Birch, Joanna, Parnell, Rosie, Patsarika, Maria and Šorn, Maša (2017) Participating Together: Dialogic Space between Children and Architects in the Design Process. Children's Geographies, 15 (2). pp. 224-236. ISSN 1473-3285
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Abstract
Typically enmeshed in the ‘voice’ perspective within children’s participation debates, there are currently sporadic insights into designer–child creative dialogue. Drawing on the findings of a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, this paper articulates moments of dialogue between architects and children in spatial design processes, whose spatial and symbolic qualities help to understand the interactions and meeting of cultures. Several authors have discussed the transformational potential for adults and children to ‘co-author’ identities in dialogical contexts. The paper builds on this body of research to suggest that design dialogue offers the space, literally and metaphorically, for children and architects to participate together. Identifying the qualities of the dialogic design space as potentially present in children’s and adults’ everyday cultures and interdependent relations, it is proposed that this dialogical framework might diversify architects’ and children’s roles in the design process and enrich practices and perceptions of design participation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dialogue, designer–child collaboration, children’s participation, design process |
Subjects: | L700 Human and Social Geography |
Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Architecture and Built Environment |
Depositing User: | Becky Skoyles |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2016 10:28 |
Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 03:27 |
URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/27825 |
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