Drawing Life: Spontaneous Biophilic Imagery in Children’s Responses to an Open-Ended Prompt — A Pilot Study from Blue Blocks Montessori School, Hyderabad, India (DATASET)

This dataset contains structured observational coding of children's drawings produced in response to the open-ended prompt \"Draw a place where life can exist,\" administered during a single session at Blue Blocks School, Hyderabad, India. The study is a pilot investigation into biophilic orientation in children — that is, the degree to which children spontaneously represent natural versus built environments when asked to imagine a life-sustaining place. File 001 contains the primary dataset: 81 participants across three age groups (6–8, 9–12, and 13–16 years), coded across 30 binary element categories organized into five domains — water elements, plant/vegetation elements, animal/living creature elements, sky/light/atmospheric elements, and human-made/built environment elements. Each drawing was assessed for dominant orientation, overall environment classification, setting type, and total biophilic element count. Observer surprise notes are included where recorded. File 002 contains a second independent observer's coding of a subset of 22 drawings (12 from the Erdkinder adolescent cohort, 10 overlapping with File 001), collected for inter-rater reliability testing. The coding instrument and element categories are identical across both files. This dataset was produced under the Blue Blocks Micro Research Institute's participatory micro-research methodology. All data collection, coding, and anonymisation procedures followed the Blue Blocks Embedded Observation Protocol (BEOP v1.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19087415) and the Micro Research Ethics Framework (MREF v1.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19047669).本数据集包含针对儿童绘画的结构化观察编码数据，这些绘画由参与印度海得拉巴蓝积木学校（Blue Blocks School）单次课堂活动的儿童，响应开放式提示“绘制一个可以孕育生命的场所”创作完成。本研究为一项针对儿童亲生物倾向（biophilic orientation）的先导性调查——即儿童在被要求设想一个可维系生命的场所时，自发呈现自然环境与人工建造环境的倾向程度。 文件001为主数据集，涵盖3个年龄组（6-8岁、9-12岁、13-16岁）共81名参与者的绘画数据，按照划分为5大领域的30个二元元素类别完成编码：水体元素、植物/植被元素、动物/生物元素、天空/光线/大气元素，以及人工建造环境元素。每份绘画均被评估了主导倾向、整体环境分类、场景类型和亲生物元素总数量，同时收录了观察者的现场备注（若有记录）。 文件002包含第二位独立编码者对22份绘画子集的编码结果，其中12份来自Erdkinder青少年组，10份与文件001的样本重叠，该数据集用于评分者信度检验。两份文件所使用的编码工具与元素分类规则完全一致。 本数据集基于蓝积木微研究院（Blue Blocks Micro Research Institute）的参与式微研究方法编制。所有数据采集、编码及匿名化流程均遵循《蓝积木嵌入式观察规程（BEOP v1.0，DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19087415）》与《微研究伦理框架（MREF v1.0，DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19047669）》。