Generative Design
Rules plus numbers make an entire catalogue
About 50 minutesAdvancedTurtle and Code
What your child can do at the end
Separate the fixed rules of a system from its free parameters
The brief
A generative designer does not make one chair. They write the rules a chair must obey, expose the numbers that can vary, and then generate hundreds and choose. The skill is not drawing: it is deciding which rules to fix and which numbers to free. Today you build a system dense enough to explore.
Skills it develops
abstractionpredictionloops
How it is assessed
3 graded challenges inside the lab, and 8 questions at the end that check the idea rather than the clicks. Every attempt is saved, so a retry after a mistake counts as the learning it is.