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[Applause]
thank you thanks hi so happy to be here
I’m Wei Wei and I’m gonna talk to you
about play today and how play relates to
a creative expression and to begin is
the best – I’ll show you a little game
that I always play with my kids with
anybody and during this TEDx youth
intermission we were able to you my some
teachers and kids to play this little
game so basically over here you see is
Lego and the game is very easy under one
minute you use the six Lego bricks to
make a duck right and here’s one of them
right and in our short five minutes we
have 20 ducks right and then they’re all
different so to tell you a little truth
with the six piece Lego bricks you can
actually make over 300 different ducks
right and this is exactly how you could
play and create and likes we have a Lego
brick everybody knows is a 2 by 4 right
so how many of you can tell me with two
a stud Lego bricks how what’s the
possibility of a combination you can
make anybody yeah yeah 24 so with – a
stud Legos you can make 24 combination
so the challenge comes right if you have
one more Lego brick how many do you make
I will tell you this is 1060 and even
crazier six of the same a stud Lego
bricks you can make 950 million possible
combinations and you add one more is
infinity so
every children every tile that
experience Lego they experience infinity
and this is what I call open play so let
me go back a little bit I tell you why
I’m here today
I play architecture and you must ask how
would you play architecture right and so
I will rewind a little bit tell you a
little bit about myself I was born like
a lot of you guys I’m a bilingual right
I was born in Beijing and raised to move
to the United States when I was 13 years
old and over there I got my education
and I was trained as an architect and
after graduation friends and my we
together create a foundation that’s
called people’s architecture foundation
and with people’s architecture what we
did is we curated exhibitions in
relation to architecture urbanism and
design and arts so anything that you can
think of that deal with the creative
aspect of architecture so in 2006 is
when I actually first encounter Lego
professionally during 2006 we invited 13
leading Asian Pacific architects to use
custom Lego kits to build Lego models
was this intention to have them to
address at the time it was a Asian
economic crisis so at the time to have
them to use Lego models to a give a
creative expression of their
understanding of urban preservation
heritage and ba architecture so over
here you see is called plantain is a
model of design and build by map office
it’s actually a representation of
globalization so all the LEGO pieces you
see they represent containers and
production units and actually
specifically planned into its specific
locality so this is
what I call serious play but everything
changed when I became a mom 10 years ago
I had my child and my son and my
daughter and raising my children and
play with them really give me a entire
new perspective about how to play and
the relationship was creative expression
so my son Kai his favorite playtime is
asking questions and challenging me and
negotiating with me right like a lot of
you and then one day dawned on me wait a
minute my son didn’t ask me questions to
seek answers he actually asked questions
so that I can think and discover with
him so next time if your child or your
student asks you questions like why does
the Sun moves with you instead of
telling them the entire story about the
relationship with the moon and the Sun
and the planet and the universe you
might just ask back well do you think
the moon moves with you too my
daughter’s favorite play is actually
role play if he/she goes to dentist
she’d get her teeth cleaned and she
comes home she’s super serious like mom
I got a fine mask I got a fine gloves I
got to find tools and tweezers I gotta
clean my dolls teeth so from her
roleplay
I understood children’s way of being and
social engagement is Ashley through
playing is from learning the thoughts
from TVs and social medias so I had the
opportunity to play with my children and
learn from them and then last week I had
the great opportunity to play with some
adults in Hubei Province and Hebei
Province I was invited as a specialist
to participate in the China poverty
reduction program because over there’s
annually a family can only earn about
2,000 rmv so it’s really consider in
poverty situation
so over there we play to tell stories
because we can’t really teach them much
what we could do is actually through
playing they can tell us stories about
them and story about the place that they
live and create a channel between them
and the outside world so over here you
have a the party member right and then
part of our curriculum we ask them to
build self portrait and for this guy
yeah she built the war against Japanese
because his title was I was a soldier
and the knifes piece is houses on wheels
it’s actually a piece by a kid and we
asked them to build their home so this
kid tells us his house is on wheels
because he moves all the time and he
doesn’t really get to see his parents a
lot and for him the most important
concept about home is Ashley memories
his memories left with all the places
that he has been so through these
stories we learn about people we learn
about where they are and how they live
so play is tell stories and last but not
least it’s actually playing with lots
and lots and lots of people together and
create together is one of my favorite so
this is a a power plan at Beijing’s
7520 Park this plan it was created in
1970s and for 30 years in Beijing this
power plant supply facing one-third
energy and with the new energies
technology and we have more
environmental energy resources so these
kind of industrial places is no longer
in function but they sits there
beautifully right so what we did is we
invite the public to come to visit the
power plant so for a stretch of entire
month we give classes we build we tell
stories we play with children and the
public and
then in the end we used all the model
that they created to put inside the
power plant to put inside the steel
forest why to have people think about
where we come from and then to
understand why we’re here and to imagine
the future and the Indian children play
and they discover and they learn so this
is play to discover in the end I will
leave you with this it’s not about what
you do it’s actually the attitude you
have when you’re doing that play is uh
it’s a frame of mind it’s actually a
creative channel a natural channel to
creative expression so play is telling
stories and play is changing rules is
asking questions and play is productive
and play it’s open and social and it can
be really serious too so Indian have fun
and keep on playing thank
