Smart Board Eco Board by Ljiljana Reljic & Snezana Cvetkovic is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2015 A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Competition Category.
IronSustainable Product· 2015
Smart Board Eco Board
by Ljiljana Reljic & Snezana Cvetkovic
Client: Smart Board
A' Design Award Winner in Sustainable Product Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #36760The Design
About Smart Board Eco Board
Smart boards, made from recycled materials, help kids to improve their knowledge, motor skills and experience. The motives on the board are created by using different materials and textures to stimulate development of sensors. They have the ability to find and correct errors, offer experiences in an easy and fun way. Their creation increased awareness of pollution and healthy environment amongst kids and their creators.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Smart Board Eco Board is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Smart Board Eco Board is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Smart Board Eco Board is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Main idea and inspiration was brought by the question how to use different materials which we'll help kids in learning.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Main focus was on creating an interesting and fun toy for kids to play with and learn about recycling and poluttion of the environment.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Creating other smart boards with different motives.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to creating the smart board Eco Board from recycled materials demonstrates remarkable environmental consciousness - could you share the journey that led you to choose these specific recycled materials and how they enhance the learning experience?
First, I had individual materials that the children used for playing and learning, and then I combined them into a meaningful whole.Playing and fitting parts of the packaging, children develop fine motor skills, mathematical thinking, knowledge of the environment.
The smart board Eco Board's multi-sensory design incorporating various textures and materials is fascinating - how did you determine which combinations of materials would best stimulate children's motor skills and sensory development?
I am a Montessori educator on sensory development and materials, I know a lot from practice, I have been working in preschool for 23 years and I have experience.Sensory development that is stimulated by the sense of touch develops skills in children, and that is why it is important that children have experience with different materials in the early time.
Your research indicates positive feedback from parents and educational staff regarding the smart board Eco Board - what were some of the most surprising or meaningful insights you gathered from this evaluation process?
Creating a didactic toy for children's development from packaging.Which packaging is safe, appropriate, where to find resources.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The project was created by collecting packaging, creating individual recycling packaging materials, monitoring children's play activities created with materials and fitting separated materials in 3 parts of the eco table .With this project we have shown how it can be easily created a stimulating environment for children and how packaging can be reused in a creative way.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- board dimensions: 53cm x 41.5 cm x 3 cm ,
packaging dimension 55cm x 45cm x 13cm - Tags
- Recycling, environmental protection, skills, concepts, entertainment
- Production Technology
- The product is handmade by recycled different kinds of packaging. The base of the board is made of cardboard coated with a protective transparent foil. The motifs of the boards are made of: leather, wood, different kind of fabric, iron, plastic caps from food packaging, zippers, pebbles, wool, sandpaper, plastic buttons, laces.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part of the activity was to fit the most attractive parts into the meaningful themes interesting to children. Choosing the parts that will retain the longest attention of most children of all ages. The most attractive parts which were used by children aged 2-12 years, are embedded in the content of the boards
- Research
- The aim of the study was to examine the opinions of parents and educational staff on this design, handmade recycling of packaging, packaging recycling options in this way as well as the importance of using the board in practice. Anonymous questionnaire by the educational staff and parents came to the positive results and the need for promoting this idea. The monitoring of the quality of children's activities with recycled materials was also performed.
- Inspiration
- Observing children playing with hand-made recycled materials, we had the idea to create this design. The creation of such design inspired us by a wide variety of packaging that can be recycled, which has positive effects on environmental protection.
- Project Duration
- The project was initiated in 2012 in preschool "our child" Sabac.
Results are presented on:
17th Expert Meeting of Nurses of Serbia - Kladovo, 2014.
3 rd International expert conference - Cetinje, Montenegro 2014.
6 th Festival of science - Novi Sad, 2014
XX autumn expert meetings educator Tara,2014. - Operation Flow
- The eco board represent a didactic tool that in a fun and easy way help children to acquire knowledge, skills, to become acquainted with ecological terminology.Motives on the boards are made of different materials and textures which stimulate sensory development. This design attracts and motivates children with its structure and motifs including error control, facilitating the acquisition of knowledge and experience in an easy and fun .
- Team Members
- ljiljana reljic
snezana cvetkovic - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Milan Pavlovic, Variations 2014.
Image #2: Photographer Millan Pavlovic, Variations 2014.
Image #3: Photographer Milan Pavlovic, Variations 2014.
Image #4: Photographer Milan Pavlovic, Variations 2014.
Video credited Milos Jovicic, Variations 2014.
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