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Gizem Kıygı (Author, Publication and Project Design), Tolgahan Akbulut (Graphic Design and Illustrations), Gülzade Şentürk (Graphic Design and Illustrations)

City Detective Initiative

https://medium.com/sehir-dedektifi

İstanbul, Turkey
Şehir Dedektifi (City Detective) is an urbanism initiative that focuses on children’s rights to space. It gets inspiration from the creativity of children and plays with the principles of participatory design. We produce design tools for active participation, develop right-based analyses and policies for child-friendly cities.

Call for ideas 2021

Child-friendly City Maps


Mapping the City with and for Children

Child-friendly City Maps


Mapping the City with and for Children
A spatial dialogue project between children and the city that enables participation and interaction.
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Childhood is a very unique period of lifetime in which our relationship with the environment is determined. The urban space includes many hidden potentials for children. On the other, inequalities, spatial injustice keep children apart from the city and from each other. Child-friendly City Maps project offers a spatial dialogue tool for children to participate in the city. After choosing a specific side, there are three main steps to produce each map:

*Participatory workshops with children: We organize walking, mapping and modeling workshops with local children to understand their usage and perception of the district/neighborhood.
*Designing the publication: We design a published map for children that highlights districts potentials and children's usage including sensory games, city lexicon and stickers.
*Walks with the publication: We walk again with the guidance of the published map. It enables different childhoods to discover others’ perception of the same district.

City exploring workshop with the children in the neighborhood’s community center.

Finding the old mobile swing during the neighborhood walk.

İstanbul, Beyoğlu Map for Kids.

Children exploring the map in the kindergarten.

İstanbul, Historical Peninsula Map for Kids walking event with children's books authors.

Child-friendly City Maps


Mapping the City with and for Children

Child-friendly City Maps


Mapping the City with and for Children
A spatial dialogue project between children and the city that enables participation and interaction.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Childhood is a very unique period of lifetime in which our relationship with the environment is determined. The urban space includes many hidden potentials for children. On the other, inequalities, spatial injustice keep children apart from the city and from each other. Child-friendly City Maps project offers a spatial dialogue tool for children to participate in the city. After choosing a specific side, there are three main steps to produce each map:

*Participatory workshops with children: We organize walking, mapping and modeling workshops with local children to understand their usage and perception of the district/neighborhood.
*Designing the publication: We design a published map for children that highlights districts potentials and children's usage including sensory games, city lexicon and stickers.
*Walks with the publication: We walk again with the guidance of the published map. It enables different childhoods to discover others’ perception of the same district.

City exploring workshop with the children in the neighborhood’s community center.

Finding the old mobile swing during the neighborhood walk.

İstanbul, Beyoğlu Map for Kids.

Children exploring the map in the kindergarten.

İstanbul, Historical Peninsula Map for Kids walking event with children's books authors.

Idea by

Gizem Kıygı (Author, Publication and Project Design), Tolgahan Akbulut (Graphic Design and Illustrations), Gülzade Şentürk (Graphic Design and Illustrations)
City Detective Initiative
İstanbul
Turkey
Şehir Dedektifi (City Detective) is an urbanism initiative that focuses on children’s rights to space. It gets inspiration from the creativity of children and plays with the principles of participatory design. We produce design tools for active participation, develop right-based analyses and policies for child-friendly cities.
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