Beirut Designer Creates Body Blocks Wooden Toy for Children to Explore Body Image Concepts
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Alyn Griffiths
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
Beirut designer Davina Atallah has created Body Blocks, a wooden stacking toy system that allows children to explore body image concepts through interchangeable heads, torsos, and bottoms. The design adapts traditional stacking blocks to help children understand body diversity and representation by creating different characters through flipping and stacking components.
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· 3 pulledBeirut designer Davina Atallah has adapted the familiar typology of stacking blocks to create a wooden toy that allows children to explore complex ideas around body image.
Atallah's Body Blocks system comprises painted beechwood heads, torsos and bottoms that can be stacked and flipped to create different characters.
Davina Atallah has created a system of stacking wooden blocks that allows children to explore complex ideas around body image.
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