Threesixty
Collaboration with Desmond Wong, Stephanie Sauve, Kateryna Yanova, and Janice Wu
2008 | Interactive Children's Toy
Baltic birch
Threesixty encourages children to use their imaginations in conjunction with wooden components and found materials such as cardboard and blankets to create forts, puppet theaters, art galleries, or any other type of personal spaces a child could imagine. Blankets could be hung from wooden dowels that slide into holes in the wood, and cardboard is wedged into slits in the wood. Together, these form the skeletal structure for space-building. The wooden pieces also can be connected on their own to form creations. They are large enough to form sturdy spaces, but small enough for a child of six or seven to handle quite easily.
The idea is to provide the means to create different spaces, and when it is time to clean up, the blankets and cardboard come down, and all of the wooden pieces tuck nicely away.
Threesixty encourages recycling by engaging children with one of the most popular toys of all time: the cardboard box. Cardboard boxes weren’t created as toys, yet they have become incredible toys and have cultivated creativity and imagination. Threesixty increases the box’s potential for play. The wooden connectors serve as a tool to link found and recycled cardboard pieces together for fort and space building.
