What If Teens Designed Cities” is a great article show how important and successful youth are in building communities. I loved the process of analyzing, researching, visualizing, experiencing, and communicating their ideas of their community.
“Rather than take their “input” and make a "professional" plan FOR them, my role was to facilitate their own personal and collective visualization…to help them generate their own uniquely contextualized urban plan, from within themselves, working as a creative team.”
That is the formula to get youth involved and motivated. Do not make a plan for them rather guide them with your own experience and resources to help make their ideas a reality. It’s been said many times before, what good is a list of ideas without any action to accomplish them? What do youth get out of that list after they give it to someone? It’s not just the final outcome that is important but the process and knowledge needed to make ideas a reality.
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