Session 5: Children, Youth, and Environments: Resilience and Resourcefulness in a COVID World

This webinar features academics from across the Pacific Rim whose work addresses the setting and experiences of daily life for children and young people- home and neighbourhood, school, places for play and recreation, shared public space, the digital environment. Presenters will discuss the influences of public policy, urban design, environmental quality, social equity and inclusion on children’s development, health and wellbeing, agency and resilience, particularly in the context of COVID-19.

 

Date & Time

October 13th at 5 pm (PDT)/
October 14th at 8 am (HK time)

 

Hosts

Prof Linda Corkery & Prof Kate Bishop, University of New South Wales

 

Speakers

  • Patsy Owens
  • Angela Kreutz
  • Karen Witten
  • Susan Herrington
  • Mariana Brussoni
  • Julie Johnson
  • Bryoni Trezise
  • Victoria Derr
  • Fatemeh Aminpour

 

View the recording here.

Speakers
Dr Kate Bishop (Webinar Host)
Working Group Co-convenor and Webinar Host

Dr Kate Bishop is Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture in the School of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her background in environment-behaviour research reflects her abiding interest in the relationship between people and place and underpins her teaching and research and her particular area of interest: children, youth and environments. She specialises in the research and design of environments for children with special needs; child and youth friendly urban planning and design; and participatory methodologies with children and young people. Kate worked in private industry and government before becoming an academic.

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Prof Linda Corkery (Webinar Host)
Working Group Co-convenor and Webinar Production

Prof Linda Corkery is Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is a landscape architect and planner, having worked in private practice in the US, Hong Kong, and Australia prior to joining UNSW. Linda’s research addresses urban greenspace planning and design; landscape performance and sustainability; people-place and human-nature interactions. She is co-editor with Kate Bishop of Designing Cities with Children and Young People: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks (Routledge 2017) and has a chapter in the upcoming Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (2022).

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Prof Karen Witten
SHORE & Whariki Research Center, Massey University

Prof Karen Witten’s research investigates relationships between neighborhood characteristics and the mobility, health and wellbeing of residents. She is a geographer and a Professor of Public Health.

Presentation summary: The presentation draws on case studies to illustrate opportunities and impediments to children’s voices influencing business as usual urban public space decision-making.

Recommended readings:
Engaging Children in Public Space Design: Tips for Designers (https://kidinthecity.ac.nz/codesign)

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Penelope Carroll
SHORE & Whariki Research Center, Massey University

Penelope Carroll is a Public Health researcher investigating ableism/disablism, children’s rights, affordable housing and socially sustainable cities. She has a strong interest in social justice.

Presentation summary: The presentation draws on case studies to illustrate opportunities and impediments to children’s voices influencing business as usual urban public space decision-making.

Recommended readings:
Engaging Children in Public Space Design: Tips for Designers (https://kidinthecity.ac.nz/codesign)

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Prof Susan Herrington
The University of British Columbia

Prof Susan Herrington is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The University of British Columbia. She specializes in landscape architecture.

Presentation summary: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021) was one of the first landscape architects to work in northern Canada. She has designed with and for children since the 1950s.

Recommended readings:
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape (https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4295)
Seven Cs (https://www.outdoorplaycanada.ca/portfolio_page/seven-cs-an-informational-guide-to-young-childrens-outdoor-play-spaces/)

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Prof Julie M. Johnson
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Adjunct Associate Professor, Architecture Faculty, Urban Design Certificate Program, University of Washington, Seattle

Prof Julie Johnson teaches and researches civic landscapes as equitable and climate resilient through the lenses of food systems, children’s ecological play and learning, and healthy transportation.

Presentation summary: Mariana Brussoni and Julie Johnson will discuss overlapping and distinctive themes presented in opening presentations, highlighting emerging contexts for resilience.

Recommended readings:
Suarez-Lopez, Jose R., Maryann R. Cairns, Kam Sripada, Lesliam Quiros-Alcala, Howard W. Mielke, Brenda Eskenazi, Rutha A. Etzel, Katarzyna Kordas, on behalf of the International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment. 2021. “COVID-19 and children’s health in the United States: Consideration of physical and social environments during the pandemic.” Environmental Research 197 (2021) 11160. Elsevier, Inc. (20 April)

Kourti, A.; Stavridou, A.; Panagouli, E.; Psaltopoulou, T.; Tsolia,M.; Sergentanis, T.N.; Tsitsika, A. “Play Behaviors in Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Literature.” Children 2021, 8, 706. (17 August)

Pelletier, C.A.; Cornish, K.; Sanders, C. “Children’s Independent Mobility and Physical Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study with Families.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021, 18, 4481. (23 April)

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Claire Edwards
Chair, NSW Play Australia; Associate Producer, Esem Projects; Advocate, Placemaking X

Claire’s research and practice explores the understanding of ‘place’, the multiple factors affecting it and young people’s access to and provision within it. She, enthusiastically advocates for increasing the opportunities to play throughout our public realm.

