Papili Zero Waste.
Seeing treasure where adults see waste.
Role: Service designer, visual identity, workshop set-up,
making everyone laugh · Duration: 3 mo · Format:
Group project (with Sarah R, Juliet D) · Where: Paris Design Week
& La Cité des Sciences.
The idea
Papili's tribe is a workshop that brings environmental awareness to children by involving them in the paper-upcycling process — building the cabane, imagining and making their recycled masks, and participating in immersive stories that make them care for the planet.
The process
We followed the typical design process, mixed with our intuition:
Desktop research → User research → User workshops → Analysing → Ideation → Having fun → Development → Validate.
The players
- 4 y/o — symbolic game.
- 10 y/o — geometric, mathematical and construction challenge.
The bigger picture
We thought about scaling beyond a single workshop. The ingredients are already there: cabanes are pre-imagined; big-scale, free paper waste is everywhere; the playhouse experience is collective; and children's best memories of play are collaborative.
What shipped
A three-month project that became part of the Cabanes exhibition in Paris at La Cité des Sciences — children learned more and played longer when they participated in building the playhouse.
The toolkit
Adobe Illustrator · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe AfterEffects · Adobe Premiere Pro · Laser cutter · Paper waste · A workshop space.