MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION AND MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION IN PRIMARY EDUCATION. EXPLORING THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND WAYS OF COMMUNICATION THE ‘BOX OF SENSES’

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  • Katerina Kokkinaki PhD Candidate, University of West Attica, Greece
  • Zoe Georgiadou Professor, University of West Attica, Greece

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https://doi.org/10.46827/ejae.v9i1.5173

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This study investigates the ways that children feel free to express themselves and communicate with others through their aesthetic development. Multisensory perception helps children to discover their senses and multimodal expression gives them ways and tools to communicate their emotions and ideas, in the way that they want or that they are able to. ‘Box of Senses’ is a collection of objects that each child makes on its own and through it, it has the opportunity to communicate the way he feels the world, within the community to which he belongs. Objects of everyday life reveal that sensory perception can recall memories, ideas, and emotions. But how do our senses interact with linguistic communication? What color is a word and what does a picture taste like? How do the image and writing work are combined together to describe the senses and ultimately communicate one’s experience? Can all these distinct fragments of our everyday sensory experience be narrated by a haiku poem?

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    Katerina Kokkinaki is a graduate of the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008) with a degree in painting and an Integrated Master’s degree from the same school. She is a graduate of the Interior Architecture Department of the School of Graphic Arts and Artistic Studies of West Attica University (2000). She is a PhD candidate from 2021 at the University of West Attica. She has taught art in primary and secondary schools for the last fifteen years, such as the Experimental Primary Schools of Piraeus and the Art School of Keratsini. As a visual artist, she has held three solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, international art fairs, and experimental festivals. She participates in European projects and public opinion surveys. As a visual artist, she has held solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, international art fairs, and experimental festivals.

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    Zoe Georgiadou is a Professor of Interior Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture, Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture, University of West Attica. She holds PhD in Architecture and Sociology of Spaces (2001) and a BSc (with integrated MSc) as Architect Engineer (1986) in National Technical University of Athens and BA in Interior Designer (1980) from Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She has taught Interior Architecture and Sociology of spaces at the Department of Interior Architecture since 1981. She is elected academic director of the Laboratory of Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture, University of West Attica. She is the Chief Editor of the peer-reviewed international e-journal Arts| Design| Culture, published by the Laboratory of Design and 5 European Universities. She is the author of five books, and several journal and conference articles. She has given invited lectures at universities and is an active member of social co-operations. She has been elected Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture for the period 2010-2014.

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