Creative Environments at Children’s Club

Document Type : Review

Authors

1 MA Graduate, Architecture and Urban Design School, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

2 Isfahan University of Art, Iran.

Abstract

Children are the most sensitive and impressionable community age group. Studies indicate that the child's environment impacts on physical, mental, social, and creativity improvement. In this regard, the environment should be designed to act as a teacher for children and provide conditions for enhancing child's creativity. The paper's purpose is to study environmental factors affecting children’s creativity. Accordingly, it uses a descriptive-analytical method to investigate which environmental factors affect child's creativity? And it explores the background on the field based on library resources. The findings show that creative environments include natural, private, social, playful, flexible, and sensory stimulating environments. Doing creative activities in creative environments provide an effective platform for enhancing children’ creativity.

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