Project Details:

Our current concern is related to needing environments that children and caregivers feel equipped to engage with regarding physical activity and free play. Eg. public spaces often lack 'child friendly' engagement opportunities .

The students will explore how we can integrate results from the 'child voice' tool that is possibly being created by another team of students to facilitate improvements in three areas:

• a bus stop,
• a public park,
• and a waiting room.

The students will create a proposal (possibly even a prototype) for solutions to integrating child voice in the waiting room, bus stop, and public park.

Deliverables can be :

• PROTOTYPES (mock-ups, designs, tests, visualizations, beta-versions)
• ENGAGEMENT (Specific tests for permanence and scale)
• DESIGN (2nd stage experiments, models, events, diagrams)

Background:

This project relates to the City of London Strategic Plan:

Focus Area: Strengthening our Community

Expected Outcomes: In this focus area, Londoners are engaged and have a sense of belonging in their neighbourhoods and their community.

Expected Results: Increase the number of meaningful opportunities for residents to be connected in their neighbourhood and community

Strategy: Implement programs and services that respond to neighbourhood recreation needs.