Chrisitne Yuihwa, Lee
Co-Founder of Beyond PlayMaking
Taiwan, New Taipei City
Christine Yuihwa Lee is an advocate for UNCRC31 and UNCRC12+UNCRC13 for 10 years. With her MEd in Bristol Uni and experiences in 300 cities she visited worldwide, she’s been the main representative role doing exchanges with international cohorts for Taiwan and the aid role working for local practical projects in Taiwan. Currently a co-founder of Beyond PlayMaking together with her ‘children’s right to play’ allies, she’s very much interested in ‘for/with/by children’ methodologies, methods using children’s perspectives and child-friendly approaches, which can be found in her publications in Eyes on place, Opinion CW, OpinionUDN, FutureCity, Artco Kids, and in her chapters and books: City at Eye Level for Kids, City Commoning, Power of Play: Parks & Playgrounds for Children by Children, and 45 Urban Ideas for Ukraine — and every other city in the world. Her ignite talk ‘A Children’s Future Museum for/with/by Children’ will focus on how we might start a children’s future museum based on the Lundy model of child participation and her proposal of integrating Lundy with the Taiwan local ‘play leader participant-observation-oriented participatory design and the PARS model of playwork practice.
A Children’s Future Museum for/with/by Children
A children’s future museum needs to use a child friendly approach from a children’s perspective together with a for/with/by children method, and the presenter would like to propose that we might start one based on the Lundy model of child participation and her proposal of integrating Lundy with the Taiwan local ‘play leader participant-observation-oriented participatory design and with the PARS model of playwork practice. The Lundy model of child participation was developed by Professor Laura Lundy of the School of Education at the Queen's University of Belfast. Her model provides a conceptual framework of children’s right to participation for decision makers to take as a reference in accordance with Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Lundy model of child participation, four elements were raised in a rational chronical order: space, voice, audience and influence; yet, to make it go beyond a conceptual framework for a children’s future museum to work in practices, the Taiwan local ‘play leader participant-observation-oriented participatory design by Eyes on Place (and coworkingly by Beyond PlayMaking) and the PARS model of playwork practice by Dr. Shelly Newstead (and coworkingly by Dr. Peter King) need to be introduced for decision makers as well. The Taiwan local ‘play leader participant-observation-oriented participatory design has assisted a great number of municipals to build child-centred and child friendly play spaces, which has been an evidence-based method to be further coined with the PARS model of playwork practice because UNCRC and child-centredness haven’t been the mainstream and focal point in the museum settings. The PARS model of playwork practice is a holistic model to describe, define and enable adult professional working in any setting where children spend their leisure time to articulate, develop and evaluate their playwork practice; hence the ‘childism’ techniques can be a helpful toolkit for the decision makers and the museum workers. All in all, the mentioned can be regarded as an innovative implementation from the scratch of a museum architecture to the exhibition design or even to the museum management for a long run in museum-relevant milieus.
Lundy Model of Child Participation, PARS model, Play Leader Participant-Observation-Oriented Participatory Design, for/with/by Children