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Thematic Area: Children participation and design

Involving children in the design process can bring a wealth of advantages to built environment projects, empowering the children and creating a sense of ownership. While adults may build places for children such as playgrounds, these places may not meet children’s needs. Children should therefore be actively involved in designing and planning spaces that are meant for children.

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The Benefits of Participatory Evaluation for Children and Youth

This study shows how involving young people in participatory projects has a profound impact on the projects and on the children involved. This paper looks at four different projects working with children in the USA, and the results and information that was gathered as a result of young peoples participatory evaluation of the programmes.
  • Publication year: 2001
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Children’s Participation in the Context of Forced Migration

This paper highlights the challenges of involving children in the context of forced migration. Carrying out participatory research in refugee camps is extremely difficult for a huge range of reasons, but involving children can be particularly problematical. This paper outlines the reasons for this, but also highlights why it is so important to involve people…
  • Publication year: 2001
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Making Spaces for Children. Planning for Post-Disaster Reconstruction with Children and Their Families

This report explains why is important – in contest of crisis – to involve children and families in the planning of their physical living environment, and how to do it. This handbook aims at contributing to disaster response reconstruction programmes that not only rebuild the physical living environment but that strengthen the capacity of communities…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Report
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Places for Children – Children’s Places

This article highlights the difference between places created by adults for children (places for children) and spaces that children themselves consider to be play spaces (children’s places). This is an important concept to keep in mind when co-designing social infrastructures with and for children. In their everyday lives, children largely stay within and relate to…
  • Publication year: 2004
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Co-Design with Kids. A Toolkit for Designers

This website presents an approach and design tools for co-design with children aged 8-12. It is initiated by researchers from TU Delft to publish results from the research project ‘Co-design with kids – early acquisition of 21stcentury skills’ (2016-2019). The contents of this website are based upon research. They originate from cases in schools, with…
  • Content Type: Toolkit

The Techniques of Participatory Design for Inclusive Public Space Provision in Kampung Kota of Surakarta

The technique of participatory design is essential for the future development knowledge of architecture to inform the improvement of architectural education and practice in Asia. Therefore to provide of inclusive public spaces for the community, this research article presents a field study of the usage of community participation design method in design and planning to…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Steps to Engaging Young Children in Research. Vol. 2: The Researcher Toolkit

The Researcher Toolkit encourages researchers planning to work with young children to consider not only the types of methods needed to answer different research questions, but also the context in which the methods are to be applied and the skills that will be required to use them. A collection of methods provides a number of…
  • Publication year: 2014
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Child Rights Toolkit. Module 3: Child Participation

By providing practical guidance on how to take a rights-based, child-focused approach, this toolkit aims to ensure that children’s rights as well as initiatives to promote the well-being of all children can be effectively integrated and applied across programmes of bilateral and multilateral development assistance. This toolkit has been developed primarily for development professionals working…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict: A Systematic Review of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

Over one billion children under the age of 18 live in countries affected by armed conflict. This systematic review replicates an earlier study, aiming to provide a comprehensive update of the most current developments in interventions for children affected by armed conflict. Although the number of publications and level of evidence has improved since the…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation

This book is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental organizations, educators, youth-serving agencies, youth advocates, and others who are involved in the community development process. It offers…
  • Publication year: 2002
  • Content Type: Book

Practical Toolkit on Children’s Participation

This toolkit provides practical tools on how to implement children’s participation in: 1) research, 2) programming, 3) advocacy, 4) communications, and 5) fundraising.
  • Content Type: Toolkit

The State of the World’s Children 2003

The State of the World’s Children 2003 reports on child participation – the ‘right’ of every child at every age, the responsibility of governments, organizations and families, and a way to promote tolerance, respect for human rights, an appreciation of diversity and peace. The report showcases examples from every region of the world of how…
  • Publication year: 2003
  • Content Type: Report

Childhood Interrupted: Children’s Voices from the Rohingya Crisis

The study was conducted with 200 children (60 from host community and 140 from Rohingya Refugee community) and 40 mothers (10 from host community and 30 refugees) in Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) to gain insight into their daily lives and to listen to what children wanted others to know about. Questions did not revolve around Rohingya…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Report

Involving Children in Decision Making

The aim of this guide is to provide organisations with guidelines and associated practical activities to involve children under the age of 12 years in decision making within their services. This kit contains information for effective participation for service organisations and government agencies as well as practical ideas that organisations can apply to their services…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Youth-Centred Design Toolkit

The Youth-Centred Design Toolkit provides tools and techniques to include child and youth voices in the development of meaningful programming that reflects the real needs of today’s kids. This Youth-Centred Design (YCD) Toolkit helps teams of colleagues, children, youth, their families or caregivers and organizational partners explore and design solutions together. The YCD toolkit has…
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Practice Standards in Children’s Participation

The report provides a framework and operational guidelines for field workers who want to support children’s participation. The seven standards discussed are: An ethical approach –  transparency, honesty and accountability; Children’s participation is relevant and voluntary; A child-friendly, enabling environment; Equality of opportunity; Staff are effective and confident; Participation promotes the safety and protection of…
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Content Type: Report

Diseño Participativo de Espacios Públicos con Perspectiva de Infancia

This document presents the value of participatory methodologies to integrate girls, boys and adolescents’ knowledge and perceptions, as an input for the design of urban public spaces. The experience of the Sustainable Urban Development Centre (CEDEUS) in Villa Marta Brunet (Puente Alto, Santiago, Chile) as a case.
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Toolkit

The Children of Kabul – Discussions with Afghan Families

The study explores three main topics : well-being goals for Afghan children; the threats children face in achieving well-being; and the coping resources children already have for dealing with their difficulties.The findings of the research are relevant for all who seek to provide assistance to Afghan children – and war-affected children worldwide – as they…
  • Publication year: 2003
  • Content Type: Report

Children and Young People’s Participation (CYPP) Training Workshop Guide

This manual is designed to support organisations to promote children and young people’s participation and inclusion in project planning, implementation and evaluation. This manual helps facilitate dialogue and an exchange of ideas between the organisation’s staff and the adults and children involved. The training programme also allows to train a team of the staff, adults…
  • Publication year: 2013
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Landscape as Playscape: The Effects of Natural Environments on Children’s Play and Motor Development

This study investigated the impacts of playing in a natural environment on motor development in children. A quasi-experimental study was conducted on five-, six-, and seven-year old children with an experimental group playing in a natural environment and a control group playing in a more traditional playground. When provided with a natural landscape in which…
  • Publication year: 2004
  • Content Type: Academic paper

Youth Participation Best Practices Toolkit: Part II

This is the second part of the Youth Participation Toolkit, coordinated by Save the Children. It contains tools, methods, tips, exercises, and training workshops for improving youth participation. The Education for Youth Empowerment (EYE) programme targets a relatively wide age group, 12-24 year olds, in various countries. The toolkit is rather generic so prospective users…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Qualitative Research on Children’s Play: A Review of Recent Literature

This book chapter is a review of the recent, English-language qualitative research on children’s play. It focuses on the place play has in children’s experience and giving sense to the world. Thus, it will leave aside the large and important body of research on the effect or outcomes (benefits and possible harmful consequences) of play…
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Content Type: Book

Don’t Just Listen- Do Something! Lessons Learned about Governance from the Growing Up in Cities Project

Eight practitioners in the Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO reflect on what they have learned in terms of how to move government officials and leaders of civil society to view children and youth as partners in creating livable cities. They describe their experience in participatory action research with children and youth, how they…
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Content Type: Academic paper

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