Masterclass on Is Space Important for Child Development?

In most ideas, discourses related to child-development and education and hence in the efforts to actualize and bring them to practice, where these will manifest – the space – has least attention. Whereas, space encompasses them all the time in all places – indoor or outdoors.

In this context, Kabir Vajpeyi will be hosting the upcoming Masterclass – Is Space Important for Child Development? This session underlines and focuses on how space has the immense possibility and potential to contribute significantly in the natural process of child development and learning through multiple senses.

Kabir Vajpeyi is an architect and social entrepreneur from Bhopal, has spent over three decades using design as a tool for social change. As co-founder of VINYÃS and VINYÃS Society, he has worked with governments across 22 states to make schools, Anganwadis, and health centres more inclusive and child-friendly. His pioneering idea, BaLA (Building as Learning Aid), has transformed over three lakh schools and two lakh Anganwadis across India, and inspired work globally.

Key Takeaways:

• Become more aware of the importance of creating sensitive and responsible spaces for children.
• Develop an understanding of how to develop such spaces in their own environments – home, campus, neighbourhood, settlement, or institution.
• Integrate space into providing a better childhood for their own children and those in society.

This Masterclass will be valuable for Anganwadi workers, program designers, caregivers, preschool or ICDS programme administrators, preschool teachers and principals, parents, and policy professionals.