Use case · 2023 · Finland and Italy
From Playgrounds to Planning
Under the Architects’ Council of Europe’s research call, the platform was redesigned for children aged 6–14: a simplified bilingual children’s interface, physical prompt-card decks of roughly 170 cards, and projected voting. The method was tested with a school class of about 20 elementary pupils in Finland’s Häme region in September 2023 and at a Milan museum workshop the following month.
2 sessions, one engagement
- 01Harviala, Finland40 participants
- 02Milan, Italy →
Who took part
One class of roughly 20 elementary pupils with their teacher and 3 facilitators in Finland; children and parents at the Milan event.
What the tool did
Children photographed and redesigned their own schoolyard, worked with Stay/Learn/Play prompt-card decks, and voted on projected scenario galleries as a class.
What changed
A working children’s interface was delivered in Italian and English. The project’s own reflection: the civic-education value is real, but children’s ideas need transparent communication about what can and cannot be implemented.
We delivered this project under the brand name of UrbanistAI, in our previous collaboration.
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