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The artist Chloe Varelidi, usually creates games, toys, and unique products. She worked for different organizations for ten years before she founded a company called “humans who play”. Humans who play is a company who works with organizations on human-centric design. They aim to tackle problems and questions through design. Each of her projects uses different mediums to resolve the challenge. One of her projects is called Animal Badges. She created different badges that had different animals. The badges were given out to kids after they learned a new skill related to emotional learning. Each of the different animals represents a different skill like empathy, curiosity, perseverance, and compassion. I admire this project because it is helping kids learn more about their emotions. Education about emotions should be taught in school because it helps people understand what they are going through and feeling and communicate that to other people so others understand as well. It is one of the most important life skills that someone needs, not only to understand themselves better but to also interact with different people.
https://varelidi.com/post/89194714461/animal-badges-a-sample-of-some-badges-i
