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We live in a junk society. All the better if we can take advantage of it. - Look here! says Arvind Gupta enthusiastically while he was in high tempo show all he can do of some thin wooden sticks with flexible rubber corner. door knob wall protector The Indian scientist and Toymaker door knob wall protector Arvind Gupta was on a visit to Sweden earlier this year, invited by the Royal Institute of Art University's architecture school, door knob wall protector Mejan arc. But some teachers in French schools saw vigilant enough to allow him to meet with students as well.
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Back home in India work Arvind Gupta for a science center in the city of Pune southeast of Mumbai. He is passionate about making educational toys by debris, especially along with the poorest children in Indian villages. Therefore, almost all the material door knob wall protector he uses stuff that can be found even in the smallest hole in rural India: bits of bicycle tube, old newspapers, beer cans and juice cartons.
Job: Works at the Children's Science Centre at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) door knob wall protector in Pune, India. The Swedish door knob wall protector students, as freshman in high school, follows politely Arvinds high-speed lesson in Toy Making. They do their best to get to the nifty things of the rubbish he has with him. But it is only when some seventh graders will on spontaneous visit to the picture theater as you sense the power of the combination of play and science.
In a few minutes, they are completely door knob wall protector in Arvinds world. - Play is "serious business," said Arvind Gupta. Students may not always understand the rationale behind the design, but they have done it with your hands so having some sort of knowledge seeped into their heads. Perhaps it can be put to use when they build houses in the future or it's just fun for now. It is so good.
The first contact with science should be fun. If you can make a link to the real everyday life so it will be exciting, says Arvind and shows off a pump that he made from an old toothpaste tube. It has been named "A pump from a dump", from a garbage dump.
Arvind Gupta calls himself a "70's" product. He is the engineer on the green wave-wise pulled from a well-paid job in the city out to the country to do good. One message called on him, he says, "Go to the people, live with them, love them and build based on what they have and what they can." - I was inspired by the student revolts. You know, in 1968 in Paris, Vietnam movement, the feminist movement, the protests against environmental degradation. door knob wall protector All that has influenced me. In India, there were also many strong political movements. The whole society was moving then. Highly educated left their jobs, scientists resigned because they did not want to create atomic bombs but rather make life better for people, says Arvind Gupta over a vegetarian lunch in the French school cafeteria.
He had received a fine job at a car factory after graduating from one of India's elite schools for engineers. He stayed there for two years. Then he felt that it was his calling to develop ever better trucks. - Looking back, it was good to work near the assembly line in a factory, to be a part of the mass production and feel the alienation.
Arvind Gupta's mother was illiterate and although she was very proud of his son's academic success protested she never when he resigned from his permanent job at the car factory. On the contrary, she was proud of his social commitment. Arvind Gupta began gently to take off for a year to work in a village school. It was 1978. When he moved into the village, he noticed door knob wall protector all the pieces of bicycle tubes and thought "hmm, this might be useful."
It came in 1985. Since then he has published many books with toy models, made from the simplest possible material in different languages. Additionally there is a site online with short films where he shows how to make different things.
Arvind Gupta has received door knob wall protector several prizes and it happens that he gets invited to scientific conferences to show how one can go about communicating scientific knowledge in an easy way. - Every day, millions of children door knob wall protector watching our movies. All are welcome to download them to their own computers, translate them and spread them