Description
When you grasp a fine wooden SHUM cube, you kind of ask yourself whether there is something in it or it’s just an ordinary fir cube. So you shake it a little, and there comes rustling, or rattling, or clattering… You turn the cube, look through the transparent cover and realise what kind of sound is produced by 4 grains of buckwheat, or 30 small nails, or…
SHUM consists of 16 wooden cubes containing materials that produce different sounds when a cube is shaken (8 different materials, therefore 8 pairs to identify).
In order to develop free creativity, the cubes can be used for various other activities such as making rows of items from the most silent to the loudest. Or for guessing materials. Or for making music. And so on.
A hurried society makes one forget many things: spending time with each other, playing, listening, touching, enjoying natural elements, coming back into touch with oneself through handiwork. We designed SHUM to help us all to remember, in a simple and fun way, all that we forgot.
The wooden cubes were made in the Đogić Art woodworking atelier in Zagreb and are delivered in cotton bags sewn in the Kamensko women’s association in Zagreb. Locally and with love.
We are looking forward to staying in touch with all the players who may want to contact us, so that we can find out which games they will have come up with using SHUM, and so that we can share and spread the newly discovered joy.
