Estimation and Proposition Concerning Urban Environment by Means of the Use of the Five Senses' Icons by Elementary School Children

摘要

This paper aims to consider the proposition concerning urban environments regarding the change from the third to the fourth grade. The method can be categorized into two stages, the first being the conduction of the fieldwork and the workshop, organized as follows (1) “attempt to research”, (2) “attempt to select signs”, (3) “attempt to select icons”, (4) “attempt to propose” and (5) “attempt to criticize”, the second being the comparison of the tendency about the result data. According to the analysis, when the child passes from the third to the fourth grade, he/she turns out to estimate the urban environment more objectively, and comes to propose conservatively. However, we found that as for iconic expression related to the proposition phase, the five senses are maintained.