Designing furniture as learning facilities for early young child education in Desa Gunung Sari, Tangerang

Abstract

Early childhood education is one of the most important stages in the process of child growth. This program was designed in order to prepare young children for further education at the elementary school stage. However, many early childhood education facilities, mainly public school located in villages still have inadequate facilities, based on data from Early Childhood Education Association. From unfit buildings to inadequate learning facilities. Therefore, it is necessary to design an appropriate and suitable learning tool for children in their early childhood age. A community service project was conducted on an early childhood education facility located in a village in Mauk area. The community service process begins with researching data through observation to the facility, interviews with the people in the area as well expert on early childhood education. Data about children ergonomy is collected. The output is twenty multifunction modular furniture named SALA (Sarana Alas Duduk Anak), that can function as table and chair for students, table and stool for teacher, and can be arranged as stage for school performance. It can be stacked up to 3 modules for space-saving. The design is made in home-based furniture maker near the village and as an effort to support and assisting early childhood education nationally.