The way you are connected to the place goes beyond just yourself.
In this cross-continental conversation with Viviana, she shares parts of her ongoing practice and passion for creating more playful inclusive and liveable cities. As co-founder of Huasipichanga her team works to bring children into the core of the design processes of place. Her organisation encourages and includes the curiosity and lived experience from all stakeholders through public space activations and interventions in the city.
Episode Notes:
Through her practice we learn tools that can enhance the role of the municipality. They do this by iterative processes including 10 day workshops and 100 architecture students from all over Latin America, or a long-term commitment with a school meeting each week for 25 weeks.
Child-friendly cities in relationship to spatial science mean a commitment to maintenance and replicability. When done successfully we can achieve safe passages for every where.
Currently , placemaking seems to be a movement working towards being more collaborative. We can teach children and a wider range of people how to collect data, how to meet the neighbours, and survey their parents. The way the money is moving around the municipality and partnerships needs to move toward a more neighbourhood oriented practice really bringing in the community through schools and to have professionals supporting community, on the ground.
Together we can apply child friendly principles in our cities... Providing children an independent opportunity for safe mobility says a lot.
The first step is awareness
Episode Links:
Spanish guide translated to ten languages
Learn to apply child friendly principles in your city
THE CITY AT EYE LEVEL by Stipo
Create a different level of awareness through games and through playfulness
The Faculty of Spatial Sciences
Provides education and research within Geography, Demography and Planning.
The research theme is Wellbeing, Innovation and Spatial Transformation
Iterative urban strategies
Regenerating public spaces and bringing people together