[Applause]
[Applause]
thank you thanks hi so happy to be here
I’m Wei Wei and I’m gonna talk to you
about play today and how play relates to
a creative expression and to begin is
the best – I’ll show you a little game
that I always play with my kids with
anybody and during this TEDx youth
intermission we were able to you my some
teachers and kids to play this little
game so basically over here you see is
Lego and the game is very easy under one
minute you use the six Lego bricks to
make a duck right and here’s one of them
right and in our short five minutes we
have 20 ducks right and then they’re all
different so to tell you a little truth
with the six piece Lego bricks you can
actually make over 300 different ducks
right and this is exactly how you could
play and create and likes we have a Lego
brick everybody knows is a 2 by 4 right
so how many of you can tell me with two
a stud Lego bricks how what’s the
possibility of a combination you can
make anybody yeah yeah 24 so with – a
stud Legos you can make 24 combination
so the challenge comes right if you have
one more Lego brick how many do you make
I will tell you this is 1060 and even
crazier six of the same a stud Lego
bricks you can make 950 million possible
combinations and you add one more is
infinity so
every children every tile that
experience Lego they experience infinity
and this is what I call open play so let
me go back a little bit I tell you why
I’m here today
I play architecture and you must ask how
would you play architecture right and so
I will rewind a little bit tell you a
little bit about myself I was born like
a lot of you guys I’m a bilingual right
I was born in Beijing and raised to move
to the United States when I was 13 years
old and over there I got my education
and I was trained as an architect and
after graduation friends and my we
together create a foundation that’s
called people’s architecture foundation
and with people’s architecture what we
did is we curated exhibitions in
relation to architecture urbanism and
design and arts so anything that you can
think of that deal with the creative
aspect of architecture so in 2006 is
when I actually first encounter Lego
professionally during 2006 we invited 13
leading Asian Pacific architects to use
custom Lego kits to build Lego models
was this intention to have them to
address at the time it was a Asian
economic crisis so at the time to have
them to use Lego models to a give a
creative expression of their
understanding of urban preservation
heritage and ba architecture so over
here you see is called plantain is a
model of design and build by map office
it’s actually a representation of
globalization so all the LEGO pieces you
see they represent containers and
production units and actually
specifically planned into its specific
locality so this is
what I call serious play but everything
changed when I became a mom 10 years ago
I had my child and my son and my
daughter and raising my children and
play with them really give me a entire
new perspective about how to play and
the relationship was creative expression
so my son Kai his favorite playtime is
asking questions and challenging me and
negotiating with me right like a lot of
you and then one day dawned on me wait a
minute my son didn’t ask me questions to
seek answers he actually asked questions
so that I can think and discover with
him so next time if your child or your
student asks you questions like why does
the Sun moves with you instead of
telling them the entire story about the
relationship with the moon and the Sun
and the planet and the universe you
might just ask back well do you think
the moon moves with you too my
daughter’s favorite play is actually
role play if he/she goes to dentist
she’d get her teeth cleaned and she
comes home she’s super serious like mom
I got a fine mask I got a fine gloves I
got to find tools and tweezers I gotta
clean my dolls teeth so from her
roleplay
I understood children’s way of being and
social engagement is Ashley through
playing is from learning the thoughts
from TVs and social medias so I had the
opportunity to play with my children and
learn from them and then last week I had
the great opportunity to play with some
adults in Hubei Province and Hebei
Province I was invited as a specialist
to participate in the China poverty
reduction program because over there’s
annually a family can only earn about
2,000 rmv so it’s really consider in
poverty situation
so over there we play to tell stories
because we can’t really teach them much
what we could do is actually through
playing they can tell us stories about
them and story about the place that they
live and create a channel between them
and the outside world so over here you
have a the party member right and then
part of our curriculum we ask them to
build self portrait and for this guy
yeah she built the war against Japanese
because his title was I was a soldier
and the knifes piece is houses on wheels
it’s actually a piece by a kid and we
asked them to build their home so this
kid tells us his house is on wheels
because he moves all the time and he
doesn’t really get to see his parents a
lot and for him the most important
concept about home is Ashley memories
his memories left with all the places
that he has been so through these
stories we learn about people we learn
about where they are and how they live
so play is tell stories and last but not
least it’s actually playing with lots
and lots and lots of people together and
create together is one of my favorite so
this is a a power plan at Beijing’s
7520 Park this plan it was created in
1970s and for 30 years in Beijing this
power plant supply facing one-third
energy and with the new energies
technology and we have more
environmental energy resources so these
kind of industrial places is no longer
in function but they sits there
beautifully right so what we did is we
invite the public to come to visit the
power plant so for a stretch of entire
month we give classes we build we tell
stories we play with children and the
public and
then in the end we used all the model
that they created to put inside the
power plant to put inside the steel
forest why to have people think about
where we come from and then to
understand why we’re here and to imagine
the future and the Indian children play
and they discover and they learn so this
is play to discover in the end I will
leave you with this it’s not about what
you do it’s actually the attitude you
have when you’re doing that play is uh
it’s a frame of mind it’s actually a
creative channel a natural channel to
creative expression so play is telling
stories and play is changing rules is
asking questions and play is productive
and play it’s open and social and it can
be really serious too so Indian have fun
and keep on playing thank
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