Children Co-Design Cities of the Anthropocene

We walk, listen, and make cities together—with children, not for them.

Children Co-Design Cities of the Anthropocene (CCCA) was a collaborative research initiative based at the London Bridge After School Program in Dorchester, Ontario. Rooted in reconceptualist childhood studies and public pedagogies, the project recognized children as relational subjectivities, already entangled with the multispecies and infrastructural complexities of urban life. Through shared walks, sonic engagements, and speculative storytelling, we traced how children’s material-discursive encounters with place generate ways of knowing that trouble conventional approaches to city-making. This site now offers traces of that research—reflections, documentation, and provocations—an invitation to stay with the pedagogical and ecological questions that emerged through these shared inquiries.