| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-24T14:14:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-24T14:14:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/51431 | |
| dc.subject | Participatory design/art | sv |
| dc.subject | children | sv |
| dc.subject | urban slow paths | sv |
| dc.subject | public space | sv |
| dc.subject | dialogue | sv |
| dc.subject | interventions | sv |
| dc.title | Gangmakers & Koplopers | sv |
| dc.type.svep | artistic work | |
| dc.contributor.creator | Vaneycken, Annelies | |
| art.typeOfWork | A participatory design project, consisting of a series of workshops that generated artefacts, group discussions, dialogues with policy makers and a parade by various child group in different neighbourhoods of the city of Ghent, BE. | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Series of workshops (Optochtbouwers, Dialogue Shapers, Kunstenfabriek, Kunstenspeelplaats, Trage wegen stapstenen) organised by the three partners (Trage wegen, zZmogh and Office for Public Play), Ghent BE, May-October 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Exhibition: Dialogue Shapers, Pastory, Ghent BE, 7 July 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Exhibition: Kunstfabriek 1, DOK Gent, Ghent BE, 8 July 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Exhibition: Kunstfabriek 2, DOK Gent, Ghent BE, 15 July 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Exhibition: Kunstfabriek 3, DOK Gent, Ghent BE, 26 August 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Exhibition: Child parade, Ghent BE, 16 October 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Presentation on conference: Child in the City Conference, Ghent BE, 7-9 November 2016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Publication (poster 2): Office for Public Play (2015). Archive for Public Play. Excerpt 20161016 | sv |
| art.relation.publishedIn | Blog post: Gangmakers & Koplopers, Child in the City website (http://www.childinthecity.eu), ongoing | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | Gangmakers & Koplopers, workshops (1)
A series of workshops (Optochtbouwers, Dialogue Shapers, Kunstenfabriek, Kunstenspeelplaats, Trage wegen stapstenen) organised by the three partners: Trage wegen, zZmogh and Office for Public Play. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | — Trage Wegen organised a series of urban walks wherein children, together with invited artists, explored their local slow paths. The children expressed their experiences through various sounds recording; movement and wool weaving; and 2D stop motion movie making. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | — Kunstenfabriek: zZmogh used walking and art making to trigger children’s ‘free’ expression on slow paths matters. zZmogh’s workshops were coordinated by artists trained in different art disciplines. They supported the children’s ideas into art works by offering techniques and inspiration from art history and contemporary art. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | — Kunstenspeelplaats: zZmogh also set up a series of explorations in children’s own streets (which were temporary car-free as part of the ‘play street’ program of the city of Ghent). The children expressed their ideas through building with a big-sized wooden meccano. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | — Dialogue Shapers: Office for Public Play worked with participatory design and the concept of ‘play’ to help children develop critical awareness about their rights, position and situation and to support exchange with related actors such as their parents and local policy makers. Furthermore, the children were invited to hack the predefined workshop structures into a co-designed workshop structure. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | — Optochtbouwers: Trage Wegen invited artist and choreographer Liesbeth Swings to develop the child parade (Optocht) together with a fixed group of children on a regular base. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | Optocht, walking do-exhibition (2)
The Gangmakers & Koplopers / Pace-setters & Front-runners pilot year was completed with a parade celebrating children’s relations and ideas on slow paths. Through the ‘Optochtbouwers’ participatory design process, the children co-designed a score for an ‘actions-tour’. The audience was invited to interact with the slow paths by performing the score during the actions-tour. By doing so the audience (adults and children) did not only create the final shape of the parade but also experienced a multitude of meanings, experiences and ideas about how the children themselves experience slow paths in their urban daily life.
Movie: https://player.vimeo.com/video/188814055 | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | Children… Blazing a Trail for Public Space. Children's participation in the production of urban pathways, presentation on conference (3)
This lecture reflected on the process and shifts that occurred druing the first pilot year and concluded by presenting the vision and strategy for how to continue the project over the next three years.
The lecture was part of the Child in the City Conference at KASK in Ghent BE. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | Archive for Public Play. Excerpt 20161016, poster (4)
Ten rights for a child friendly city and a list of other quotes, generated by the children during the Dialogue Shapers workshop series, were collected an published in a poster. The poster was distributed to the children and the big public about three months after the workshop series took place during the child parade, another activity within the Gangmakers & Koplopers / Pace-setters & Front-runners project. | sv |
| art.description.workIncluded | Gangmakers & Koplopers / Pace-setters & Front-runners, website (5)
http://www.gangmakersenkoplopers.be | sv |
| art.description.project | Trage Wegen (translation for ‘slow paths’) is a non-profit organisation based in Ghent. Their mission is to support the existence, maintenance and development of slow paths in Flanders. Such urban paths, trails, alleyways and back roads, supporting and prescribing slow types of mobility are not only enjoyable places to be but they also have a special appeal for the city’s youngest citizens. They are unintended or inaccessible for car users and therefore constitute an essential public network for a qualitative, autonomous and safe being of children. In addition, they extend the amount of conventional child friendly spaces in the city that are most often restricted to segregated play zones, such as playgrounds. Trage Wegen initiated a project that focused on children’s participation in the development of a network of slow paths in the city of Ghent and, therefore, approached two other organisations that had previous experience and knowledge in working with children or children’s participation: zZmogh and Office for Public Play.
