Nick van Apeldoorn MSc
3th of October 2019, Civitas, Graz, Austria
Metamorphosis: How children
change cities
2018: 7,6 Bn
2050: 9,8 Bn
2018: 55%
2050: 68%
More kids grow up between cars.
UN, 2017 UN, 2018
Develop and implement bottom-up measures with children to achieve
lasting behavioural change to create child-friendlier
neighbourhoods
Southampton
Tilburg
Zurich
Munich
Meran Graz
Alba Iulia
Interventions in public space Temporary
street closures
Educational and
innovative tools
Empowerment of active mobility
Crystallisation points
Planning
procedures and integration in SUMP
Plan with
children
Built with
children
Build coalitions
around children
Change the city with the perspective of
children
Car-reduced
living
Key
task
1. Tested soft measures, 322, 77% +/++
2. Working together with children ++
3. New tools for M&E
4. Enlighten the kids perspective
5. Change the mindset of cities.
Website: www.metamorphosis-project.eu
YouTube: Childfriendly cities - METAMORPHOSIS LinkedIn: EU Metamorphosis project
Facebook: EU Metamorphosis project Instagram: eumetamorphosisproject
“The project leading to this application has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723375”.
TUD: The results of Metamorphosis SOTON: Temporary Street Closures &
Interventions in Public Space, Crystalisation points
BUas: 20 good reasons for neighbourhood transformations
01-12-2019 11-12-2019
January 2020 Webinars:
Socials:
Sources:
Getting to know Metamorphosis
• Metamorphosis philosophy
• What is a child friendly city?
• International contexts
• Coffee break
• Objectives
• Approach
• Implementations
• Analysis and evaluation
• Scale up
Workshop
• Lunch
• Challenge scope
• Location selection
• Solution finding
• Solution selection
• What can you do
• Pitch
• Feedback
• Drinks
Sources:
• Chawla, L. (2002) Growing up in an urbanising world (London, Earthscan). Children’s Environments, 12(4), 403–413.
• Edelman, R. (2016, April, 4th). Dirt is good: the campaign for play. https://www.edelman.co.uk/insights/dirt-good-campaign-
• playMalone, K. (2017). Child Friendly Cities. Designing Cities with
Children and Young People: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks, 11.
• UNICEF. (2012). The state of the world's children 2012: children in an urban world. eSocialSciences.
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (1955).
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.
Published by the department of Drugs and Crime of the United Nations. New York.
• United Nations. (2017). World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100. Published by the
department of world population prospects from the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 21 June 2017. New York.
• United Nations. (2018). 68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN. Published by the department of world population prospects from the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 16 may 2018. New York.
Presentation contents: Nick van Apeldoorn (BUas, Breda University of Applied Sciences, NL)
graphics used in this presentation (slide 4,5,6,7,10,11)
© N. van Apeldoorn (BUas, Breda University of Applied Sciences, NL), 2019. Graphics slide 11 are partly open source from Flaticon.
Video’s and picture 11&12 used in this presentation are copyright free from: Pexels. Other pictures © Metamorphosis.
All logo’s used in this presentation are from European organisations in which Metamorphosis participates Questions/remarks: apeldoorn.n@buas.nl
“The project leading to this application has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 723375”.
