In schools the environment plays a leading role and is “educating”, and that is why they must adapt to the needs of the child
In a Montessori school the environment plays a leading role and is “educating” as much as the method itself. The space is divided into work areas and the child can freely pass from one to the other depending on his preferences and inclinations; The materials must be arranged in an orderly way, easily accessible without external aid and above all stored always in the same place, to guarantee the child fixed references.
Then there are furnishings designed specifically on the child’s body and designed to satisfy the Montessorian method: they are furniture specially made for children aged between 0 and 6 years.
Furniture as sensory materials
To date, in Italy there are still few schools that have specific furnishings of this type. These are ergonomic furniture, which support and promote correct childhood motor development; No simpler containers or supports, furniture are sensory materials: beautiful to look at, pleasant to touch and functional to the development of the child.
The main feature is the simplicity of the lines and the rounded shape. The tables, in particular, are designed for the moments of study, for the moment of the meal, but also for rest. During a break, the child can in fact stretch on it, lie down or simply lean your abdomen, always considered our second brain.
That’s not all: the tables, designed “through the perspective of a child”, are even more beautiful if seen from below, where an accurate study of the color and the method of refractioning the light makes them special, because it is known, one of the activities preferred by the children is to play and hide under the tables.
The relationship between adult and child changes
This is the perspective of the furniture seen in a Montessorian key: no longer the child linked to the high chair or caged in a bed with bars, but but Furnishing elements at the height of child, from whom he can enter and exit in total autonomy and even capable of “hosting” the adult who sits at his own height. Thus the traditional adult-child relationship is also overturned: two people at the same level, without more hierarchies but in a profound mutual exchange.
