Kids Guide to Nottingham
Kids’ Guide to Nottingham aims to provide children in Nottingham with a “cultural survival guide” containing fun facts, things to do and activities introducing them to the city.
By organising different workshops in three Nottingham primary schools, we explored the means of collecting precious data all about how to see a city through the eyes of a child. Design and art techniques helped us to talk about this complex issue. Group mapping, individual mapping and collaging, as well as experimental curating lead our discussions. Using these methodologies, we encouraged Nottingham’s children to help us to design our “survival guide” by telling us the types of things they are interested in, as well as the types of things that they value. The children told us all about their favourite places in Nottingham, created posters about their lives and personalities, and talked about items which they find important.
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Find out more about the workshops, our methods and outcomes on the project website - https://kidsguidetonotts.wixsite.com/home
There are many similarities between the results from each of the three workshops, despite the brief and participants being different for each activity. The backgrounds of all of the children that we have worked with may all differ from each-other, however, there seems to be common ground in the things they like to do, and the things they find important. It is clear that the children are most interested in certain themes which recur across all of the workshops. These are memories, friends and family, home, being happy, but most of all having fun.
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We examined all of the responses from workshops to put together a leaflet and website inspired by the children. There is information available about fun things to see and do, as well as British traditions and holidays.
Or check out our project booklet for more information about our methodologies, activities at each workshop and analysis on the results.