The Robot Workshop held at the Museum of Childhood in Londons Bethnal green was inspired by the tin robots of the 40’s and 50’s. With a collection of plain white boxes and a mountain of stationary we invited kids and their parents to come and create their own robots. The response was amazing, by the end of the event we had hundreds of incredible robots. From this excersise we learnt that if you want to know what a proper robot should look like you should employ a team of children, leave the parents at home, theirs were rubbish! We also learnt that children can be kept entertained with boxes and stickers much longer than we thought humanly possible.

Commisioned by the Victoria and Albert museum 2007.

In collaboration with Erin Deighton (Hasbro) and Richard Shed