Deborah Fumolo

Deborah is a versatile Friulian designer. After completing the Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture at the University of Udine, she decided to continue her academic training in product design, graduating at the Politecnico di Milano and earning the title of Master of Science in Product Design for Innovation.

Project developed @ Polifactory:
“3DU. Innovation in Montessori education.”

Analyzing the educational system, it is noticed that educational models in primary education are rigid, unsuitable for the current socioeconomic context and the guidelines provided by education science. The Montessoriana School is a system that can remedy certain shortcomings in the system. The core of this type of education is the didactic material, consisting of objects – games, and based on this the whole methodology. Through lectures on education for 0-3 year old instructors and 3 to 6 years of age, it has been pointed out that spending on materials is substantial and can be an obstacle to the dissemination of the method to the possibility to use very important tools for baby growth. Various wooden objects such as, for example, interlocking materials are used to introduce sizes, cubes of varying sizes, variable thickness wood prisms, geometric solids, bidimensional geometric shapes … 3D printing is a solution for the democratization of the material and the dissemination of the same also outside of the method schools. Obviously not all the instruments currently used in Montessori didactic could be produced with this instrumentation (for example, the flasks containing four types of different flavors for the development of the sense of taste), so research focuses on the development of materials reproduced by those currently in the catalog, respecting its features and passing the validation of the Montessoriano Committee.