Museum designers, curators and educators have traditionally emphasised children as a
group of learners but children are also experiencers and players. Exploring frameworks of …

Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research-led, ethical architects in promoting
wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear …

This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places. Imagining and
designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary task, and in this …

This paper emphasises the attribute of Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) in school (re)
design by extending the research toward genuine participation and evaluation. It aims to re …

Young children in many parts of the world are spending more time in formal education and
care settings. As children have the right to be heard on matters that affect them, their views …

Research involving children, deemed to have difficulties with conventional means of
communication, can perpetuate reductive forms of representation of children's knowledges …

This paper reports on the findings from a study based in England, within a new school that
opened its doors to students in August 2015. The school, established under relatively recent …

This paper explores children's hostility towards adult researchers and shows how individual
acts of hostility might be linked to wider contexts in children's lives and to their relationships …

This paper reports on a participatory workshop with a group of rural youths exploring ways of
engaging them to capture their voices, examining whether design-based participatory …

This essential resource is designed to help busy early years practitioners to support the
mental health of young children through outdoor play. Promoting social and emotional …