HEWI MAG / School and kindergarten
World Children’s Day 2025: Children’s rights – building blocks for democracy!
A sign for children’s rights!
World Children’s Day on 20 September draws attention to the rights and needs of children. This year’s motto “Children’s rights – building blocks for democracy!” focuses on the importance of children’s rights for social development. The motto emphasises how important it is to actively involve young people and give them opportunities to help shape the future.
Numerous campaigns and projects highlight where there is still a need for action in the implementation of children’s rights. At the same time, creative contributions are made that make children’s perspectives visible and promote an exchange on how spaces can be designed to provide children with security, orientation and participation.
The consideration of children’s needs also plays a central role in the design of everyday living environments – such as educational institutions or public spaces. The aim is to create environments in which children feel safe, comfortable and taken seriously.
Innovative solutions for children’s areas
Rooms designed with children in mind are an essential part of learning, play and childcare environments. To coincide with World Children’s Day 2025, the topic is once again taking centre stage: Particularly in public facilities – from daycare centres and schools to accessibility toilets – functionality, safety and a clear design are among the key requirements. HEWI offers well thought-through product solutions that are specifically tailored to the needs of children and are at the same time designed to be inclusive.
Safety and comfort: The HEWI baby changing table
The new HEWI baby changing table is tailored to the requirements of public sanitary rooms and, in the context of World Children’s Day 2025, shows how design and functionality enable child-friendly solutions. The easy-care PUR lying surface in iron grey, combined with sturdy metal components in matt grain white, ensures durable and secure fittings. Integrated shock absorption supports controlled handling, while practical details such as damped lowering and a clamping compartment make everyday life easier – for a changing area that is designed to be well thought-through and user-friendly.
Colour meets function: Barbie™ x HEWI collection
The Barbie™ x HEWI collection sets targeted colour accents that support the design of child-friendly rooms. Pink is used deliberately – not as a stereotypical colour, but as an identity-creating element that offers children visual orientation in everyday life. In the frame of World Children’s Day 2025, it becomes particularly clear how colours can contribute to atmosphere and perceptibility. The collection includes cloakroom and sanitary elements that create a friendly environment and promote orientation.
Timeless and versatile: HEWI ICONIC
HEWI ICONIC stands for durable design that harmoniously combines form, function and quality. The range impresses in children’s areas with clear lines and a reduced, yet kid-friendly style. Be it in the sanitary area, in the cloakroom or for accessibility elements – ICONIC can be used in a variety of ways and offers great design freedom. The importance of visual orientation is particularly evident in the context of World Children’s Day 2025: With friendly colour combinations such as aqua blue, steel blue and may green as well as apple green, may green and coral, ICONIC not only creates an appealing environment, but also supports children’s spatial understanding and emotional perception.
Focus on child-friendly design: Articles from the HEWI MAG
The design of rooms centred on children’s needs requires special attention. Aspects such as safety, functionality, orientation and inclusion play a central role. The HEWI MAG articles will show how architectural and product-related solutions can help to create child-friendly environments.
These topics will take centre stage on the occasion of World Children’s Day 2025. The following articles highlight different perspectives and challenges when planning and equipping facilities for children – from sanitary areas and baby-changing solutions to sensitive design concepts.
Sanitary areas with a system: WC partitions designed for children
An article in HEWI MAG shows how WC partitions can be designed specifically for nurseries – functionally, safely and with children’s needs in mind. In keeping with World Children’s Day 2025, the focus is on child-friendly interior design: Materials, heights and colour combinations are specifically designed to create an environment that promotes hygiene, safety and independence.
Focus on washrooms: Hygiene and independence in kindergarten
The HEWI MAG article shows how a well thought-through kindergarten waschraum encourages children’s independence and at the same time fulfils the highest hygiene requirements. In keeping with World Children’s Day 2025, it shows how ergonomic design, safe materials and colour orientation can create child-friendly sanitary rooms – as places of learning, health and daily interaction.
Changing table in the public WC: Safe, space-saving and hygienic
In the HEWI MAG you can find out how baby changing tables in public WCs can be planned and implemented in a safe, space-saving and hygienic way. On the occasion of World Children’s Day 2025, it becomes clear how important functional nappy-changing solutions are for a family-friendly infrastructure in publicly accessible spaces.
Inclusive architecture: Design with sensory needs in mind
How spaces are designed has a significant influence on how children can move, learn and develop in them – especially when different ways of perception are taken into account. A comprehensive article in the HEWI MAG shows how autism-sensitive design can be understood as an integral part of inclusive architecture. In keeping with World Children’s Day 2025, it shows how targeted colour schemes, clear room structures and material-conscious planning can promote participation on a sensory level – especially for children on the autism spectrum.
Rooms that think for themselves
World Children’s Day 2025 is a reminder of how important it is to create living spaces that take the needs of children seriously – functional, safe and appealing at the same time. Be it in the sanitary area, in the colour scheme or in the retreat room: Well thought-through architecture and targeted product solutions can make a significant contribution to children feeling comfortable, orientated and able to act independently. The approaches and products presented show how planning becomes real participation – day by day, room by room.
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