Kleine Hände, großes Potential. Ein kindgerechter Bereich für das Holzwerken im Wohnumfeld.

Name(s) of graduate(s):

Nick Konstantin Otto

2025

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Produkt Design

Bachelor of Arts

Description

Children possess great potential to develop skills and behaviors relevant to the future. Practical work with the hands specifically promotes creativity, perseverance or even problem-solving competence. However, children often have little time left for authentic woodworking with real tools. The design aims to normalize woodworking in everyday life and thus strengthen repair behavior, self-efficacy and resilience in the long term.

The focus of the development process was the professional exchange with physiotherapists as well as repeated testing of prototypes with daycare and school children. A low-to-the-ground work area for school and creative work in the living area emerged from the ergonomic and functional requirements. “Die Werkkiste” provides the child-friendly tools, the height-adjustable units of the workbench and cushion grow with the child, and the closed surface below the row of holes for clamps allows for a switch to writing work.