After successful completion of the course, students are able to discuss aspects of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child relevant to spatial planning using concrete examples of application. They have a differentiated understanding of children's agendas in the context of the city and can describe emancipatory developments around a child's right to the city using historical and contemporary examples.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted in 1989. It lays down far-reaching rights of protection, care and participation for people under the age of 18, to name a few: the right to education, the right to leisure, recreation and play, the right to freedom from discrimination and the right to health. Since 2011, some children's rights have even been part of the Austrian Constitution, including "the right to appropriate participation and consideration of his or her opinion in all matters concerning the child, in a manner appropriate to his or her age and development" (Federal Constitutional Act on the Rights of Children, Article 4). Nevertheless, children's rights have not yet arrived in the everyday lives of many children and young people.
For more than 100 years, reform thinkers from various disciplines, together with children's and youth movements, have been advocating that children be taken seriously as actors. In this seminar we will discuss what this can mean in concrete terms for the city as a common living space for small and large, young and old people.
- from a theoretical perspective,
- at concrete places in the city,
- using the example of various policies and initiatives, such as the Child Friendly City Initiative, in which UNICEF supports municipalities in implementing children's rights in urban planning, administration and design.
Lectures, excursions, exercises, discussions, presentations, games
The course will take place partly at different locations in the city and not in the analogue or digital seminar room. Of course, what the pandemic situation allows is decisive.
The LVA is part of the
- Wahlmodul 5: Gesellschaft, Alltag und Raum
- Wahlmodul 1: Global Development of Cities and Regions
as well as a supplementary subject of the inter-faculty
- Modul "Bildungslandschaften in Bewegung"
