“The way that you worked with our young students was just amazing. It has been such a valuable experience of learning for them, and all of us really. I would like to present your work as a State Showcase for how to engage with children, so all schools can learn from that.”
Client, School Principal
Co-design a school with young children, using play
This co-design, and research project with 160 young school children and their community created the blueprint for a new school.
The problem
Children are usually excluded from designing their environments - this project challenged that and brought them to the (design) table. But how to work with pre-literate participants? I developed a co-design game to include even the youngest children.
The project
Ethnographic research in community on how children learn
Design a co-design game that could be used for pre-literate participants
Co-design with 160 children and their community (parents, teachers)
My role
I led the project from A-Z, engaging a junior research partner
Deliverables
Co-Design game
Co-Design process with students, families and teachers
Insights report for the project and school leaders