Places and spaces

Places and spaces

1. shape social interactions

2. enable practitioners to explore different standpoints

3. children!s spaces

   • make the first steps towards independence
   • learn to be creative and flexible
   • learn to negotiate risk, build self-esteem
   • develop basic life skills
   • domestication
     • relocation of children from external to internal protected spaces
   • insularisation
     • defined areas for children, detached from adult spaces
   • institutionalisation
     • greater imposition of boundaries and rules

4. public realm.

   • Children and young people are increasingly shut out of it
     • unhappy
     • unhealthy and frustrated
     • poor relationships with their family and peers,
     • feel unsafe
   • Facilities are poorly distributed
   • pressures on our built environment.
   • professional practices.
   • adult attitudes

5. Children’s geographies

   • spaces are experienced by different children and young people.
   • small adjustments, taking account of micro-geographies, can change children’s and young people’s experiences of spaces, services and practices.
   • Focault
     • social institutions are connected through the supervision and surveillance of certain humans by others
       • governmentality
     • offered a way of thinking about the power relations of contemporary societies
       • hierarchical, top-down power of the state
       • ways that social control is exerted through disciplinary institutions (schools, hospitals, psychiatric institutions, etc.).
       • relationship of power to knowledge
     • primary school dining rooms
       • Pike research
       • power and control are central to an analysis of childhood spaces.
       • how social control is exerted and resisted
       • practices which appear ‘normal’ and reasonable can be regarded differently

6. people, things, and ideas flow within and between spaces

7. Playground

   • where the social lives of children are played
   • where children’s culture, their games, their stories, their codes and their language are created.
   • its own set of social rules

8. can reproduce factors that contribute to the stratification of a society,

9. Children and young people are able to contest, reject and influence the choices and places created by adults

   • agency
     • the capacity of individuals or social groups to exercise choice and the ability to act independently

10. are related to the views that social groups hold about each other.

    • moral panic
      • hoodies
        • clothing had been constructed as a symbol of threat by the press, politicians and even the police

11. Designing and using spaces with children and young people

    • The Evelina Children’s Hospital