1. Promoting Children’s Ideas for Better Living Environment: Environmental Education Programme for Children Living in Deprived Urban Housing
Paramita Atmodiwirjo & Yandi Andri Yatmo
Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia

2. Background
Many children are living in poverty, especially in developing countries
Poor quality of living environment:
Inadequate space, overcrowded
Lack of access to basic services
Waste and pollution 5

3. How to improve this condition? What is the role of education?
We have great ideas to improve our environment
We want to live in a better environment
Education
= Building a vision for better environment

4. Knowledge of healthy living environment
Healthy homes
-Ventilation
-Natural light
-Waste
-Green
-Water
Environment

5. Healthy home education programme
In primary schools
In local neighbourhoods
Children worked in groups, accompanied by architecture students as facilitators 5

6. Learning approach Learning stages Learning principles
1. Understanding existing environment (recall, observe, analyse)
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
2. Summarizing the criteria of healthy living environment
Environmental awareness
Collaboration
3. Application through design
4. Reflection

7. Understanding existing environment
(recall, observe, analyse)

8. Worksheet 1: Do you feel comfortable at home?
room
dark/light
clean/dirty
fresh/stale
Identify different spaces in their home and the condition (lighting, cleanliness, fresh air)
problem
causes
how to overcome
Analyse the problems in their home: the causes and how to overcome

9. Worksheet 2: What happens to our waste?
Identify different kinds of waste in their surrounding and classify into reusable and non-reusable waste
reusable
non-reusable
Identify the journey of waste in their surrounding
Identify appropriate action towards waste

10. Worksheet 3: How green is your surrounding?
types
of plants
examples
many/few/none
Identify different types of plants in their surrounding
Mention various uses /functions of plants for human
Identify what might happen if there are no plants

11. Summary: How can we create a healthy living environment?
Summarize various aspects of healthy living environment

13. NOW, LET’S CREATE HEALTHY HOMES FOR US !!
House with trees, clean, fresh air, with windows, ventilation and saving electricity
NOW, LET’S CREATE
HEALTHY HOMES FOR US !!

14. Application of knowledge through design

15. Children’s ideas of healthy living environment

16. Programme evaluation*
Children were able to mention the requirements of healthy living environment
All children said that the activity was fun (especially the design exercise)
Some children felt the activity was easy, but some felt it was quite difficult. Difficulties were primarily in analytical tasks (thinking why, how, cause-effect)
*Based on questionnaires completed by children participating in 4 workshop sessions (n=124)

17. Create more windows and ventilation, in the house there should be a waste bin, plant more trees, the waste should be separated
The house should be bright, there should be ventilation, windows, waste bin, and clean water

18. From knowledge to creative ideas….
… then to vision and future real actions

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Thank you For further information:
Paramita Atmodiwirjo & Yandi Andri Yatmo
Department of Architecture, Universitas Indonesia