Let’s Charrette x Top Bright Competition 2024

On May 10, 2024, with the conclusion of the presentation day, the 2024 Let’s Charrette X TopBright, a design competition jointly hosted by the Michael Graves College of Architecture and Design and the Top Bright Animation Co., Ltd., successfully concluded at GHK Hall.

This year, Top Bright Animation Co., Ltd., in collaboration with the Let’s Charrette competition at Michael Graves College of Architecture and Design, jointly launched a conceptual design competition to support Wenzhou’s child-friendly city vision by integrating industry, academia, and research. Focusing on educational toys and child-friendly facilities as creative subjects, this competition seeks to tap into the youthful creativity of university students to propose ideas that resonate with childhood dreams. 80 students from 14 teams from Michael Graves College,  College of Business and Public Management, College of Science, Mathematics and Technology, and College of Liberal Arts participated in the competition.

The winners

After a careful evaluation by the jury members, teams “SOUNDPICKER”,  “āáà”, and “Mumino” stood out because of their remarkable design concepts, professional design solutions, and excellent presentation.

First Prize

SOUNDPICKER 

Team Members ：吴靖宇 刘尚桦 张博钧 刘燕茜 陈俊羲

Mentor: Yinxuan ZHOU (Tom)

SOUNDPICKER is an innovative children’s toy aimed at guiding children to leave electronic products more and explore more possibilities in nature, leaving precious memories. We found through research that sound is of great significance for children’s enlightenment education. Currently, the Steam children’s toy market related to sound has not been fully developed in the market. Encouraging children to personally enter nature, record sound, and make toys for collection or interaction with friends is even more blank. Therefore, we have created SOUNDPICKER. SOUNDPICKER consists of three products: a recording disc, a player, and a storage box. Children can easily carry a recording disc, which can be recorded by pressing a button. Hollow areas on the disc also support hanging. Wherever (such as branches), To record the sounds of those timid birds. After recording these sounds, children can put the recording disc on the player, play memories of beautiful stories through Bluetooth, and stimulate their love for nature. The recorded recording disc can be placed in a storage box to accompany children’s childhood forever.

Second Prize

āáà  Team

Team Members ：高舒宁 叶云熙 蒋可可 秦栋廷

Mentor: Yinxuan ZHOU (Tom)

āáà is a new children’s oral care brand that aims to help children between the ages of 3 and 6 develop good brushing habits in a fun and educational way. Our core product is a smart electric toothbrush with advanced plaque detection. The toothbrush interacts in real-time with the screen while the child is brushing his/her teeth, providing a fun and engaging game that guides the child to learn how to brush his/her teeth correctly and develop good brushing habits. āáà is committed to the cutting-edge areas of habit development, artificial intelligence, and tangible interaction and are striving to take the lead in the early childhood education market. We are actively exploring the trend of intelligence and gamification to provide innovative solutions for children’s growth and, at the same time, open up a broad space for the development of the enterprise. Meanwhile, based in Wenzhou, we will make full use of local industrial resources, practice the concept of a “child-friendly city”, promote the cause of oral health and social responsibility, and realize the common progress of enterprise and society.

Third Prize

Mumino Team

Team Members ：邓丁洋 闫子昕 高梓赫 王琛博 徐骏晖 李子扬

Mentor: Yuanbo JIANG (Trico)

Mumino is an innovative interactive toy that uses magnets to connect buttons to power supplies, and has been specially designed to “record” so that children can enjoy the basic scales while also creating any sound around them. This design not only allows children to have fun in musical exploration, but also cultivates their hands-on skills and logical thinking skills. Each button of Mumino can be combined freely, and children can put together and combine according to their own preferences and creativity, thus developing their imagination and creativity. At the same time, the design of this free combination also promotes children’s interaction with music, improves their musical sense, and helps to discover and cultivate their musical talent. Through Mumino, children are not only able to enjoy music, but also to unconsciously enhance their abilities and potential in the process of playing.

Jury Members 

Zheng Xiaodong, Ph.D, Vice-Chancellor, WKU

Kongxi Huang, Vice-President, Top Bright Animation Co., Ltd.

Yaoyao Huang, Associate Professor, Executive Director, Michael Graves College

Vincent Peu Duvallon, Associate Professor, Executive Director, Michael Graves College

Manuel Divino, Coordinator, Lecture, Interior Design program, Kean-University

Joeri Reynaert, Founder of JRS Product Design Studio

XIan Pan, Founder of ICCO MONTESSORI SCHOOL