Student project

We used to love fear

Designer
Paweł Stefan Bielecki
Education
Master
Subject area
Industrial Design
Focus area
Design for Play
Year
2025
Collaboration partners
Recreational Fear Lab
Emil Veber Rasmussen
Background
Presence of horror elements in child culture and how puppet can be a horror-based child culture artifact

We used to love fear

In my Master's Thesis, I am focusing on the presence of horror elements in child culture - why they used to be more common, their disappearance, and how they could be brought back in the form of a horror-based child culture design. The project of this thesis is a horror puppet named Josh, which can be used by various theatres and performers to create eerie stories for younger audiences.