Emotional Design to Create Furniture for Children’s Well-Being

This paper is part of a design research and aims to present furniture solutions to create furniture and spaces that support children's well-being. Based on the values ​​of Emotional Design, this paper analyzes five case studies of furniture for children on western context, from the 1920s to current reality. This analysis present singular and common considerations, gathering design principles that guide the creative process and validate the designer as an interpreter of his/her reality, considering time, space, and circumstances. The study is based on a methodology framed in three stages - exploratory, generative, and evaluative. With this idea in mind, the authors want to prove that the theoretical and practical aspects analyzed and linked with Portuguese productive sector, can guide this study to design and develop furniture for children’s well-being. The study highlights the limits, the values and the meanings that characterize children’s universe.