Print Email Facebook Twitter Workshop with 335 primary school children in The Netherlands Title Workshop with 335 primary school children in The Netherlands: What is needed to improve the IEQ in their classrooms? Author Bluyssen, P.M. (TU Delft Indoor Environment) Kim, D.H. (TU Delft Indoor Environment) Eijkelenboom, A.M. (TU Delft Indoor Environment) Ortiz, Marco A. (TU Delft Indoor Environment) Date 2020 Abstract To identify current problems in the classroom and to conceptualize design solutions by primary school children to solve these problems, 335 children from seven primary schools participated in a workshop held in the Experience room of the SenseLab, comprising of two parts. In part 1, the children were asked to think about their own classroom at school and to choose an IEQ-problem in their own classroom that they are bothered with. In part 2 of the workshop, the children were asked to imagine they are an inventor or scientist in 2040 with all resources available and to make a design for the future. The content analysis of the problems and solutions appearing in the drawings and the written text resulted in 5 themes (light, noise, temperature, air and other than IEQ) and 16 sub-themes (11 for the problems and 5 for the solutions). Noise-related problems were most frequently reported (58%), followed by temperature (53%), air (22%), and light (16%). Girls reported more problems than boys, which is possibly related to a better recollection of negative feelings towards those problems in their classrooms. 47% of the children proposed solutions related to more than one IEQ-problem. Solutions ranged from existing solutions, for example headphones to protect against noise to far-fetched solutions such as send noisy children away by means of a rocket. The outcome showed that children can be valuable contributors in co-designing ‘new’ or ‘adapted’ classroom environments. Subject ClassroomGenerative toolsIndoor environmental qualityPrimary school childrenWorkshop To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dbe628a0-e4dd-449d-94e7-7af8dcd5b990 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106486 ISSN 0360-1323 Source Building and Environment, 168 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 P.M. Bluyssen, D.H. Kim, A.M. Eijkelenboom, Marco A. Ortiz Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0360132319306985_main.pdf 1.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:dbe628a0-e4dd-449d-94e7-7af8dcd5b990/datastream/OBJ/view