Interactive Clock “NooSPHERE” for Children with Limited Abilities (Mini Circus gif anime)
Project Description

“Children – one of the reference points in international development strategies, because they are the ones whose social and individual development will determine the future of the world. Another reference point has to be the environment, because that is the basis and source of resources for all future development.” (UNO report “Children and environment”).
According to statistics, today’s Russia is 62nd in the world for quality of life. If in some maternity wards there is no water or in hospices the windows are without glass and in the winter the ailing people cork them with pillows, it is hard to talk about quality of life, but by the same token it is also necessary to do so. There are lots of difficulties that, on first sight, seem to reduce to nothing all efforts for an improvement of the situation (“Which quality of life are you talking about – of surviving…,” “Not quality of life, but quality of death rather worries me”…).
In order to survive these days it is necessary to have varied knowledge and problem-solving skills. Adults are settled in their habits and a monopoly on knowledge and information on alternative technologies and resources of energy create a situation in which people are not able to change themselves and their environment. The traditional system of construction and architecture destroys the environment, and so our last hope is our children. Maybe they will succeed in building and living in a different way. They have an alternative, they just have to know it, if they want to survive on this planet. For children with limited abilities knowledge of methods for improving the quality of life is especially important, because they have no choice. Where can they get the necessary information about the near future? The creation of knowledge systems and of a value of education for sustainable development is the mission of many scientists. There are extremely few publications on the topic, and they are all, as a rule, a list of horrible facts not adapted at all for children’s comprehension. From mass media children get much negative information that makes them feel their weakness and fear facing future, and so they don’t want to grow up. One possible way to avoid the formation of pessimism is to create for them a game, in which they get the possibility to express their thoughts about their future, to see alternatives to the “alarming” scenarios of the future and, maybe, to understand their own role in improving life. The creation of a “future workshop” in miniature form that is able to come to every house and even into a separate chamber to a seriously ill child, is not an easy task, but why not try to resolve it in the name of a better life even for only one child.