Sarah Hartley
MA Design Innovation
With a focus on play, my research and design focus derives a curious sensibility; it recognises and delves into the fundamental nature of play in humans - childhood and adulthood alike. Without play, there is no joy, creativity, evolution, cognitive growth or learning. In human history, play was never meant to have an age limit, yet today's society sometimes attempts to void us of our basic need to play. My research, work and academic project's explore and advokate the relationship between humans and play, through objects and space, incporating a multidisciplinary practice across a range of CAD softwares and analogue Fine Art techniques; a unique approach that allows me to draw on my own inner child to design play-things...
