https://wunderkinderkammer.childculturedesign.com/

Wunderkinderkammer is a proposal, a group project made with Studio Childish (Irvandy Syafruddin) and Fredrik Stjernqvist.


_{"...Created in an intersection of our backgrounds, experiences, ideas and curiosities. The idea of the wunderkammer (“a cabinet or a room of curiosities'') meets the wunderkind (a successful, miraculous child) to create a whole new concept. Unlike the traditional cabinet of curiosities, which used to be a symbol of expression of colonial ideology and money and power, Wunderkinderkammer symbolizes miraculous findings of a child, any child. We believe that all children are worthy of admiring, and are at the same time collectors of the curiosities from their journey: a. through time - by growing up and b. through space - in the urban surroundings."}

To find out more about children’s walking habits and to get more empathic data, I used cultural probes as one of the research methods. The probes were sent in the form of newsletters, due to the current distancing orders but also to compare the needs in the two cities: Gothenburg and Berlin. Each day, one design task was sent to the children's parents, in a newsletter “Junior design challenge”. The results have not only informed me of the children’s perception of the streets, but were also motivation for children to go out and explore their neighbourhood.

Results of cultural probe, made by a 9 year old boy in Berlin

THROUGH INTERACTION AND ARTISTIC EXPLORATION
Outcome of  two workshops with children: What is fun? What is dangerous? (in the street traffic and in the neighbourhood). This informed the project of the local children's needs, wishes and worries. The final gathered results were presented in an exhibition, held at Galleri Rotor2, HDK-Valand.

2019

Student project, HDK-Valand, GU
Göteborg, Sweden

Soundground is an individual, student project aiming to create a "safe and sound" ground for exploring both loud and soft play activities for children. It is a play-space in nature, but not necessarily with nature, created especially for children who are not yet used to the unknown depths of grass, playing with bugs and "asphalt-free" zones.  As a transit space, from a city environment to a wilderness of nature, it is for children that want to explore different scales and dynamics of play: from soft, quiet play to loud play. The green- soft side- of the wall contains shelves, sandpit, hanging plant-pots and hiding space, while the red -loud side- contains metal pots, plastic tubes and other up-cycled instruments for a musical play. 

Created for Eco Agroforestry Center in Linnarhult Project, Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Mural Workshop: Endangered Species of the Adriatic Sea

2011
Central Bus Station Sibenik
The International Children's Festival

Sibenik, Croatia

One of several workshops I held at the Children's Festival was a mural workshop, which involved painting the south wall of the Sibenik’s main bus station together with a group of 15 children. The wall was painted with images of endangered species of the Adriatic Sea. The mural still exists today, many years later and it is a beloved hang-out place of the local citizens.