Engaging Children to Co-create Outdoor Play Activities for Place-making

Slingerland, Geertje; Lukosch, Stephan; Brazier, Frances M. T.

doi:10.1145/3385010.3385017

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“…This encouraged the creation of a research design that could facilitate the use of interactive sessions with children, wherein they could discuss their perceptions about a range of topics relating to place-making. The rationale for employing this approach stemmed from the notion that, by understanding how children perceive place and their role in shaping it, we could reveal specific issues that may inform solutions to how place-making processes should engage with children (Green, 2015;Slingerland et al, 2020). Such a design also enabled a participatory approach, whereby the children were not simply informants but acted as co-researchers by becoming actively involved in the operationalisation of the research.…”

Section: Children As Activistsmentioning

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‘We live here and play here, we should have a say’: An exploration of children's perceptions of place‐making in the Market community, Belfast

McAteer,

Loudon,

Higgins

2023

Children & Society

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Children learn through interaction with their surroundings, meaning that their experiences of place directly contribute to their personal development. Despite this, the needs of the youth are rarely factored into development plans. This is a major obstacle to the sustainable and inclusive development of places. Examining potential pathways to correct this issue, this paper presents the findings of research conducted with young people from the Market area of Belfast. The research engaged with two groups (n = 11) in a participatory investigation of how young people engage with the built environment. Using several participatory methods, including narrative walkabouts, mapping exercises and semi‐structured group interviews, the children engaged as co‐researchers. We link to idea of ‘third places’ to frame our analysis, demonstrating how children in the Market community have strong opinions of how space is, and should be, designed and managed. We reveal interesting dynamics regarding the children's perceived exclusion from the city centre and concerns about how poor planning is harming their community's public health. We conclude by reflecting upon some of the children's proposed solutions, as well as by presenting two outcomes of our study that hint at the potential future role of young people in co‐designing the built environment.

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Section: Children As Activistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘We live here and play here, we should have a say’: An exploration of children's perceptions of place‐making in the Market community, Belfast

McAteer,

Loudon,

Higgins

2023

Children & Society

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“…In terms of empowerment, the distributed setting benefits the autonomy of participants. Power relations and the group dynamic may be of less influence (Holtzblatt and Jones 1993), and participants experience more agency to participate in a way they see fit (Slingerland et al 2020a). Enabling such tailored and personalised participation is mainly appropriate in small group settings, as for bigger distributed projects more structured approaches and processes are required to support the asynchronous way of working (Gumm et al 2006;Walsh 2011).…”

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Participatory Design Going Digital: Challenges and Opportunities for Distributed Place-Making

Slingerland

Murray

Lukosch

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COVID-19 has urged researchers to explore new options for distributed participatory design, as physical meetings and workshops became unfeasible. This situation posed new challenges but also opportunities, in particular with respect to engagement and inclusion. This paper focuses on distributed PD with Irish teenagers to support place-making during this period: to build relationships with each other and the community. In a two-week online summer school, teenagers explored a concern or highlighted a unique aspect of their local community and designed digital artworks in response. Activities and materials were designed to support reflection, empowerment, inclusiveness, emergence, and playfulness for participatory place-making. Analysis of the summer school provides insights and guidance on the design of online PD for engaging experiences, especially in the context of place-making.

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“…For example, Crivellaro et al (2015) started with desk research on the city and then moved into the neighborhoods to contact locals, build relationships, identify issues, and involve professional stakeholders to move forward in addressing those issues. Fieldwork to connect with the context and community is an essential activity in this type of research (Slingerland et al, 2020a).…”

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Urban Play and the Playable City: A Critical Perspective

2022

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Engaging Children to Co-create Outdoor Play Activities for Place-making

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

‘We live here and play here, we should have a say’: An exploration of children's perceptions of place‐making in the Market community, Belfast

‘We live here and play here, we should have a say’: An exploration of children's perceptions of place‐making in the Market community, Belfast

Participatory Design Going Digital: Challenges and Opportunities for Distributed Place-Making

Urban Play and the Playable City: A Critical Perspective

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