Conference paper
Radical imaginaries and new places for children in cities
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference for New Cities, pp.1-16
60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress Diamond Anniversary / 1st International Conference for New Cities (New Clark City, Phillipines, 10-Sep-2024–13-Sep-2024)
International Society of City and Regional Planners
2024
Abstract
Top-down urban visions, design competitions and manifestos have a long tradition of urban planning and design, unlocking desired discourse on imaginary urban futures such as regenerative cities. At the same time, we are living in a state of meta-crisis threatening the state of health at a planetary scale. As urbanisation continues to increase, cities could be part of the transformation process to enable regeneration and a return to planetary health. However, as cities are nested within complexities associated with cultural practices, policies, and making-processes, often such vision can lead to unintended outcomes and leave vulnerable population groups behind. In many cases, children, which are our future, are often overlooked. In this paper, we seek to speculate about a different way of imagining healthy cities by first introducing a speculative non-linear theoretical framework as our vision for cities, second applying the framework to three different international case studies to harness the transformational power of being in the city for children and engaging in everyday life observations related to children. In a sense, this is a radical departure from traditional visioning as we centre the visioning around ontological cuts from the existing conditions. Third, we conclude with a set of research questions as a targeted provocation to overcome the meta-crisis that seems so deeply caused by the human condition.
Details
- Title
- Radical imaginaries and new places for children in cities
- Authors
- Greg Mews (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities LabAntonio Lara-Hernandez (Author) - Auckland University of TechnologyMarcelo Sbarra (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Academic Support Unit
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 1st International Conference for New Cities, pp.1-16
- Conference details
- 60th ISOCARP World Planning Congress Diamond Anniversary / 1st International Conference for New Cities (New Clark City, Phillipines, 10-Sep-2024–13-Sep-2024)
- Publisher
- International Society of City and Regional Planners
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.47472/SRhtjqGU
- Organisation Unit
- Bioclimatic and Sociotechnical Cities Lab; School of Law and Society; Academic Support Unit
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991066298802621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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