Together the three partners defined a concept, structure and methodological approach for the project, called Gangmakers & Koplopers — translated as Pace-setters and Front-runners — set-up in various neighbourhoods in Ghent. It enabled children, aged 6 to 12, to explore possible meanings of these urban pathways in relation to their daily experience, access and appropriation of their city neighbourhood. In addition to inquire children’s meanings, values and visions of their urban slow paths; the project also aimed to learn from children’s experiences in this context in order to develop participatory methods which are more appropriate for working with children. The project consisted out of a series of workshops that would 1) generate children’s experiences and voices on exploring/experiencing/rethinking slow paths; 2) enable dialogue with policy makers (through a wish list or dream box); and 3) communicate the outcomes to the wider audience (through a public child parade and online platform). This one-year pilot project was funded as ‘experimental project’ by the Flemish Government. All children volunteered in their free time. External observers were enrolled to ‘register’ the children’s experiences. This generated a rich collection of plural data layers and thick descriptions. This qualitative data was registered through different media: audio, photo, video, written notes and artefacts made by the children. The data analyse helped to reconfigure the aim, questions and methodology of the first pilot year into a fine-tuned framework for the three forthcoming years.
At the end of the project, we discerned two major shifts from the predefined structure of the project: Both the ‘wish list for the municipality’ and the ‘parade for the big public’ had evolved from a goal-oriented outcome to process-oriented interaction. During the process, it became clear that delivering a wish list for the municipality would limit and devalue the complexity and diversity of the children’s input. In addition, the idea of delivering a wish list that would actually become a ‘to do’ list for the municipality would put all hope and responsibility to an external actor and therefore the children would lose control for making actual change. Furthermore, we realized that in case we would involve the municipality for future collaboration, they would need to develop understanding about the children’s experiences. Therefore the idea of the wish list was transformed into an actual and real dialogue that engaged both parties. After being informed about their rights, the children re-explored slow paths and public space in order to develop their critical awareness. Finally a playful set-up was used to make the children feel comfortable expressing and discussing their questions, doubts, needs, wishes, dreams, etc. with the two local policy makers. The initial plans for the parade went through a similar change. Originally this procession-style walk, celebrating slow paths, would show artefacts produced during various workshops to the public. In stead, an additional participatory design process was initiated to develop the parade together with a fixed group of children on a regular base. With the support of artist and choreographer Liesbeth Swings, the children co-designed a score. During the actions-tour, the audience was invited to interact with the slow paths by performing the score. By doing so the audience (adults and children) did not only create the final shape of the parade but also experienced a multitude of meanings, experiences and ideas about how the children themselves experience slow paths in their urban daily life.
Both new developments show how our method dissociated from predefined outcomes into a process based on interaction, exchange and continuation. The role of the children changed from presenting their wishes and needs to a pro-active role in which they would engage externals in co-experiencing, sharing and negotiating their experiences. This position actively involved the children in the discourse of slow paths and public space.
1 Slow paths is the collective name for formal and informal planned paths that are used for slow types of mobility by pedestrians and bikers, such as walking, leisure, and functional movements. | sv |
| art.description.summary | Gangmakers & Koplopers is a participatory design project focusing on children’s participation in the development of a network of slow paths in the city of Ghent. The workshops series enabled children, aged 6 to 12, to explore possible meanings of these urban pathways in relation to their daily experience, access and appropriation of their city neighbourhood. | sv |
| art.description.supportedBy | TRADERS
Office for Public Play
Trage Wegen
zZMOGH
Flemish Government’s department of Culture, Youth, Sports and Media (department of youth)
Pastory
VZW Jong | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://tr-aders.eu/dialogue-shapers/ | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://officeforpublicplay.org/department/archive-for-public-play-extract-2 | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://officeforpublicplay.org/department/pace-setters-front-runners | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://officeforpublicplay.org/department/child-parade-pace-setters-front-runners | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://officeforpublicplay.org/department/dialogue-shapers | sv |
| art.relation.uri | http://www.childinthecity.eu/2016/06/15/gangmakers-koplopers-children-exploring-experiencing-and-imagining-urban-pathways/ | sv |
| art.relation.uri | www.gangmakersenkoplopers.be | sv |
