Kids at Preschool. Designing Products and Wayfinding Systems to Enhance Kids’ Skills, Facilitating Wellbeing Through Communication

Kids at Preschool. Designing Productsand Wayfinding Systems to EnhanceKids’Skills, Facilitating WellbeingThrough CommunicationLaura Giraldi(&), Elisabetta Benelli, Marta Maini,and Francesca MorelliUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy{laura.giraldi,elisabetta.benelli}@unifi.it,marta.maini@hotmail.it, francesca_morelli_@libero.itAbstract.In our society kids spend a significant part of their life outside homeup to eight hours a day there. In this environment, to feel safe kids“need”bothrules to respect and freedom to live experiences. Still today pre-school aredesigned mainly according only to the ergonomics rules without consideringemotional aspects. The main objective of this research is to identify a set of goodpractices to design pre-school products, furniture, interior settings and wayfindingsystems able to enhance quality experiences on education and growing to inte-grate learning and teaching methods in pleasant experiences, improving aware-ness among the users. This paper aims to underline the importance of thecommunicative aspects of design for a new education approach based on“learning by doing”.