Shipbuilding game
The shipbuilding game is a construction kit that consists of 22 parts for the small shipbuilding game and 39 parts for the large shipbuilding game . It was designed by the artisan Alma Siedhoff-Buscher in 1923 and 1924 at the Bauhaus . The Little Shipbuilding Game is one of her most important works at the Bauhaus and is still in production today.
description
The two construction sets consist of different wooden elements. They can be put together in any way, including a sailing ship . The wooden parts are set in bright, cheerful colors, with the Bauhaus colors red, yellow and blue being complemented by green and white. The parts of the Little Shipbuilding Game are puzzled together to form a closed cuboid that fits into the box of the game.
The game is described on packaging from the Bauhaus Archive as: "Building game: a ship that can also be a mountain railway, a door, an animal and much more." Alma Siedhoff-Buscher herself described the ship building game as follows:
- "It doesn't want to be anything - no cubism, no expressionism, just a fun play of colors made of smooth and angular shapes based on the principle of the old building blocks."
history
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher developed functional furniture and toys suitable for children at the Bauhaus . The little shipbuilding game was created for the children's room in the model house Am Horn , which she designed together with Erich Brendel in Weimar in 1923 . It was made in the Bauhaus wood carving workshop; painted in the mural workshop. The kit corresponded to Walter Gropius ' demand for attractive and at the same time industrially manufacturable products. The small shipbuilding game has been produced as a re-edition by the Swiss manufacturer Naef since 1977.
Educational benefit and evaluation
The shipbuilding game is an open play system in which the child is not told what to do with the various wooden elements. Freedoms are left that stimulate creativity and imagination. Such a pedagogical concept was fundamentally new when the game was created in the 1920s, and Alma Buscher was way ahead of her time. With the shipbuilding game she succeeded in developing a child-friendly toy that also offers the possibility of imitation with the building elements.
Web links
- Description of the shipbuilding game at bauhaus100.de
- Photos of the shipbuilding game with packaging
- Photos from the shipbuilding game
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bauhaus designer Alma Siedhoff-Buscher at Deutschlandfunk on September 25, 2019