TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-Generating Urban Knowledge with Children in Istanbul
T2 - Children as Urban Investigators and Problem Solvers
AU - Ataol, Özlemnur
AU - Krishnamurthy, Sukanya
AU - Druta, Oana
AU - van Wesemael, Pieter
PY - 2023/3/8
Y1 - 2023/3/8
N2 - Children’s participation has been recognized asessential in participatory urban planning towards creating child-focused urban environments. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to address children’s role in urban planning, particularly in contexts where a culture of participation is missing from everyday practice. The COVID-19 pandemic posed additional challenges in executing participatory research. In this article, we applied a methodology of online artwork elicitations with ten children from Istanbul. From our co-generated research findings, we argue that children are valuable social agents not only in urban planning but also in the fight against urgent and dramatic challenges facingour planet. Children’s participation better informssolutionswhen children guide knowledge generation.
AB - Children’s participation has been recognized asessential in participatory urban planning towards creating child-focused urban environments. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to address children’s role in urban planning, particularly in contexts where a culture of participation is missing from everyday practice. The COVID-19 pandemic posed additional challenges in executing participatory research. In this article, we applied a methodology of online artwork elicitations with ten children from Istanbul. From our co-generated research findings, we argue that children are valuable social agents not only in urban planning but also in the fight against urgent and dramatic challenges facingour planet. Children’s participation better informssolutionswhen children guide knowledge generation.
KW - children's participation
KW - urban planning
KW - knowledge co-generation
KW - participatory research
KW - digital tools
KW - artwork elicitation
KW - Istanbul
UR - https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/cye/article/view/6965
M3 - Article
SN - 1546-2250
VL - 33
SP - 1
EP - 24
JO - Children, Youth and Environments
JF - Children, Youth and Environments
IS - 1
ER -