Learning Softly

- ongoing research into SOFTNESS as a way of knowing , from the 3-6 year olds’ Atelier

‘Maybe soft goes with soft and hard goes with hard, because when we touch the tree in a hard way, it feels hard, when we touch the tree softly, it feels soft. It makes the hard go away.’

Wells (age 6)

‘It is possible to design spaces alternatively from the traditional ways: spaces that are softer, less rigid, more open to the indeterminableness of experience...’

Children, Spaces, Relations (Reggio Children, 1998)