Children’s furniture: teaching, practice and social commitment

Abstract

This article aims to show a teaching practice that believes that the practical implementation of the ideas associated with the care of a local need can enhance the learning process, providing it with deeper layers of meaning both in the technical and the human realms. Through it students can learn from the successes and frustrations of the creative act and at the same time understand the relevance of their professional activity by realizing that the nature of their work only makes sense when it is able to include the “other” in the process of its execution. At the same time, the article is aimed at presenting the results obtained along the 12 years in which this experience is being carried out – its premises, transformations and the figures that have been achieved – and wishes to outline the identification of the qualitative achievements of this type of action.