{"id":892,"date":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.fortuno.hr\/cekom\/partnership-on-unity-through-knowledge-fund-ukf-connectivity-program-enhancing-childrens-well-being-by-sustainable-school-furniture-design\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:00:00","slug":"partnership-on-unity-through-knowledge-fund-ukf-connectivity-program-enhancing-childrens-well-being-by-sustainable-school-furniture-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/partnership-on-unity-through-knowledge-fund-ukf-connectivity-program-enhancing-childrens-well-being-by-sustainable-school-furniture-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership on UNITY THROUGH KNOWLEDGE FUND (UKF) \u2013 CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM Enhancing children’s well-being by sustainable school furniture design"},"content":{"rendered":"

VINKOVCI, 19.12.2019.<\/strong> \u2013 Danijela Domljan, Ph.D<\/strong>. participated, as project manager of Enhancing children’s well-being by sustainable school furniture design, project financed through Unity Through Knowledge Fund \u2013 UKF. The coordinator of the project is Faculty of forestry, University of Zagreb, and partner institution is Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Department of Design and Environmental Analyses (D+EA), Ithaca NY, USA. Co-partners organizations in Croatia are Competence Centre Ltd. for Research and Development, Vinkovci; Wood Cluster Slavonian Oak, Vinkovci and Open Academy Step by Step, Zagreb. Project lasted for 2 months, from 26th <\/sup>September to 26th <\/sup>November 2019.<\/p>\n

The school furniture design has been neglected for a long time by the educational systems of many countries of the world. This project strives to improve the well-being and health of children in schools through the sustainable design of school furniture.<\/p>\n

The project is being implemented with an interdisciplinary Department of Design and Environmental Analyses (D+EA) at Cornell University, USA, with the aim to apply a new methodology for improvement of the children\u2019s attitudes to the environment, their behaviour and environmental awareness from the perspective of sustainable design of school furniture. It seeks to foster a sense of satisfaction and well-being in the school environment. To define the requirements, it is necessary to be multidisciplinary and user-orientated, to use design methods and the ability to combine a human approach to the research of children\u2019s needs and attitudes in schools, know wood ecological materials as well to apply knowledge and experience in teamwork with designers, architects, psychologists and ergonomists as is practicable with the experts at D+EA.<\/p>\n

The goal is to carry out a research project by involving the students and professors from D+EA upon Design Studio Courses as well as children, parents and teachers from primary schools in Ithaca NY district, in order to improve healthy school environment by designing new and innovative sustainable wooden concepts of products (furniture, equipment, didactic elements etc.) that will meet the needs of children and achieve a sense of well-being at school. Students will analyse the problems in school environment using different design methods, design the concepts based on obtained research results and produce models from wood materials in Design Studio.<\/p>\n

Expected outcomes of the project are new concepts in terms of human\/children-oriented product design: visual perception, aesthetics, functionality, ergonomics, education, psychology and sociology, use of sustainable (wood) materials, production technology, environmental aspect, cost and quality. Since the same problem is observed in Republic of Croatia also, it is expected that the new methodology and results achieved during visit will be implemented and applied in the Croatian schools and involve Croatian wood industry producers for the overall national benefits.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.sumfak.unizg.hr\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VINKOVCI, 19.12.2019. \u2013 Danijela Domljan, Ph.D. participated, as project manager of Enhancing children’s well-being by sustainable school furniture design, project financed through Unity Through Knowledge Fund \u2013 UKF. The coordinator of the project is Faculty of forestry, University of Zagreb, and partner institution is Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Department of Design and Environmental […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cekom.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}