Emília: mesa de luz para crianças com baixa visão

Abstract

The project of completion of the Design course to which this report refers brings as its main approach the adaptation of tools used by children with low vision in school phase, in order to provide greater accessibility in several ways. One of the pillars of this project is the diffusion of an open platform tool that is totally susceptible to change, without a fixed value, because it was thought to be fully adaptable. The project was based on two teaching methods, Reggio Emilia and Montessori, both promote the autonomy of children in their learning processes, taking into account the difficulties faced by children with low vision within the school, the product developed aims provide autonomy to these students, but not only for them, because the teaching methods that guide the work also promote the collective. This is not a project that is also based on universal design, exclusive for all and non-inclusive projects. The intent of this product is to provide children, with or without low vision, interactions beyond the classroom and beyond school contexts, this project has social and educational pretensions at its main base in the search for a free and collective education.