Fröbel’s StubeKISD entry for the Milano furniture fair 2014

Fröbel Stube

Fröbels Stube1.Spielgabe 4,5 ad6. Play around with them in order to create your own personal stube!

2.make some coffe for yourslef and relax

Visualization of booth

Fröbel Stube

Who was Friedrich Fröbel?:

What are Fröbels spielgabe (gifts) ?:

Concept:

was a German pedagogue, who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He created the concept of the “kindergarten”. He also developed the ed-ucational toys known as Froebel Gifts.

Fröbel advocated the importance of free play in childhood. Each of 10 gifts (Gabe) was designed to be given to a child to provide material for the child’s self-directed activity. Frank Lloyd Wright (ARCHITECT) was given a set of the Froebel blocks at about age nine, explaining that he learned the geometry of architecture. Gifts 4-5 are building gifts, simple blocks with which you can explore spatial concepts.

Create 4 of Fröbel’s spielgabe in the scale of furniture elements, allowing visitors to DIY create and ‘play’ a gute stube setting. They can make a coffee and enjoy it in the setting. They can also add a post it to the wall- a message or drawing of the process

Fröbel Stube

KISD

experimental play

Cologne (Germany)

Fröbel

The New‘Gute Stube’

DIY

learning through doing

visualizing the process

relax and enjoy

Why are we at the Fair?

Fröbel Stube

Elements of the spielgabe:

spielgabe set 3

40 cm 40 cm 40 cm

40 cm40 cm

40 cm

40 cm

40 cm

spielgabe set 4 spielgabe set 5 spielgabe set 6

Fröbel Stube

Visualization for one potential element

material: cardboard tubes-this materal allows for the elements to be light weight, and easily movable.

structure: -crossover-this allows for the strongest possible constitution of the element, using the minimal amount of material ( prototypin still necessary)

one of speiglgabe03 elements 40cm/40cm/40cmelements placed in composition

Fröbel Stube

Elements of the fair booth:

1.‘post your process’ post-it wall

2. four sets of speilgabe

3. self service coffee bar

4.explination wall

Fröbel Stube

Further questions to be considerd:-What sort of lighting do we need in order to create a atmospehre that is ‘gemutlich’

-how many sets of spielgabe do we have? Is 4 too many?

- should the spielgabe be made of cardboard rolls ( as displayed, in order to make them as light as possi-ble), or plexiglass (a material we already have)

- can the tubes be simply glued togeather or should be bind them togeather in a stronger fashion?

- Estimated costsTubes/glue/: 500 euroPost its: 100 euroPrinted Graphics for wall: 200 euroLighting: 200 euroAditional: 300 euro

total: 1300 euro

Fröbel Stube

Thank you for yor time.

We know we are a little bit late with this suggestion, but we really feel like its the one! We kindly ask you to let us try and realize it at the Milano fair.

Cheers,

Last-minute-Milano Crew