Year: 2019
Typology: Product, education
“Imaginary Language” has been featured in Dezeen and other online magazine; It has been nominated for Kids Design Award 2019 and the KI award 2019
“Imaginary language”
Imaginary language is a tool to foster creativity.
According to Irving Biderman’s theory of psychology, the human brain recognizes objects by isolating them into basic geometrical forms named “Geons.” People are able to assign functional meanings to abstract forms by projecting their own socio-cultural experiential knowledge onto them. This project’s intervention relies on this skill.
Imaginary language is composed of archetypical geometric forms that can be combined to create undefined and open-ended objects. Children, actors and those who wish to improve their imagination can use it to boost their expressive inner potential.For children, the work presents a new way to materialise their fantasy, an activity that stimulates them towards developing spatial and social skills. Actors, with these objects, can train their improvisation skills, giving substance to the narrative contexts they usually envision with their simple bodies.
In a hyper-functional society where too often there’s no space to see alternative realities, Imaginary Language is a portal to envision new ones.
