Art, Images, Communications and Children

Images are children’s first language; scribbling and drawing are the means by which they first represent the world. To children, art is total communication. The Logo Telecommunications project was designed to look at ways through which children could bring together images, symbols and words to communicate concepts over distance using the computer as a tool. The project is concerned with developing a creative interface between children and technology by investigating both how children process personal information and imagery through electronic media and how telecommunications affects children’s perceptions of internal and external space. The Logo Telecommunications project broke through the isolation that children so often experience in inner-city schools. In doing so it sparked new ways of seeing and doing, dynamically widening the dimensions of children’s learning environment.