Kids at preschool. designing products and wayfinding systems to enhance kids’ skills, facilitating wellbeing through communication

Abstract

In our society kids spend a significant part of their life outside home up to eight hours a day there. In this environment, to feel safe kids “need” both rules to respect and freedom to live experiences. Still today pre-school are designed mainly according only to the ergonomics rules without considering emotional aspects. The main objective of this research is to identify a set of good practices to design pre-school products, furniture, interior settings and wayfinding systems able to enhance quality experiences on education and growing to integrate learning and teaching methods in pleasant experiences, improving awareness among the users. This paper aims to underline the importance of the communicative aspects of design for a new education approach based on “learning by doing”.