Interactive Design of Children's Creative Furniture in Urban Community Space

Abstract

Children's creative furniture intervention in urban space, the development of society and the active exploration and research on the functionality of urban space presenting a diversified urban development model and actively creating a child-friendly city is a typical urban development sample. It can solve the counting problems of functional failure and demand misalignment of child-friendly urban public space, re-examine the inclusiveness and diversity of urban neighbourhood space, create a child-friendly city, drive social power, realize children’s design dreams in a new mode, and construct a child-friendly future community. The design team conducted joint workshops and children’s furniture creative curriculum design for social experiments in conjunction with Fengjiao Yuan Primary School. Using the streets of Fengpu District in Shanghai as the research site, the team conducted a creative activity of localization and creative storm translation, exploring the localization and inclusiveness of urban space and residents through children's creativity and activating the vitality of urban community space. The four-dimensional social innovation model of participation in learning - participation in design - participation in construction - participation in maintenance is constructed to explore the role of children's creative furniture in the process of urban renewal and the research path. A series of children's creative furniture design activities realize children's participation in urban construction in the form of urban masters, and creativity and imagination add vitality and temperature to the city. Creative design from children's perspective is an effective methodological strategy for empowering and reshaping community space. Children's innovative furniture design provides a rich spatial experience design, allowing residents to feel the effect of spatial expansion and improve the inclusiveness, interactivity and entertainment experience of urban community space. The in-depth exploration of spatial resources of urban neighbourhoods and urban furniture design needs, adhering to the innovative development model of adapting to local conditions and designing for needs, provides design ideas and empirical references for the development of the functional expansion of urban community space.