AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education
KEYWORDS
Gamified Education, Open Education Resources, intercultural, cultural diversity, education school kits
COUNTRY
Republic of Korea
DESIGNED BY
Team of Seoul Design Governance
WEBSITE
https://design.seoul.go.kr/sdg/project/341
CookCookCokCok
Intercultural education board game for all students with different cultural family backgrounds.
This design was developed for students with cross-cultural family backgrounds, suffering from discrimination in Korean society. Korea has reached an era of 1 million cross-cultural families and 200,000 students with this backgrounds. Currently, however, public education in Korea is mainly focused on one-way education that helps children from cross-cultural families adapt well to Korean culture.
CookCookCokCok is a board game for intercultural education whose theme is ‘foods all around the world’, which was designed to be practical in an official public education. While playing, students can naturally learn ‘cultural diversity’ and ‘intercultural sensibility’ through direct touch and interaction. Also, teachers can draw natural discussion through the educational workbook which is provided with. It was distributed to 80 elementary schools in Seoul for free and is being utilized. It provides both teachers and students with the most enjoyable and instructive class without precedent.