玩具上了學校的首頁!!

身為鄉巴佬，看到自己的作品照片被放在學校官網http://cooper.edu/的首頁感到十分開心，(左下)
而且我想以後也不容易發生了，所以要趕快print screen留念。

老師也順便把大家的東西拿去別的地方推廣了一下: http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/30704

這堂課叫做玩具建築，非常有趣，上學期我們是在做給盲人玩的玩具，
老師期中還有帶我們去一個體驗盲人生活的展覽 Dialogue in the Dark :http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/

在那2個小時之中我們都處在完全的黑暗裡，由一個盲人嚮導帶領我們，
拿著拐杖去超市買東西、搭地鐵 等等的，相當刺激好玩......... 但走丟時也難免感到一陣無助。

整個過程我都一直偷拉同學的衣角..... 這個時候嗅覺就會變得很重要，香噴噴的就是我的某女同學，我就會去黏在她旁邊。

由於這個玩具老師就是當初面試我的老師，而且應該是她擔保我的英文才讓我入學的，
所以我這堂課有格外認真，希望證明她的眼光是正確的，很高興老師最後也很喜歡我的東西。

至於那堆小物件到底在做甚麼....... ( 長話短說 ) 就是卡榫型樂高+點字系統

因為是用卡接的，所以這個玩具不會輕易被撞飛或是散開，很容易組合，
還可以拿來當作一種點字教育物件，或是立體的書寫工具，
ex: 用這個玩具組一首詩之類的，將抽象的語言以及實體造型做結合
or 用這個玩具組一個物件以後，送給一個盲人請他拆解開來以後猜猜看物件背後的文字意義

總之，有很多種玩的方法，是一般人與盲人都可以玩的東西。

來修這堂課的同學還有美術系跟工程系的，大家做的玩具類型都很不一樣，給了我很多想像力，以後建築師當不成就去作玩具設計應該也是很有意思，呵呵!

At the beginning of this project, for helping students further understand the world of blindness, Professor Zinger took us to an exhibition: Dialogue in the Dark, which is an experience in total darkness, led by blind guides and trainers, one learns to interact and communicate by relying on other senses. At the end of the exhibition, we asked our guide about how they play with toys. The blind guide said she doesn’t play with architecture toys; she likes playing with toy cars and using cars to bump walls. Her answer makes me think about that if we have to design architecture toy for blind people, I should make the toy hard to throw down and can be rotated with their hands. That’s the reason I started my toy with joinable shape. Later, other classmates noticed my toy elements look like an alphabet, and then I started to combine the Braille system into my joinable elements. Finally, my architecture toy can be played with in multiple ways: construction mode, construction speed competition mode, writing mode, identification mode.