PAPAN.ATAS: KITS FOR KIDS - Using the International Rescue Committee labor in post-tsunami Indonesia as inspiration, the mission of my project was to create a series of modular units that help teachers perform their lessons and facilitate other children activities. As observed in photographs provided by the IRC and other kid therapy groups, most of the lessons involve art making on a hard surface (usually on the floor), seating (if listening to stories, music or learning dances), and display (artwork, theater and music).
PAPAN.ATAS: KITS FOR KIDS - PAPAN.ATAS (in Malay, board
on top) is a kit that combines those three activities in a single piece of furniture, and offers storage space for art materials and other teaching supplies. The goal is to integrate the ÒfreedomÓ of the child friendly
environments and the conventional -and more strict- atmosphere of a school classroom in a piece of furniture that promotes communal activity and children interaction.
PAPAN.ATAS: KITS FOR KIDS - PAPAN.ATAS (THESIS PROJECT)
2005 - 2006, NYC
Parsons The New School for Design
12"x12"x10" stools (aprox) | 48"x18" table (aprox)
Birch plywood
PAPAN.ATAS: TESTING SESSION. - As part of my thesis project, I took PAPANATAS to a dayschool to test out how kids were responding to this new proposal for schools furnishing. The response couldn't be better... they loved it as a nasty double bacon cheese burger. I had the opportunity to free my "childest" side and forget about life for an entire hour. Thanks to those 5-year-old's I was able to understand the deepest thoughts of the architect Giuseppe Zambonini...
PAPAN.ATAS: TESTING SESSION - In “Notes for a Theory of Making”, Zambonini talks about a need of the new designer of adopting the “attitude of a ‘beginner’: this attitude makes possible a new learning condition, pushing
forward the limits of learning itself. It is here that one learns that the object is never totally finished; that it requires adjustment after it begins another life; that it must be used and worn to reveal the inner qualities of its material components.” This is what PAPANATAS is all about.
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SENIOR THESIS PROJECT (PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN)