A classic theory of cognitive development says that as a kid grows up, her sense of membership in the world grows outward. A new app from Tinybop Inc encourages that growing worldview. Recommended for ages four and up, “Homes” invites open-ended exploration of how kids “live, sleep, eat, and play in unique households around the world”: A Brooklyn brownstone, a Guatemalan adobe house, a Mongolian yurt, and a Yemeni tower house, each cozy and inviting in their own way. In Homes’ interiors and exteriors, users can click, drag, and interact with domestic objects, some familiar to Western hands (checkers, books, and dolls are common appearances) and some less so: Firewood to load into a cookstove, as in the adobe; shears to clip sheep fur as at the yurt. “Homes” invites users young and old to imagine ourselves at home somewhere distant yet cozy, foreign yet not – an expanded sense of what it means to be a member of the world. [Read this article]
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