AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education
KEYWORDS
games, tolerance, education
COUNTRY
France
DESIGNED BY
M.O.T.S was initiated by the designer Juliette Pépin as her graduation project in Man and Communication at the Design Academy Eindhoven (June 2016).
Juliette Pépin is now a multidisciplinary designer working in Belgium, France, and Netherlands. Specialized in communication and contextual design, she is also the creative director and co-founder of the Brussels-based design gallery Fracas. She worked for Intégral Ruedi Baur, Onomatopée and other studios/ cultural institutions with a high focus on cultural and contextual relevancy.
WEBSITE
http://www.m-o-t-s.net
M.O.T.S
M.O.T.S are a game set and method designed to initiate children to language and cultural diversity
M.O.T.S are an educational game set and method which aim is to trigger children about the plurality of languages and therefore introduce the concept of diversity in preschools. It was developed in close collaboration with Marcel Cachin Preschool, teacher Cécile Mohamadi and her class of 5 years old, Education Counselor Elisabeth Schirmer, and psychologist Martine Daniel.
The game set is made of different known educative tools. From stencils to stamps, children can play with a multitude of different traditional games displaying different alphabets and idioms. The games are modular and the laser-cut technique enables them to be customized according to the need of its user (language, material, and ergonomy choice).
It is now used within workshops around language awareness meant for children between 5 and 7 years old.
MOTS won the Social Design Talent Award 2016 (Gemeente Eindhoven) and will be developed in Brabant Preschools (Eindhoven).
