Mecanno on MoC
In 1974, almost 100 years after its building was finished, the MoC had its direction dedicated to the subject of childhood. Alongside the Museum’s existing toy collection, the space features collections of children’s costume, books, nursery items, art and furniture. Searching for toys references and history I found their very complete website. There I found, between other things, a Moving Toys section were you can see how old are toys that offers some sort of mechanical reaction. The whole website is worthy to explore. The collections looks great! Quite stimulating. I haven’t been there yet, but it seems that they do a good job in accomplishing their goal:
The V&A Museum of Childhood aims to encourage everyone to explore the themes of childhood past and present and develop an appreciation of creative design through our inspirational collections and programmes.
WHY: Motion in toys isn’t new. Technology can add a new dimention to it, but I like to keep an eye on how early toys already have some responsive behaviour, allowing surprise and discovery. How the child interaction can change its behaviour. If we assume that interaction design is a discipline that concerns about design product responses and behave, the moving toys section gives a good clue about movements that could be used by a chid without asking for cognitive overload (with labels and menus, for instance)
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