Kids can explore child-led escape rooms, make 3D-printed toys, discover the Korean colour spectrum of Obang and more through this year’s vibrant New Ideas Lab program at ArtPlay. Every year, we invite artists to propose projects for our creative arts program for children and families. Kids help choose the projects, and artists collaborate with children and families to develop the works through multiple dreaming and making sessions. Here’s what’s in store in the coming weeks and months. 1. Imagination Gamespaces Artists: Brendan Ternus, Alia Syed Rose and Shaun Wykes Children are invited to create interactive story-based ‘escape rooms’, drawing on the disciplines of game design, creative writing, visual art and performance. Participants will dream up new worlds, develop characters and stories, devise mysterious clues and tricky riddles, and design fantastical costumes and sets. The resulting ‘Gamespaces’ will feature living characters brought to life in performance by the young creators, who will introduce the work and guide audience members from clue to clue. 2. The Future of Toys Artists: Ben Paul and Jake Nakashima-Edwards Each child is invited to bring an old, much-loved toy and share stories of this toy before pulling it apart into raw materials. Children will then work with industrial designers to realise their design for a ‘future toy’ using emerging sustainable technologies of 3D scanning, printing, plastic recycling and textile re-use. This project invites children to question consumer choices associated with toys, plastic and play, and culminates in an exhibition of the ‘future toys’ and their stories. Got a pre-loved toy that you don’t play with? Donate it to The Future of Toys to give it another life. Then see what your toy has become in a special exhibition. Donate in ArtPlay’s foyer from 4 September to 4 October, Wednesdays to Sundays from 10am to 4pm. 3. … Continue reading 4 unique creative experiences for kids