Revive the life of wasted material from previous usage and integrating those into children-oriented products that can benefit both their cognitive and social skills.  By building an educational system that offers different teaching tools, targeting children in both direct and indirect mediums allowing an open mindedness on the values we teach our children, and how to better them and ourselves as well.

The aim of the research was to conduct insights about the ongoing issue of the excessive amount of unused waste raw materials, in order to re-purpose these materials into more practical and functional purposes.

The purpose of it is to teach these values from an early age, and establish a belief that we have the right of well-being as well as the environment.

The main research findings concluded that it’s more effective to teach about sustainability at an early age, as well as young kids can become change agents if the approach is done right, that engages them and make them active beings.   After implementing and testing this concept through an educational system composed of a furniture item made out recycled paper and interactive playbook made out of waste textile.

The system I planned and strived to make is about joining the three components together. The centre constituent is APE, surrounded by the designer (me) and the end user (young kids). 

Each of the constituent approach may be different, the designer is the sender since they’re the ones cooperating with APE to make a tangible product. As the end-User is certainly the receiver who’ll be receiving the product.

Since the project is originally build upon a sustainable mind-concept, I had to think ahead and maintain as sustainable product life cycle were the reusing doesn’t end at one end-user but can be passed upon many, and the knowledge wouldn’t die at the first stop

Kiddie recyclers is an interactive system that encourages children, especially pre-schoolers between the ages 3-5 to learn new concept through delightful and engaging design. The first tool is a quite book, presented in form of individual spreads that can be assembled and de-assembled upon preference. The patent binding system, named as interchangeable pages, allow children to learn individually or Cooperatively through set of activities and games that teach them about different recycling process and the importance of it.

The second tool is more represented in a form of a seating item, stool hat is made through a recycling process, by prepossessing waste paper discarded form institutional systems such as schools, by making use of them into functional, sustainable furniture. The process is simple and easy, that can be taught in workshops for children to start adopting new hobbies as well widen their thinking bubble and become more innovative and conceptual in re-purposing the waste materials.

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