Diseño de espacios lúdico – sensoriales para niños en el Museo Pumapungo

Abstract

This project focuses on designing playful-sensory spaces for child visitors of the Pumapungo Museum in the city of Cuenca. The purpose of this proposal is to generate an appropriate and child-friendly museographic environment that fosters active interaction and learning of the cultural content housed in this important institution through activities that integrate available sensory and pedagogical stimuli. This will help satisfy the institutional need for spaces that promote participation and learning through play. Similarly, it is of vital importance to highlight that to meet the objectives, actions and procedures were developed involving theoretical research and spatial analysis. These helped to conceptualize and develop methodologies that adapt to the intervened spaces and themes, as well as in the design of these spaces, basing their characterization on other places of similar conditions as reference structures. Likewise, both inductive and deductive research were combined to achieve solid elements and theories that strengthen this proposal in the cultural conceptualization referring to the Cañari Culture. This project aims to generate a design proposal that integrates the use of materials, space functionality, chromatics, ergonomics, and anthropometry in the conception of an appropriate, but above all, aesthetically functional, and playful-sensory area, that enhances the museum experience for children.