Tag: gender

DQC - Week 4 - Betsy Anderson

While reading Fröbel’s Forgotten Gift I did not get the impression that any of the 20 toys and activities he created had distinctively male or female  features. All of the toys and activities seemed to be fairly gender-neutral and over time have inspired very gender specific toys like Legos and sewing activities. In Barbie Girls and… Read more DQC - Week 4 - Betsy Anderson

GoldieBlox Review and Redesign

GoldieBlox is an engineering toy set paired with stories about a female engineer named Goldie. The founder, Debbie Sterling, launched the company in 2012 after finding a lack of good construction toys available for girls. She found that when girls played with construction toys, they typically got bored quickly and prefered make-believe activities. This motivated… Read more GoldieBlox Review and Redesign

Week 4: Fröbel's Forgotten Gift

In reading “Fröbel’s Forgotten Gift…,” I couldn’t help but remember Barbie Fashion Designer from my own childhood. I didn’t own the game, but I begged my friend Victoria to play whenever I was at her house. As I recall, it was a fairly open-ended design project, though firmly within the Barbie world of “Dream Date”… Read more Week 4: Fröbel's Forgotten Gift

Parasocial Activity: Lisa G's Character

Lisa Simpson seems particularly poignant as a character that informed my identity in my early life. Like the Simpsons, my family had three children, an older brother, middle child named Lisa, and a younger baby sister. I related to Lisa because we had the same names and were both full of anxiety directed towards our family… Read more Parasocial Activity: Lisa G's Character