The Inclusive dilemma of Stuttgart's Developing Behaviour Organization
Arrived in Nuremberg late evening, having done a couple of poles on the rally route near Stuttgart and Munich. Caught up on some work in the morning before heading out into town for a quick walkabout and a local lunch, and then off to Prague for the official @polesofinconvenience launch event!
I decided to use my hour in town visiting the toy museum. The whole museum was fascinating showing the evolution of toys and exploring it as a commentary on evolution of societal norms and culture. Some of the toys dated back 2000 years but most were over the last few hundred Yeats.
It was incredible to see how toys have evolved and how their evolution also represents the changing interests and imaginations of the generations. It was like stepping into a time capsule of playfulness!
Toys play a signiifcant role in our childhood, therefore lives too. Toys become a child’s best friends, their confidants, cultivating their imagination and teaching their little minds about the world around them. They shape the way we look at the world and through them one can learn how the world has been shaped by us as a collective over the years.
This was the reason behind bringing a doll version of Naina along on this trip. A neurotypical 5-7 year-old character, Naina is a representation of an inclusive duniya, having an open heart for everything she loves and understands, and even more for what she doesn’t. As I make my way through this long roadtrip across Europe and Asia, I plan to gift them to both friends I meet along the way, as well as utter strangers.
Following in the footsteps of authors like @charliemackesy who left copies of his book in various places in hopes that it reaches those who need it the most. My plan, or rather experiment, is to leave Naina and InclusiveDuniya postcards that invites the finders to write back to me about what they would like to see s. After all, it’s us, who inhabit the world, who will create an inclusive duniya