Children's Creativity Case Study

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4.1 Introduction:
The early development of cognitive skills, emotional well-being, social competence, and sound physical and mental health builds a strong foundation for success well into the adult years. Beyond their short term importance for positive school achievement, these abilities are critical prerequisites for economic productivity and responsible citizenship throughout life. All aspects of adult human capital, from work force skills to cooperative and lawful behavior, build on capacities that are developed during childhood, beginning at birth (Centre on Developing Child, Harvard University).

4.2 Residential Spaces to Promote Children’s Creativity:
4.2.1 Introduction:
Due to growth ages, activation, promotion of creativity in the children …show more content…

Children and adolescents are important groups of users of residential spaces in the scale of house, and neighborhood spaces, local streets, children’s garden and local parks (Azemati, 2009). These places are allocated to major part of children’s daily life. Due to this reason improving the quality of these spaces to be effective on personal development, social interaction, enhance of the sense of cooperation and even their education. Lack of appropriate design criteria for the design of residential spaces, including the psychological needs of children and their psychological and spiritual realities caused their potential talents could not grow well.

Therefore, elements of residential space will impact on child’s psychology, and make him to be creative and innovative; the interior spaces in specific will stimulate a child’s imagination.

4.2.2 The role Residence in fostering children’s …show more content…

According to the analysis done, the design principles of residential spaces that can increase the curiosity, and game-playing motivation of children and in accordance with the literature, is effective in promoting the creativity and can be explained according to below principles:
• Principle 1: “connectedness and continuity of open and closed spaces (natural spaces)”.
• Principle 2: “a free plan design form and presence of small walls or movable partition walls that children create places for themselves by help of their parents”.
• Principle 3: “to create diversity by natural elements”. Natural landscape has a correlation with creativity potential. The existence of plants in the interiors helps in increasing creativity level.
• Principle 4: “play making by natural elements”.

Using the aforementioned principles in designing the residential spaces can be prepared the base of increasing the curiosity and “play-participation”, and thus improving the child’s creativity by applying the variables such as “natural stimulus elements” and “flexibility of

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