ABSTRACT
Realising Participatory Design with Children and Young People: A Case Study of Design and Refurbishment In Schools Prof. Andrée Woodcock,1 Dr Peter Kraftl,2 Dr John Horton,3 Dr Peter Adey,4 Matthew Kinross,1 Michelle Newman1 and Dr Olga den Besten,3 (1Coventry University, 2University of Leicester, 3The University of Northampton, 4Keele University)
The UK government is currently engaged in a series of large school (re)building and refurbishment schemes. The best known of these – Building Schools for the Future (BSF) – will see the refurbishment of every secondary school in England by 2020. As in other school rebuilding programmes in the UK, the participation of stakeholders (and especially pupils) is positioned as a key part of the design process within this policy agenda.1 This project sought to explore the extent to which diverse pupils in different kinds of school (primary, secondary, special educational needs) were given opportunities to participate in school redesign.
