Handmade Go-cart Team

Renzo, the toymaker Renzo at the Playday 2007, Victoria park
He is a teacher in toy-making activities and toy-designer, with educational aims. He has a long experience in teaching both adults and children to play games and in making toys. He works in various contexts, such as schools, festivals, pubblic events, children's libraries, playgrounds, community centres and museums.

Which kind of toys? He finds it essential and useful to re-discover the traditional toys always made by children, from world cultural heritages, built with recyclable materials, everyday objects or softwood.
These kind of toys - asTeaching at the group, Calthorpe Community Garden, May 2007 testimony of kids’ play culture or children's folklore across the whole world - tell us about the silent culture of the poorest people, not adequately represented in toy museums but really capable of attracting our sense of magic. Like travelers into time and space, these toys link different cultures and different generations; and with their simplicity, they give us a chance to understand a way to think about how to make a better world.

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Pedro
Pedro Kalache was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and came to live in London in his early childhood. He grew up and was educated in the UK but maintains a strong connection with his country of origin. He is fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish. Pedro is dismantling a discarded wooden pallet to get useful pieces of wood for the go-cart making

Pedro lived in Brazil from 1994 where he began training in Art and Design. In 1999 he returned to London to continue his training and to study design at degree level.

Pedro Kalache developed a fascination with ceramics whilst on a 3D design foundation course. This led to further study at Central Saint Martins where he gained a Ceramic Design BA degree (Honours) in 2005.

Pedro Kalache's first commission, an installation piece, inspired and gave the focus to his professional ceramic practice: Tile Design and Installation Work.

The designer and maker has produced work for public spaces, schools, sheltered housing projects, commercial and private residential settings. The wide range of ceramic techniques he uses vary according to the nature and context of the work. The hamering operation requires high concentration

Pedro Kalache delivers high quality tailor-made ceramics by actively engaging with and responding to the client's requirements.

The designer/maker lives in London. Have a look at his website: pedrokalache.co.uk

Jean-Pierre Rossie
He is a sociocultural anthropologist wandering between Sidi Ifni, Morocco and Ghent, Belgium. He was first trained as a social worker then engaged in studies on African ethnology at the University of Ghent (Ph.D. 1973).
During his fieldwork on children’s socialization in the Tunisian Sahara (1975) he started his lifelong research on Saharan and North African children’s play, games and toys. Next to his scientific activites he has also been working in the social service for immigrants of the city of Ghent (1980-1989).
He is publishing a series of books in the collection Saharan and North African Toy and Play Cultures (see www.sanatoyplay.org). He has a special interest in using children's play and toy culture for sociocultural and pedagogical action in Developing Countries and for intercultural and peace education in a Western context (see www.sanatoyplay.org - publications: Rossie, 1984 & 2005).
This website is hosting a his article about Moroccan go-carts made by children, have a look at the Special Issue Box

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