Color emotion as a feasible tool in a participatory project for a Primary School

Authors

  • Cristina Boeri Politecnico di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23738/CCSJ.110102

Keywords:

color emotion, color design, color preference, color in educational environments

Abstract

The experimentation conducted during a participatory pilot research project in a Primary School in Milan, explored the use of emotional associations of color through the identification of evocative terms, or “emotion words”, together with color combinations and images of projects in specific contexts, as a basis for comparison, discussion and verification, and, to conclude, for development of project hypotheses. Even if we cannot, on a numerical level, consider significant the reference sample used within the participatory process, both in the preliminary and in the verification phase of the methodological assumptions, the results of the experimentation led us to assume that the design methodology we identified and adopted proved to be functional in order to facilitate comparison and verification within the participatory process and subsequently develop design hypotheses based on the same comparison and verification.

Author Biography

  • Cristina Boeri, Politecnico di Milano

    Cristina Boeri - Architect PhD, her activity in the research, teaching and professional sectors, deals with aspects related to the color perception and design. Since 2001, she carries out educational and research activities in the Color Lab of the Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano. She is adjunct professor of Color and perception at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano.

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2019-06-20

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“Color emotion as a feasible tool in a participatory project for a Primary School” (2019) Cultura e Scienza del Colore - Color Culture and Science, 11(01), pp. 19–27. doi:10.23738/CCSJ.110102.