Children are Dangerous: Listening to Plan Happier Cities

CTRL + Z Arquitectura, Essay, expanding design practices, Les Archi Minots, Low Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Architect’s role, Bottom-up approach, Children, Children games, Collaborative work, Collective city, Collective identity, Cultural agitator, Diversity, Education, Empowering society, Essay, France, Future generations, Global imagination, Green, Knowledge, Lyon, New perspectives, Participation, Public realm, Seville, Spain, Urban Paradigms

An 8-meter black and white canvas with a direct message “Children are dangerous” was hung at the top of the stairs along the square in front of the main entrance to the I Lyon Architecture Biennale.
This provocative message was intended to create a debate about the role children play in the creation of the cities we live in and their relation with the powers that decide on city design understood in terms of spaces, but also how the city can be used and by whom.