Educational Media for Early Childhood on Waste Management to Encourage Zero Waste Living Sustainably

Visual Communication Design Department, School of Design, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia 11480

^* Corresponding author: swulandari@binus.edu

Abstract

Marine pollution comes from waste and brings a solemn issue since the utmost debris in the sea comes from urban and residential household waste. The family has a critical role in reducing household waste, which can further decrease the negative impact on marine life. Meanwhile, education on waste management is still insignificant for children and their parents. It is necessary to have a source of information for children from an early age to encourage awareness to implement an environmentally conscious life. Illustrated books were chosen as learning media for young children to develop their imagination and behavior. The research focused on how to design educational illustration books for early childhood education about the marine environment and its relation to daily life in their home environment in a sustainable manner. This research used a qualitative method with Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach: inspiration, ideas, and implementation. The output is the book’s design (as the prominent article), besides supporting work, including Instagram feeds, stickers, and x-banners as promotional media with syntactic visuals with the book. By fusing contemplative themes cheerfully and humorously combined with encouraging emotional connections, the lessons presented in this book could be more accepted pleasantly by children.