Kahve Society

All projects on display are produced in collaboration with children from Headley Park Primary School in Bristol, and Raglan Junior School in London, and are derived from an earlier project about toys.

Mutant Toy Factory, display shelving and workers with T-Shirts

Mutant Toy Factory has three workstations and a display shelf. Visitors to the exhibition can bring in their own unwanted toys or use some of the broken and discarded toys collected from schools, charity shops and people across the city.

At the first workstation toys are taken apart using hacksaws, screwdrivers and hammers. It's a chance to look inside toys, see how they are made and what they are made of. But also a time to think about how you feel when you destroy a toy, and how the toy might be feeling about being discarded and now chopped up.

At the second workstation is space and tools for remaking a new, mutant toy from the parts you have collected. At the third workstation are labels for people to name their mutant and describe its characteristics. It can now be displayed on the shelf system which has become a sort of Mutant Toys 'R' Us.

Also in the space are copies of the book (Supertoys: A User's Manual), a video of the project when it was run at Headley Park Primary School, Bristol (Hello Toy!, QT movie 40MB; also archived http://www.archive.org/details/HelloToy) and a notice board of drawings and designs from the project in school.

Stewards are on hand to help and guide people, and at weekends children and young people join the Steward team to offer their expertise and knowledge of toys.

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