ABSTRACT
The impact of visual culture on the current generation of children has implications for their future and the futures of us all, as all children are consumers of design and some may even become designers themselves. Children occupy and respond to designed spaces, but are rarely involved in decision making about the visual and material environment that surrounds them. A child living in an urban environment experiences pedestrian movement and has the opportunity to explore their surroundings on a regular basis, thus establishing a visceral connection to the built environment. There is an honourable history of educationalists and architects collaborating in the redesign of school buildings to realise advances in pedagogy through the material and visual environment. The cluster has explored how the view of the child and child-like perspectives have been applied in the past by architects together with educators and how these are consistent with what children and young people say their need are today.
