Engenhocas
Engenhocas (gizmos) is a collection of 36 toys designed as part of an educational program to bring maker culture to kids aged 3 to 5 years old. Each toy is sent in flat cardboard and is meant to be assembled to resolve a problem introduced by a story in an illustrated book, exposing the children to new ways of interacting with the world around them.
Cardboard was the main choice for this project as it is an accessible and familiar material to publishing industries that made possible to combine three-dimensional toys to the books sent to kindergartens and schools.
Maker education
Working with education, I was able to take part in planning the curriculum of STEAM and maker courses for children. That also involved a lot of hands-on work, including designing toys and structured activities to be shipped alongside the school books, as well as writing project-based learning resources for teachers and building introductory programming activities with tools like Micro:bit.
Cards and boardgames
Games can be important tools in education by requiring and stimulating the use of different skills, like communication, logic and many others. Moreover they can present and bring children’s attention to a broader range of subjects and information.
Here is a selection of games I designed as part of materials for elementary school students
Jataí chair
Developed at Novidário, it is a product aimed at educational environments to meet new demands for flexible and collaborative spaces. Its triple swivel mechanism allows the base, seat and tablet to move independently, adapting the product to different users and situations. Different configurations and layouts can be obtained with the Jataí chair, making it easy to adapt the environment according to the pedagogical activities.
Cooking classroom
This kitchen and classroom was designed for a school that required a cooking room aimed at 4 year old children where they could safely interact with their instructors while playing and learning with food. While safety was the one of the main concerns of this project, a lot of thought was given in creating a space where the communication between teachers and pupils could be facilitated and enjoyable.
Levar
Luggage loading system
Levar is a luggage loading and unloading system for commercial airplanes to be installed inside the cargo compartments.
It’s based on light materials that are structured by compressed air in a sophisticated arrangement of bags that are inflated according to the needs of the task giving the product the desired shape.
Air plays another important role as it is used to reduce friction between its surface and the luggage allowing it to slide throughout the compartment. There are 5 air bags designated to work on structure and another two that are used for spell the air from the surfaces.
It is foldable so it is easy to put in and to remove. There are some handles that need to be attached to the floor of the compartment in order to prevent the product from moving during the flight.
When Levar is used for loading the cargo compartment, only one person is needed inside the cargo compartment. This person’s job will be to organize the luggage on the top of the platform and then push all of them at once with the help of the shield and the air used to reduce friction, but before that the worker needs to turn the product on. With just one specially designed connector he is able to turn the product on and connect it to the air pump. Then he uses the easy to understand controller: he turns it to select the loading position and press the button on the center.
Interactive installation
Installation developed for the Only You exhibition by photographer Leoanardo Kossoy at Instituto Tomie Ohtake in 2014.
Using a combination of machinery that allowed visitors to reproduce and destroy photographs of the artist, the installation explored the brevity of the existence of images.
Mobi - electric bike for rental services
Urban mobility is an overwhelming topic that contains an universe in itself, and one of the major issues we experience in cities today. Through design and innovation, it is possible to make people more aware of the mobility problems we face, and more eager to develop and use systems that foster the better use of space, time and resources.
This concept was developed as a custom designed bicycle rental system for our University of Sao Paulo campus but its features make it suitable for many other situations.
