Visão geral
Niñas a la Escuela (Raparigas à Escola) é uma iniciativa que visa tornar mais visíveis os pontos de vista das raparigas em projectos de design urbano relacionados com a mobilidade e os espaços públicos. A abordagem centra-se na aprendizagem das experiências das raparigas no seu trajeto diário para a escola e nos seus percursos a pé pelo bairro, que são registados num caderno pessoal. O caderno é uma mistura entre um diário de vida e um livro de actividades e é utilizado como parte de uma atividade escolar que decorre durante três semanas. Mais de 200 raparigas de uma escola primária pública no Concelho de Renca, Santiago, participaram na atividade, partilhando as suas diferentes perspectivas sobre o seu ambiente urbano. A sua visão colectiva destacou preocupações como o lixo, as áreas negligenciadas e os comportamentos inadequados nos espaços públicos, ao mesmo tempo que sublinhou o valor da natureza e dos locais divertidos onde as crianças podem brincar em segurança. As opiniões das raparigas oferecem novas possibilidades e tópicos que desafiam as formas tradicionais como os adultos constroem os espaços públicos.
Location:
Santiago, Chile
Organisation:
La Reconquista Peatonal (The Pedestrian Reconquest)
Partner organisations:
Municipality of Renca
Beneficiary:
Girls between 6 and 11 years old
Scale of proximity:
Neighbourhood
Built environment component:
Streets, Routes to school
Ideias de design
Spatial/physical:
The project found that the girls’ view of their urban environment was often fragmented. They tended to focus their attention on particular things; flowers, dogs and cats that are in their way, remarkable houses and buildings. With these pieces of the city and their personal imaginations, they create a world that opens endless possibilities of urban interventions that adults sometimes leave out.
Material:
Girls’ experiences are collected through a personal paper notebook divided into different sections. Firstly, they are asked to put general information and to draw themselves on their way to school. Secondly, they have to draw and describe the route. Finally, they have to reflect on and assess their neighbourhoods.
Process:
The project is implemented through three classroom session of one hour each, in which students (6-7 and 10-11 years old) fill the notebook in their different sections. The process is implemented across different weeks to give time to the girls to look closely to their neighbourhoods and re-fill the notebooks with different perceptions.
Location:
The walks are conducted on the girl’s daily walking routes to school and through their neighbourhoods.
Informações sobre a aplicação
Working with children requires much more time than what we usually expect and should consider unexpected events.
Girls are not mere informants, every activity they do is also an opportunity for learning new things and empowering them in citizenship.
To better record experiences, it would be useful to audio or video record. This would providea more complete vision and detail of the conversations that happened in the classroom activity.
Lastly,asking the consent of the gilrs to participate and use their data, along with their tutor’s authorisation was fundamental, as it always is when working with children.
Links:
http://escalacomun.cl/2020/06/15/la-ciudad-desde-la-mirada-de-las-ninas/