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La recherche par le projet d'aménagement : comprendre le vélo chez les enfants à travers les projets "Grandir en ville" de Montréal et de Guadalajara /
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Michel, Th José, Juan |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | This research in the field of design aims at understanding the role of bicycling in the chuld-environment relationship through the participation of chiidren in their neighbourhood’s participatoiy design project. It is based on the conception of participatory design as a research setting where children, as actors, can both make explicit and transform the way they understand their environment. The research took place in the context of two participatory design projects, one in Montreal (Canada) and the other in Guadalajara (Mexico), both conducted in 2005 as part of UNESCO’s international action-research program Growing Up in Cities. Chiidren between the ages of 8 and 16 (20 in Montreal, 27 in Guadalajara) as well as students ftom local universities (16 in Montréal, 19 in Guadalajara) contributed to the collection of data and participated in the conception of urban design projects for the children’s neighbourhoods. The qualitative analysis based on the information produced during these two participatory design projects involved three complementary levels of reflection. The first one concems the sub-project and looks specifically at the child-environment relationship. At this level, bicycling was understood as an expression of the child-environment relationship within a mode! that integrates four space-perception categories: 1) home as shelter, 2) the neighbourhood as a threatening place, 3) home as a place of precariousness and 4) the neighbourhood as place of interest. The second level concems the project itself and refers to the relationship between the designer and the object that is designed. At this level, the participatory design project was conceptualized as a learning process and the children’s participation as a way to understand their lived environment. Finally, the third level concems the meta-project and refers to the actors’ understanding of their own involvement within the participatory design project. At this level, participatoiy design was understood as an ethical awakening, characterized by the adoption of a non deterministic environmental and anthropological approach. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/18089/Torres_Michel_Juan_Jose_2007_these.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
