Hollowness 心远地自偏

Course

Toy Design and Prototyping

Type

Toy design

Rapid prototyping

Time

2021

Hollowness 心远地自偏 is a splicing toy. It is divided into two parts: the Mountain and the Town. For the Mountain part, it is a representation of the fulfillment of one’s inner world. For the Town part, the player can act as a town planner. The toy intends to tell the player that while the rich material life seems enjoyable, but one can also have a pleasant life if they have a content inner peace.

The toy can serve as an educational purpose in visualizing the Chinese poem. It can also be a decoration after the player customizes both the mountain and the town.

By playing with the toy, one can exercise their hand-mind coordination since they need to build up the architectures. Also, the toy exercises the player’s creativity which they can design both the mountain and the town.

Hollowness is organize-friendly. The components are stored separately in bags. The toy itself can turn into a storage box. Also, there is a bag that has plenty of space to store other toy-related stuff in it.