It might become a more trusting city

Beatrice, 5 years old

Children protagonists of the city

A project by Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres - Istituzione of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia in collaboration with Reggio Children

Looking at the city through the eyes of its protagonists, both children and adults, means collectively updating its present and future social and cultural identity.

What kind of city are children talking about today?

A polymorphous city, with a wide variety of territories and landscapes, highly diverse public places where it is important to rediscover the value of solidarity and coexistence.

A porous city that makes flexibility a feature of hospitality, encounters, and relationships. 

Children, thanks to their intelligence and irony, know the streets and the inhabitants, and this familiarity generates openness and confidence, in a reciprocity of gazes. 

Children have the right to live in and know the city, to know where they are, to know how to find their way around, to know how to go where they want to go. They have the right to wander, to walk together, at their own pace, to attune their rhythm of knowing, in harmony with the urge to stop, observe, feel.

The city reinterpreted through the eyes of children seeks to acknowledge their point of view: a culture that belongs to childhood, finds visibility and presence in the city and can transform those places.

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