The Art of Play

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2025-05-22

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Virginia Tech

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This thesis examines how children's interactions with their environments can inform the design of early learning spaces. Through iterative design cycles and hands-on feedback from educational settings, it demonstrates that real-time observations lead to more functional and adaptable spaces. The final design—a learning center featuring modular structures, movable elements, and a fabric-based building system co-created by children—embodies principles of bricolage, iteration, and child agency, illustrating how adaptability fosters more engaging educational environments.

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play, kids, bricolage, early learning center, nature

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