Fabricación digital aplicado al diseño lúdico – didáctico. Caso de estudio: objetos lúdico-didácticos para el desarrollo de habilidades psicomotrices de los niños/as del Albergue Padre Julio Villarroel O. De la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

Digital fabrication gives endless possibilities to design. Then, following the purposes of Fab Kids, whose objective is to develop series of projects where kids can create, stimulate their intelligence, creativity and imagination through these technologies and tools of digital fabrication. This project pretends to generate knowledge and innovation to consolidate skills acquired in the classrooms of our prestigious university, and to close the relationship between theory and practice, this through prototyping seeking to contribute to the development of school-age children who attend to "PADRE JULIO VILLARROEL O." refuge in Loja city". The research was made through interviews, bibliographic searches, experimentation, prototyping of ludic didactic objects in the fabrication laboratory Fab Lab UTPL, and the development of a workshop where children designed in a participative way, making them involving with technologies and tools of digital fabrication. This contributed to the development of their mathematical and psychomotor skills.