Co-creation: involving everybody. An ethical dimension of the design process and a discussion of solutions between different actors with practical and creative goals

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10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_23How to use a DOI?

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Public spaces; Children’s rights; Urban design

Abstract

Public spaces have become fragile environments where minority groups, children and their caretakers are the most affected by socio-spatial inequalities. The real and perceived insecurity has been restricting minors’ presence to institutionalised places designed especially for them. This form of integration denies the educational function of the city as a place to appropriate with personal interpretation.

However, we can still find proximity inside the neighbourhood unit and make it visible through children’s actions and interactions with the public space. Hence, their participation in urban public policy design and inclusive perspective should be the benchmark for improving cities’ public places.

While this movement has engaged academics and has been advocated by municipalities, it has had little to no influence on design and planning agendas yet.

Appointing children into decision-making positions encouraging organisations and businesses to promote a friendlier public realm, is the way to a fairer society.

The urban laboratory in Contumil and Lagarteiro neighbourhoods’ public spaces in Porto, Portugal, intends to investigate whether it is possible to formulate more inclusive urban policies, starting from the exploration of co-responsibility in social housing districts, considering children as indicators of urban inequality and as determinants of inclusive urban design.

Measuring children’s right to the city, as the right to inclusiveness, producing an analysis-reading tool and a road map for all who want Southern Europe to move forward in improving everyday urban opportunities for children, offering a template for effective, long-term action for the lack of inclusion in public life.

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AU  - Elena Parnisari
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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration (NATiURB 2022)
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