[-empyre-] Fw: Re: prototyping fairy tales

[Adrian Freed]

At 10:22 AM +0000 3/23/10, Alexandra Antonopoulou wrote:
>Hello to everybody,
> the very act of designing and making using the ideas that fantasy can offer.
>
>In my case, the children rewrite and reillustrate fairytales creating contemporary versions based on their own experiences. This enables them learn about design and be given voice as moralizers. They have also to design a new medium that would host their

Thanks for describing your interesting work.
Could you please expand on this idea of giving voice as moralizers. I am curious
if this is an emergent feature of children's play and storytelling or if it is a
particular cultural norm we communicate to children with our stories (created by adults)?

Are adult stories  prototypes that children rework? Are children's stories prototypes that adults use for their writing?