Katja Runge, Author at afilii

KORA – universal design toy by Estela Segura Castellano

What if one object could be a play furniture today and piece of furniture tomorrow, for many years to come? With KORA, designer Estela Segura Castellano has created a universal design toy made of pine wood that grows with children, invites open-ended play and challenges the throwaway logic of conventional toys.

Imaginary Language – educational toy for children by Alessandra Romario

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How can a handful of wooden shapes become a language of its own? With “Imaginary Language”, Alessandra Romario transforms archetypal geometric forms into an open-ended educational toy that invites children to build, invent, name and reinvent their own worlds.

Animaze – play furniture by Studio DesignLibero

What if a puzzle could turn into a chair, a pouf — or even a rocking animal? With “Animaze”, Studio DesignLibero from Milan has created modular play furniture that invites children to build, combine, sit, store and dream.

Imagix – construction toy by Işıl Barut

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What happens when wooden shapes, ropes and fabric pieces meet a child’s imagination? With ‘Imagix’ designer Işıl Barut has created an open-ended construction toy that invites children to build, bend, and invent freely.

Ippei Takahashi about his community kindergarten in Shichigahama / Japan

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What can a kindergarten become when it is imagined as a shared place for an entire community? In Shichigahama/Japan, architect Ippei Takahashi offers a quietly radical answer: a low, open nursery shaped by its coastal surroundings, where courtyard, semi-outdoor spaces and communal areas come together to create a learning environment that feels both protective and liberating.

Floating schools in Bangladesh – Interview with Architect Mohammed Rezwan

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When floodwaters rise and roads disappear, going to school can suddenly become impossible. Architect Mohammed Rezwan responded with a radical yet simple idea: if children cannot reach the classroom, the classroom must come to them.

Luni – playful furniture by Anastasija Ribaka

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Luni is a F U N i t u r e – a toy that involves furniture functions. Colourful upholstered blocks of different shapes, that are something in the middle of Tetris blocks and animal shapes make it easy for kids to free their imagination, they can move and combine them together or use them to play with other toys.

Olabaa – architectural wooden building blocks by Adriana Salvat

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The inspiration for making small building blocks comes from the basic and important concepts in the field of architecture. The collection of play buildings wants to be a small reflection on the types of spaces that exist in the urban environment…

Cooplay – play table round by Irena Vent

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Cooplay arises as a response to the loss of contact with nature and the excessive consumption of toys during childhood. In my research I discovered many studies that pointed to the harmful effects on childhood of children spending more and more hours in enclosed spaces.

KokoLoko – playful furniture by Hana Ciliga Zadro

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KokoLoko is a bench, stool or a shelf, but at the same time a car or a doll house. A design that gives children a possibility to create a character in a playful furniture.

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