Progress Report 2012 - Lego
Progress Report 2012 - Lego
Progress Report 2012 - Lego
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FOCUS<br />
Understanding<br />
how toys<br />
establish social<br />
relations<br />
The LEGO Learning Institute is part<br />
of the LEGO Foundation and has<br />
the ambition to bring academic<br />
knowledge and insight to new<br />
audiences, while at the same time<br />
generating helpful feedback for the<br />
people who design and build the<br />
LEGO ® play experiences. Over the<br />
years a profound understanding of<br />
how children learn and play has been<br />
accumulated.<br />
In <strong>2012</strong>, the LEGO Learning Institute<br />
started out as collaborator in an EU<br />
research network that consists of 13<br />
European research institutes, clinical<br />
centres and private enterprises which<br />
span the biomedical sciences and the<br />
humanities. The EU network focuses<br />
on the ways in which objects and toys<br />
create a shared meaning between<br />
people. This includes an investigation<br />
of how toddlers and young children<br />
understand toys, objects and cultural<br />
artefacts and the links between play<br />
objects and social relations. The LEGO<br />
Learning Institute facilitated workshops<br />
with the academic experts to discuss<br />
how the LEGO System as a creative<br />
medium, can be used to support<br />
collaboration among people.
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