This document outlines plans for a seminar to design age-appropriate illustrated storybooks that teach personal safety and emotional awareness to urban children ages 6-12. The goals are to impart lasting lessons through an engaging format and address the lack of a common standard for such materials. Over several sessions, the organizers will consult experts, survey children and parents, develop story and visual concepts, and test drafts iteratively before finalizing and publishing the books. The seminar aims to empower children by helping them understand and communicate their feelings while staying safe.

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DIPLOMA SEMINAR 1

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THE DESIGN BRIEF
to generate and design “age-appropriate”and attractive content for 6
to 12 year old urban children on personal safety and the importance of
understanding and articulating feelings.

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EXPECTED OUTCOME
Illustrated Story Books - Children relish stories, they remember them
vividly and imparting information through stories could have a more
lasting impact on the child.

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Why am I choosing something for the child and parent equation over
the classroom setup?
- Parent consent and institution hierarchy
- Parent - Child communication lag
- Classroom material already exists

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Why is this material directed towards the child?
- Age appropriate content - ease in comprehension
- Understand, remember and recall
- Beneficial to empower the single child.

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Why focus on the importance of emotions then?
- Identifying changes in body when overcome
by different emotions.
- Being able to express and put into words
how a child is feeling gives them more control
over their lives.

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Clara Raphael - Head Of Child Participation,
- Need of the hour
- Interdependency of organisations
Vidya Reddy and Nancy
- Lack of “one common voice”
- Poorly designed material
- Compare and contrast
RESOURCE PEOPLE

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THE DROWNING
Read, Listen, Talk, Drown
Wholistic perspectives
Questionnaire Personal Stories Documentaries

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SOME RESPONSES
In retrospect, what factors could have been different, that would have shielded you from being victimised?
Sex and sexuality education. If my parents were aware, and made me aware, I could have still suffered
through this, but would have come out of the trauma in a few years rather than waiting for 11 years.
From your own experience, if you had to talk to children on self protection, what key points would you focus
on?
I would not talk to children. I would first speak to parents. Because that’s where the real problem is.
Parents are not open about these horrors. Parents would have to open their minds and then alone can we
expect children to open their minds about child sexual abuse.

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MATERIALS TO LEARNINGS
Pages from the book - ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’
Learning: Captivating illustration and good storytelling can make heavy and important messages on safety child friendly and approachable.

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Pages from the book - ‘I SAID NO!’
Learning: Discussion on what kind of people can or cannot touch you, and the correlation with emotions, and “feelings”.

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Pages from the book - ‘‘A Very Touching Book For Little People and For Big People by Jan Hindman.
“Through our Purple Faces, we teach children that we are uncomfortable and irritated with their sexual
questions. From an early age they learn shame and embarrasment about sexual issues.

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So is it okay to mention genitilia?
Honestly, now i am a little confused.
- Tulir doesn’t think its okay - Cuss words in local languages.
- Enfold thinks we should call it the place from where urine and feces comes out.

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THE WAY FORWARD
july 20 to oct 8
- Identify and interact with child psychologists/psychiatrists
- Interact with children on their existing knowledge on safety and emotion
-Interview parents on their knowledge on the subject.

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Aug 8th - Seminar 2
Aug 23rd - Seminar 3
- Generate, develop content under guidance of children’s storybook authors.
- Making dirty prototypes of form.
- Start developing the visual look and feel- i.e.- colour palettes, typography styles, creating
mood boards and set on the illustration style.

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- User testing form and content with children.
- Begin iterating and work on final prototypes.

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- Buffer time
- Final user testing and production
- Documentation

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THANK YOU

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