Extension Workshop Little Designers: co-creating school furniture with children in early childhood

Instituto de Ciências Sociais

Abstract

The outreach workshop “Pequenos Designers: co-creating school furniture” brought together Architecture and Urbanism and Biomedicine students and nursery-age children through a participatory design experience aimed at co-creating chairs for the partner school. The activity was carried out over four sessions, comprising stages of research, development of children’s narratives, collaborative painting and finishing of the pieces. Grounded in children’s agency and pedagogical mediation, the proposal valued the children’s creative expression and the students’ critical reflection on the act of designing with and for childhood.