Creations to make their way from Emily Carr classroom to South Sudan refugee camp
A class of second-year design students at Emily Carr University are waiting with anticipation to see if their inventions will be manufactured and sent to a refugee settlement in South Sudan.
This year, though, the non-profit’s founder and CEO, Reza Marvasti, wanted to do something a little different. He has spent a lot of time in South Sudan in recent years and seen the impacts of civil war and ethnic violence there. Too often, Marvasti said, children are being forced into becoming soldiers or labourers or being trafficked for sex.
“The idea of kids not playing and never having the opportunity to play is kind of alien to us, it’s hard to comprehend. But this is what is happening.” The design also had to be durable, manufacturable and made primarily of plywood. And, it had to be completed in about eight weeks. The six other design teams – or studios, as Blyt calls them – came up with other forms of play. One studio invented a kind of balance board, which up to four people can collectively use to move a ball through a maze located at the centre. Another of the trios created a large-scale spinning top, while a different group incorporated stone tossing with balance.
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