Presentation summary: Mariana Brussoni and Claire Edwards will respond to ideas and issues raised in the previous session relating to young people in public spaces, Indigenous youth and place, mobility, health and wellbeing, climate change, highlighting emerging contexts for resilience.

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Bryoni Trezise
UNSW Sydney

Bryoni Trezise is a senior lecturer at UNSW Sydney. She has published two books and prize-winning articles on performance aesthetics, pedagogies and cultures. Her research examines how young people use digital media to express changing ideas about childhood.

Presentation summary: This presentation shares preliminary research findings into the hybrid digital play spaces and practices developed with children and young people by leading Australian Youth Arts Organisations during COVID19.

Recommended readings:
Lawson, Jim (2020) “Weathering the storm: Australian theatre for young audiences in the time of Coronavirus”, Artshub, 19 August. https://www.artshub.com.au/2020/08/19/weathering-the-storm-australian-theatre-for-young-audiences-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-260931/

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Angela Kreutz
Deakin University

Angela Kreutz conducts cross-cultural research within the field of children, youth and the environment, currently leading the third iteration of Growing Up In Cities.

Title: First Nation Australian young people and their connection to Country and place

Presentation summary: Aboriginal young people maintain connections to Country and place when they live on and with the land and water, forming strong connections that are inherent to Indigenous identity.

Recommended readings:
Nealie, M., (Ed.). (2021). First Knowledges: Building on Country. Thames & Hudson.

Kreutz, A. (2015). Children and the Environment in an Australian Aboriginal Community: A Psychological Approach. Routledge.

Heiss, A., (Ed.). (2018). Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. Black Inc.

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Mariana Brussoni
University of British Columbia

Mariana Brussoni researches child injury prevention and children’s risky play focusing on parent and caregiver perceptions of risk, and design of outdoor play-friendly environments.

Presentation summary: This presentation will respond to ideas and issues raised in the previous session relating to young people in public spaces, Indigenous youth and place, mobility, health and wellbeing and climate change.

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Prof Victoria Derr
California State University Monterey Bay

Prof Victoria Derr is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. Her work explores relationships between sustainable communities, place-based education, and social justice, particularly in historically excluded communities.

Presentation summary: Migration and transnationalism are increasing phenomena; understanding and fostering children’s transnational experiences in connection with the physical environment can benefit environmental policy and practice.

Recommended readings:
Yolanda Corona and Victoria Derr. (2021). Rising voices: Participatory and anticolonial frames for realizing young people’s rights. In V. Derr and Y. Corona (Eds.), Latin American Transnational Children and Youth: Experiences of Nature and Place, Culture and Care Across the Americas (pp. 137-147). Routledge Press.

Jose Tomás Ibarra et al. (2021). Listening to Elders: Birds and forests as intergenerational links for nurturing biocultural memory in the southern Andes. In V. Derr and Y. Corona (Eds.), Latin American Transnational Children and Youth: Experiences of Nature and Place, Culture and Care Across the Americas (pp. 161-175). Routledge Press.

Mariela Fernandez, Brandon Harris, and Katrina Black (2020). Engaging racially and Ethnically Diverse Youth as Stakeholders in Outdoor Public Environments. In J. Loebach, S. Little, Adina Cox, and P. Eubanks Owens. The Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People (80-97). Routledge Press.

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Prof Patsy Eubanks Owens
University of California, Davis

Patsy Owens is a professor of landscape architecture and environmental design. Her research focuses on the role of the physical environment in the wellbeing of youth.

Presentation summary: Reflections from adolescents on how the COVID pandemic has changed their opportunities for recreational and social activities as well as their strategies for adapting will be shared.

Recommended readings:
Crawford, A. 2020, November 30. There’s no room for teens in the pandemic city. Bloomberg CityLab. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-30/with-schools-shut-teens-seek-a-space-of-their-own

Owens, P. E. (2017). A Place for Adolescents: The power of research to inform the built environment. In Bishop, K. and Corkery, L., Eds. Designing cities with children and young people: Beyond playgrounds and skate parks. Routledge.

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Fatemeh Aminpour
UNSW Sydney

Fatemeh Aminpour is an Associate Lecturer at UNSW Built Environment. Her research and advocacy effort focuses mainly on children’s environments including schools and neighbourhood settings.

Presentation summary: The presentation challenges the way that Australian schools are accommodating children’s free play and discusses potential spatial opportunities to be enabled for children’s play benefits.

Recommended readings:
Aminpour, F., & Bishop, K. (2021). Children’s preferences on the move: Establishing the characteristics of unofficial paths and their benefits for children’s physical play in Australian primary school groundsJournal of Environmental Psychology, 75, 101599.

Aminpour, F. (2021). The physical characteristics of children’s preferred natural settings in Australian primary school groundsUrban Forestry & Urban Greening, 62, 127163.

Aminpour, F., Bishop, K., & Corkery, L. (2020). The hidden value of in-between spaces for children’s self-directed play within outdoor school environmentsLandscape and urban planning, 194, 103683.

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