The real value of creativity was and still is, hard to define. Admired as inventiveness, problem solving, insightfulness, originality, and discovery of personal potential, creativity encompasses a broad variety of meanings.
Vital and productive aspect of the of the human personality.
A child's freedom to explore and express him or herself.
Children's spaces that encourage both proximity and independence, were built around the belief that play had beneficial effects on physical, psychological and cognitive development.
A space of personal amusement and sensory exploration.
Bahaus and Children's Creativity and design.
Designer Ivan Chermayeff
'There must be places for heroes and heroines.
Space to foul; room to move; soft corners to fall asleep in.
Storage, lots of it, for incredible accumulations.
Colour and Light.
Not a classroom.
No images that won't erase.
No one wants to live in someone else's personal expression.
No invasions of privacy.
A tabula rasa, because children don't have to be reinvented.'
The 1970s environments made the child's entire room toylike.
Norman Cherner - Line drawings of children's rooms implied that a parent's industriousness could directly affect a child's play.
An enclosed little world managed by teachers but designed, built and operated for the child.
Pedagocical emphassis on cultivating children's skills at depiciting and describing their own feelings and experiences using art materials.
Children's creativity is pure and innante.
Binney and Smith - The Drawing Teacher - Crayola
Encourage children to explore materials, textures, and their own imaginations in works of art.
Holiday Art Carnival
Children's creative Center
Just as play was percieved
MoMA
Everyone can be creative if exposed to art as a freeing, rather than rigid, experience.
Colouring books could destroy natural creative expression, induce imitation and injure the child's tastes.
Talking about places, people and feelings and having children paint to music were means of exploring ideas and materials that did not presuppose a formal outcome.
Designed for childre MoMA
Magnet Master
Tyng Toy
Learning required playful experimentation.
Aesthetic, intellectual and social development of children.
Learning by doing.
*Teaching children about graphic design in fun ways/ kerning, wooden letters*
Exploratorium
Play involves using the forms and instruments of society out of context and can thus reduce fear.
The Brooklyn's Children Museum
One of the best ways to cultivate our own creativity is to help children cultivate theirs.
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