Kristín Erlendsdóttir

A child walks from their home to a house where they meet around 150 children and their guardians. They stay many hours a day from Monday to Friday with their educators and friends. Big preschools are economically favorable and easier to organise and schedule, but the children’s perspective got lost somewhere during the design process, and the grown-ups took over.

My degree project aims to raise the children’s perspective. Through different workshops with children, we have designed an element that functions as a room divider, exhibition surface, play element, and sound absorber. It provides the children with security, privacy, tactility, and warmth. This was a rewarding process and collaboration between the most creative minds and me and my toolbox.