Refining our intent and currently we are at a point where we narrowed down our deliverables down to 3 options.
1) an educational toy/teaching aid: We want to put our own spin on the traditional alphabet book. Our concept is that, since children respond best to interactive learning more than the top down by rote mechanisms (this we observed from our time at the schools), we would try to design a toy, like building blocks or a jigsaw puzzle which would enable them to learn the vernacular alphabets/numbers/etc in a more of a problem solving approach, and also give them a co-ordination challenge.
2)a book on vernacular semiotics: we also want to design a more interesting and fun book on various local semiotics and connections made from it. it is very important for children to know the basic signs and symbols, and it is better to introduce to them all of this at this stage rather than waiting for them to discover all of it by themselves( if at all) at a later date.
3)environmental info graphics: we would finally like to tackle about three areas of the schools we have researched in to develop sign-age which is simple and effective.
Our idea is also that we want to involve the children of the school in this process so, we have planned a workshop in the school for 2 days which will be a drawing workshop related to their basic lesson plans, the out come of which we are planning to use in our final product, so that it will give an instant connect to the children.
a small section of references that we are looking at:
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