Kids and the City Workshop

The goal of this workshop series is to increase children’s attention to and awareness of topics connected to life in the city. During the workshops, children enter an empty city through a story and gradually build it using semi-prepared materials, guided by their needs and interests.

Each session focuses on one urban topic, and through the process of building the city, children become familiar with their urban rights and responsibilities through child-centered methods.

These workshops improve children’s hands-on skills and ability to make things, give them the experience of following a project through several sessions, help them practice teamwork, and increase their self-confidence.

Workshop topics

• Learning about public transportation in the city, how to use it, the ethics of using it, different kinds of streets and urban passages, and a number of transportation rules related to children
• Getting to know buildings, their functions, their parts, and the ethics of being neighbors
• Learning about urban green space, the benefits of trees in the city, the plane tree as a native tree of Tehran, and the ethics of living alongside urban animals
• Getting to know urban furniture and how to use it responsibly

This workshop was commissioned by the Social Deputy of District 7 of Tehran Municipality and carried out in cooperation with the Insan Shahr Institute in the district’s toy houses over an eight-month period.