Design-ish Portfolio

Word map: play-based learning

work explorations

work explorations

work explorations

work explorations

work explorations

work explorations

work explorations

Tinkering with cranks & contraptions at the LEGO Idea Conference

Automata experiments

Designing Workshop materials

The Automata kit

Testing movements of a triangular cam

Testing movements of an eccentric circular cam

Testing movements of a flower cam

Testing movements of a snail cam

Testing movements of a hexagonal cam

Testing movements of an oval cam

Workshop: The automata atelier (1)

Workshop: The automata atelier (2)

Children participating in the automata workshops

The atelier evolves with the particpants

Automata play-workshops

Children participating in the automata workshops (2)

Children participating in the automata workshops (3)

Children participating in the automata workshops (4)

Automata contraptions designed by the participants (1)

Automata contraptions designed by participants (2)

Automata contraptions designed by participants (3)

Automata contraptions designed by participants (4)

Participants testing and fine-tuning their contraptions (1)

Participants testing and fine-tuning their contraptions (2)

Potentiality of Play

PhD. Project

(Edinburgh Napier University)

My PhD research project ‘The Potentiality of Play’, is driven by complementary methods of Design Ethnography and Research through Design.

13 service design workshops were undertaken at the Museum of Childhood and the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, where children designed and constructed some amazing Automata toys, by employing 21st-century literacies of exploration, tinkering, and prototyping. The automata were used as a design idiom to comprehend an understanding of geometry and various shapes.