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You can find the transcript through this link.

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Are you interested in involving the next generation in urban decision-making?

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Summary of the thesis titled Actualising children’s ideas for health-promoting neighbourhoods through impactful co-design: insights from children and adult decision-makers from 2024 by Tiffany Williams, published at The University of Auckland as her PhD thesis.

This is a great preparation to our next interview with Tiff Williams in episode 268 talking about urban regeneration.

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to highlight why children are important for urban futures. This thesis investigates how to actualise children’s ideas for health-promoting neighbourhoods from co-design.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

1. The proposed framework for impactful co-design with children is centred on empowering their voices, ensuring influence in decision-making, and carefully selecting diverse participants, both children and adults.
2. Involving children in co-designing the future is crucial as their unique perspectives can shape tangible, health-promoting neighbourhoods, and it ensures their voices are valued in decisions affecting them now, not just in the future.
3. Children’s ideas on health-promoting neighbourhoods highlight topics like human connections, nature, safety, and non-human relations such as animals and the environment.

You can find the thesis through this link.

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.114 – Interview with Kelly Boucher about involving children in experiencing their environment
• No.262 – Interview with Ishara Sahama about community engagement

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