A suggestion for designing historical and cultural toy heritage: An example of the Tofash Bursa Anatolian Cars Museum

The act of playing games is indispensable in the life of every child. Firstly, he creates the game with his own imagination and needs a product to support his dream. A toy is the element that makes each game more fun and educational. The toy is a very important tool that can be used both to entertain and educate the child. It has the characteristics of the place where it was be designed from the ancient times. In addition, thanks to cultural and traditional toy designs, children begin to recognize and describe the environment they live in by learning the characteristics of the region in which they are located. For this reason, cultural toys have great importance in children's development today. It is an important design method in terms of productizing the cultural heritage and turning it into a toy for it's protecting and maintaining. As a matter of fact, in many countries the sustainability of history and culture is provided to future generations with traditional toys. For these reasons, the dissertation also listed the most important examples of traditional cultural games and toys of individual countries, researched their features and evaluated their design. Among these countries there are the traditional toys of the decade of Japan, Russia, Denmark and France. While the countries distinguished by traditional toys were listed, it was seen that despite the great potential, it could not be sufficiently developed in Turkey. In this regard, the projects of traditional toys were evaluated, which were successful within the framework of the project prepared by the students of the Department of Industrial Product Design of the Faculty of Architecture at Halic University. In addition, an original design on this subject has been presented as an example and has been tried as a sustainable design method in industrial design education.