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“Children are not seen as urban citizens.” It was a great discussion with Dinah Bornat, Jo McCafferty and Jacob Willson at LSE Cities tonight, discussing what makes good housing for young children and caregivers 🏡 Read more about it in ‘All to Play For’ by Dinah Bornat in February

Join Dinah Bornat with Jo McCafferty, Director at Levitt Bernstein and Jacob Willson, Head of Design at The Guinness Partnership, next week at LSE Cities where they will be discussing what makes good urban housing for young children and caregivers. The panel discussion will be chaired by David Madden, Associate Professor at LSE Cities. The discussion will explore universal concepts for supportive living spaces for young children's healthy development, including safety, stability, community, accessibility, and car-free environments. You can join online or in person. Follow the link for more details: https://lnkd.in/e9PwcMQU Date: Thursday 24th October 2024 Time: 6:30-8:00PM Venue: Online or In-person at LSE Marshall Building #Urban95Academy #housing #architecture #placemaking #communities

Check out this article by Magali Thomson, making a case to look beyond the red boundary site line, and to make a collaborative effort to tackle neglected streets, shared space and public realm in London. A massive thank you for referencing the work of the Public Realm Inclusivity Panel we are facilitating with The Earls Court Development Company, and how this model can be applied in other public realm advisory panels to provide guidance on establishing effective partnerships, potential funding mechanisms, and efficient processes which enable change. Read the full article via the link below👇 https://lnkd.in/enUusAM2

If you'd like to learn more about how to use the Voice Opportunity Power Toolkit in a project, we have created a brand new case studies page as part of the website relaunch, where we show you a range of real life housing, mixed-use, open space, and high street projects all over the UK, demonstrating how the toolkit has been used in different ways to facilitate engagement. "We are Young Chingford" demonstrates how to use the toolkit on a town centre, starting with a really thorough investigation into the lived experience of children and young people to help define a brief for child friendly design proposals and borough wide strategic recommendations, providing new ways of thinking about town centre public space. Engaging with over 100 students from 3 local schools, activities included walking tours of the town centre, conducting a RAG analysis of the high street and producing a brief for the new town centre. Images credits: Felicity Crawshaw To read more case studies, and the rest of the toolkit, head to the https://lnkd.in/ekR_r8yZ website! Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) Sport England Grosvenor

We have been working on updating the Voice Opportunity Power Toolkit, a toolkit to involve young people in the making and managing of their neighbourhoods. As part of the relaunch, we have been working on a whole new session, which details how young people can be involved in the making and managing of these future neighbourhoods. With a focus on establishing impact of youth engagement beyond the sessions, discussing how youth-friendly community spaces are designed and managed and teaching young people skills to foster conversation between young people and their community, Session 6 demonstrates the importance of engagement beyond a planning submission. Where common engagement typically focuses on discussions about pre delivery, there is a great deal of opportunity to understand the experience of users in the spaces they will occupy post delivery, and whilst a new development might not be built for years, Session 6 sets participants up to think about it from this earlier stage. To learn more about Session 6, and the rest of the toolkit, head to the https://lnkd.in/ekR_r8yZ website! Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) Grosvenor Sport England

💡Toolkit testing: Chicago Our final toolkit destination for our toolkit with the Van Leer Foundation will be at Chicago. We will be engaging with a community at an existing development called Barbara Jean Wright Court Apartments, recently acquired and refurbished by Jonathan Rose Companies. Here lives a family mixed-income community, and the sessions will take place at their brand new Clubhouse, asking parents and carers about living in BJ Wright through mapping exercises, drawing exercises and thorough group discussions. As we're new to Chicago, it will be just as much us learning from them as they will be from us, and we can't wait to take our toolkit international and find out more about how to engage in new communities and contexts!

💡Toolkit testing: East Croydon The third destination for our toolkit testing with the Van Leer Foundation is East Croydon. HUB and Bridges Property Funds with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris have recently delivered Queen's Quarter, a development with 513 new homes and public realm in Queen's Gardens. We tested our toolkit there to see how parents and carers with children under 5 engage with the neighbourhood, their homes and the public realm in the wider context of East Croydon, before we zoomed back into the site at Queen's Quarter with AHMM. Stay tuned to learn about the findings and the destination for our final toolkit test...

Everyone should read this! 📣 https://lnkd.in/ejP2JkkP Amazing article by Dinah Bornat and the ZCD ARCHITECTS LTD team about the crucial importance of creating #neighbourhoods with #children and young #people at the very top of the #design hierarchy. Thank you for referencing our film, The White Flats (created with Anna Price and Rachel Stevenson) which demonstrates the lived experience of #residents of all ages at Highgate Newtown Phase 1, and how it really does work for children, young people, their #parents and #households of all types. You can watch the film here: https://lnkd.in/eBjUgPMd Thank you too to the Architects’ Journal for prioritising this issue and supporting all those in the profession who are leading this #conversation.

Start with Children Summit 2024 This week Dinah Bornat is in Bratislava along mayors, planners, architects, designers, and business leaders from around the world to discuss child-friendly cities at Start with Children Summit. Tomorrow she will be joining a panel discussion: “Designing with Children: Participation, Voice, Agency”, talking about success cases designing for the needs of children and caregivers. Visit the link below for more information: https://lnkd.in/dAHjbP5R ... #StartWithChildrenSummit2024 #ChildFriendlyCities #UrbanDesign #PanelDiscussion #Under5s #Caregivers #Participation #Voice #Agency