1. Growing-Up Local
Youth, Young People, and the Production of
the 'Local' in Hackney
Zed Nelson - Photographs from A Tale of Two Cities.
http://www.zednelson.com/
2. Outline
•Defining Youth & Young people
•Research Proposal
•Youth/Education Data
•Educational Structure in
•Hackney
•Maps (schools/nurseries/gangs)
•Methodology
•Research Questions
3. Youth
"The qualities of
vigour, freshness, or
immaturity as
associated with
being young."
- OED
Young People
0 - 19 years old
Zed Nelson - Photographs from A Tale of Two Cities. http://www.
zednelson.com/
4. Data on Young People & Education
Child Benefit Families, 2010
Hackney Central Hackney London
Total Number of 2530 60380 1831965
Children
Total Number of 1480 31240 1028265
Families Claiming /1959 = 75% /38192 = 81% /1602052 = 64%
Benefit
Source
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Last Updated
13 April 2011
5. School Absence
(Sept 10 - Aug 11) Hackney London
Source
Enrolments in All 25,300 891,687 Department for Education
Schools Last Updated
21 June 2012
Overall % rate of 5.5% 5.5%
absences (pupil half
days)
Authorized 4.4% 4.3%
Absences (pupil half
days)
Unauthorized 1.2% 1.2%
Absences (pupil half
days)
Persistent 6.2% 5.6%
Absentees
(enrolments)
6. Growing-Up Local
1.How can young people in Hackney learn to
feel local through interacting with place?
2. How can the places of childhood in
Hackney raise the voices of young people in
the local community?
7. LEARNING PERFORMING GROWING-UP
LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL
8. HACKNEY EDUCATION
UK School
Structure
10 years ago Hackney schools
were amongst the poorest
performers in the nation.
Fee-paying
Hackney Learning Trust was schools “PUBLIC”
formed to manage all
education – outside of the
control of the Local Authority.
Hackney Learning Trust takes a
holistic approach, overseeing
support and education from 0- Sure Start Primary Secondary 11-18
19. Age: 0-4 Age: 4-11 Middle/Upper
Several schools were closed,
most schools were rebuilt. “Academy”: secondary school that has opted out of Local
Authority control so directly financed by central gov
Today, Hackney’s schools are “Free School”: primary or secondary school formed by
amongst the best performers locals and directly funded by central gov
in the UK. This year the Local
Authority has taken back their
9. ORIGIN SPACE PLACE CHALLENGE SOLVE
Who is local, Where is the What are the S What sort
who is an world of each features of Is feeling of
incomer? age group in this world? local intervention
Hackney? working?
s could
help?
Pre-School
0-4 MIGRATION
SCALES
THRESHOLDS
AGENCY
IDENTITY +
Primary
5-11
Middle
11-16
Upper
16-18
Tools: census, Tools: kids Tools: maps of Tools:
interviews maps, official official interviews
maps facilities, maps
of kids own
places,
evaluation of
places
10. Pre-school
Child Centres Map
Parent networks:
● Official (NCT)
● Spontaneous
Relational space and physical
space together.
From parent meetings,
playgrounds and childcare
options.
Hackney:
22 Child Centres
64 Child-minders
http://www.learningtrust.co.uk/map/
http://www.childcare.co.uk/search/Childminder/N16/1-miles
14. Methodology
Design for children: the spatial dimension
● Schools layouts
● Streets for children and accessibility proof
● Playgrounds “design for play”
● Project Faraday (http://www.goved.co.uk/projects/faraday) at fcbstudios
Social: the relational space
● Young people networks
● Parents networking
● Security and safety:
● Police and crime statistics
● Immigrant child detention (Nick Lessof): http://ecdn.org/category/child-detention/
● Gangs map
Contacts in Hackney:
● Mossbourne academy
● Anna Fiorentini Drama School.
● Interviews to children in a local house (Michaels)
● School teachers and headteachers network
● TED x Youth @ Hackney
● Immigrants
15. TOOLS
● Qualitative Data (Census, OFSTED...)
● Mapping (official, mental maps, kids maps)
● Interviews: adults and young people
● Drawings, photos, “favourite place in
Hackney”
● Informal talk
18. Growing Up Local - Growing The Local
Change...
Who is allowed to have an opinion on local change?
What is the role of young people who will inhabit the local city of the future? Will
they have a say in the future?
Who is "selling" the local in Hackney, and who is being sold?...
21. For whom are we making the city?
Planning for the different phases of life (Mumford, 1945)
If we build the city considering the children, then we have
build a city that can work for everyone (Tonucci)
Children in an urban world –
The State of the World Children
2012
UNICEF
