Green Concept Award

Green Concepts

Natural Crayon Kit

Create and learn in a sustainible way

Winner in the Audience Award Category 

Earthy Palette is an experimental kit for children age 7 or more, teaching sustainability through the creation of natural crayons. The included manual guides kids step by step with clear instructions to create their own colored crayons, using waste from home and natural ingredients in the kit. This process promotes a circular view of materials and is based on STEAM methodology, it integrates arts with biology and chemistry concepts, offering age-appropriate explanations on relevant environmental issues like the circular economy.

Jury Statement: Making your own wax crayons from household waste and natural colours is not only fun for children, but also imparts knowledge through independent experimentation. STEM and STEAM methodologies are becoming increasingly important, and in ‘Earthy Palette’, Sofia Catalan Garcia combines art with biological and chemical concepts, offering age-appropriate explanations of environmental topics such as the circular economy.

Company/Institution
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
With the degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development you become a qualified professional to develop industrial design activities and create new products, concepts and services that add value to the production system. You obtain the necessary projective experience for the planning and development of the whole life process of a product, and the key competences to establish and develop the aspects that facilitate production and commercialization in addition to those wich help to analise the social en environmental impact of the solution.
Country
Spain
Designer(s)
Sofia Catalan Garcia
Sofia Catalan finished her studies in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering at the UPC in 2024. This project is her Final Degree Project, in which she seeks to promote industrial design as a social and environmental tool. Through this approach, her goal is to train and educate future generations, helping them to be aware of current environmental emergencies and existing alternatives. The work was developed during 2024 and included a study on the creation of the waxes, carrying out tests to ensure their performance, as well as a practical part with children.
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