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Gatulabba is a Swedish Inheritance Fund project that started in the autumn of 2021. It is run by Växtvärket in Malmö, with the aim of increasing children’s freedom of movement and developing methods for including children in urban planning processes.
Gatulabba explores together with children and young people whether there are ways to involve them in a more meaningful and sustainable way in urban development; both in terms of the participants’ sense of meaningfulness and in terms of the ability of the involvement process to make an impact on urban development. The concept is about not only visualising the child-friendly streets of the future, but also prototyping them on a 1:1 scale, together with the children. Children and young people get to explore, ideate and build their own versions of child-friendly streets. The three processes carried out by Växtvärket have spanned six months with weekly meetings, giving children a genuine opportunity to understand the project and develop their own ideas. After the design and prototyping processes, we invite the public to experience the children’s visions during street parties.
Gatulabba’s method bank is the result of the completed design processes, combined with the knowledge Växtvärket has about working co-creatively with children and young people.
Växtvärket is a group of designers, landscape architects, garden engineers and educators, who work for a child-friendly and co-created urban development. We in Växtvärket usually call ourselves a collective of DOERS. We design and build shared outdoor environments, such as playgrounds, residential gardens, neighbourhood gardens and, as in the case of Gatulabba, temporary street installations. In addition, we activate green meeting places in the city and carry out valued activities in site development, construction play, urban farming and outdoor education.
We work with site development in its entirety, from idea and concept development and consultation to design, implementation and activation. Our goal is to create environments that promote meetings, play and activity while creating ecological added value.
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