Learn from other perspectives. Children in Participatory Planning of the Territory

Abstract

Children participation is developed through freedom of thinking and being, the choice, the desire to produce change and shared knowled-ge. This happens during the participatory plan-ning workshops, that are educational proces-ses involving children in construction and rea-daptation works of places they frequented. The search refer of a participation experience in Umbria, relatively to which the degree of chil-dren involvement and their perceptions were verified. Have been used four detection means, and an international Ladder of children participation which classifies the degree of in-volvement of children.