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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
Laura Valls answers the call from the URJC from Stockholm. This young woman is doing internships in the design sector in the Swedish capital. She comments that receiving this third prize has made her "very happy and, above all, it has given me a lot of motivation to continue with the project and carry out other ideas."
play developing skills
Laura's award-winning project is called 'Stratea'. It is a board game based on a classic system: turns, squares and cards. Each of the cards that are revealed when passing through a certain box asks the player to perform a test related to the following skills: motor, socio-emotional and cognitive. As Laura Valls explains, "it's not about winning, the goal is for children to be able to carry out the actions of the game autonomously or with the help of educators and family members." The game has been especially valued by the jury of the 'Acento G Awards', for the quality of the design and the social impact by providing a valuable tool to people with a specific need.
The third prize that Laura has won is made up of a set of Winsor & Newton brand illustration products worth €300, a full subscription to Adobe CC, a year's subscription to Gràffica magazine (4 issues from winner is announced. The first issue will be March 2021), and an XP-PEN Deco 01 v2-LINE FRIENDS tablet.
'Stratea' is born from the TFG that Laura presented at the end of her degree in which a lack of accessible and 'friendly' resources for these minors with ASD was detected. Now, to take the next steps with 'Stratea', Laura Valls is talking to special education associations and schools to test it in those environments and produce a few copies.
“They have taught us to move”
Laura Valls, asked why she would stand out from her time at URJC, mainly points out that “the degree's methodology, although it was complicated at first, has taught us to move and find life for ourselves”. The young designer highlights the good classmates and teachers she has had.
Looking to the future, Laura Valls would like to stay in Sweden. “It catches my attention to try to combine design with education. An unknown interest that the project and my experience here have awakened in me”, she points out. This young woman, in addition to carrying out Design internships, works as a teacher at a school in Stockholm.