One House, A Hundred Stories is a dollhouse inspired by Iranian architecture. It gives children a space to create their stories inside an Iranian house and, indirectly, to become familiar with and fond of fading layers of Iranian identity. The movable parts of One House, A Hundred Stories allow children to create different arrangements for a single house or even an entire neighborhood. Elements such as a pool, a cat, a tree, and stairways help children think about richer and more detailed stories and strengthen their language and storytelling skills.
This toy includes a three-door room, two rectangular rooms, one entry space, 8 outer walls, a shared courtyard cloth, three stairways, one pool, two people, one tree, four garden beds, and one cat. Children can arrange these pieces in different ways to create one house, several houses, or a small neighborhood.
This toy can become a meeting point between classic games such as playing house and contemporary digital tools. Ehsan Ahmadi, age 8, made the stop-motion animation opposite entirely on his own and in less than a few hours using this house.
You can see some of the details of this dollhouse and the variety of spaces it creates for children’s play in the video opposite.