Re-Thinking children's empowerment: An exploration of the Zapatista educational model to promote resilience and empowerment through design
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Casanova Ochoa, Leonardo David
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Sammanfattning
This thesis is motivated by the hope of creating a
better future for the new generations. Therefore, it
aims to understand the children's perspectives and
encourage their empowerment.
To accomplish this, it explores three approaches
to understanding child development and a value
case for providing a human perspective that could
positively impact child development.
The first step is to understand what characteristics
are required to address children's development
and provide mechanisms to bring their perspective
into design propositions that meet their needs.
Therefore, this project combines psychological
(Cognitive development), spatial (Cognitive
experience), and pedagogical (Popular education)
approaches to create a framework that understands
their age necessities.
The second step is to incorporate a case study that
has placed people and the environment at the
center of its values. This move has the intention
to discover concepts that could provide human
values to design proposals. That is why this project
has decided to implement the Zapatista edational
model (from the southeast state of Chiapas,
Mexico). It represents an essential component
for understanding how community values can
help to construct a caring, empowering, holistic,
and sustainable environment where children can
thrive and create stronger bonds within their
communities.
The result is a matrix that combines the Zapatistas
values and the three approaches to create a
methodology to bring children's perspective into
the collaborative design process. The work aims
to turn the designers' position around children
and actively involve them in how we shape and
transform our society.
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Ämne/nyckelord
Education , Social changes , Empowerment , Critical awareness , Community