From the
initial process of listing areas and criteria for choice, we chose the
kindergarten as the focus point for our project. The use of public
kindergartens as part of the welfare system in Denmark, and the overall
pedagogic angle as part of a Northern European tradition of child development,
makes the kindergarten represent values of Danish society. Although we will
develop a product in collaboration with Danish kindergartens, we imagine it to
be transferable to other nations and cultures, as well as other possible
contexts. The kindergarten is an area with different stakeholders involved - parents,
children, pedagogues, municipality, etc. - and possible conflicting or
dissimilar interests between those stakeholders. The different interests inside the field, characterised by having soft values and a humanistic approach as
opposed to more hardcore facts such as physical measurements, opens the
kindergarten for new solutions based on in depth research of the field.
