Designing for Children's Best
door D4CR Association
After what kids think: visiting Harriet, 13, in Sweden
Over deze podcast
All about designing what is best for children. Ethical, enabling design discussed by design industry and academia stars. A show curated by D4CR - Designing for Children's Rights International Association - designingforchildrensrights.org
Have a look at the D4CR Design Guide - https://childrensdesignguide.org/
*** Acknowledgments ***
Podcast team - Leyla Nasib & Polina Lulu,
D4CR logo by Anna Puura,
Podcast visual by Alona Lazarenko,
Podcast music by Daniel Fokin
Afleveringen
- After what kids think: visiting Harriet, 13, in Sweden · 30 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 4Our next stop: Stockholm, where Harriet, 13, turns the tables—reflecting on what it's like to watch adults try to understand teenagers! We talk about creative freedom, complexity…
- After what kids think: visiting Alex, 11, in England · 33 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 3We're staying in England for one more conversation,—this time with Alex, 11, Wren's brother. We talk about motivation, choices, bias, interactive boards, Shakespeare’s spelling…
- After what kids think: visiting Wren, 8, in England · 31 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 2Our next stop: England — meet Wren, 8, who has a lot to say about what child-friendly really means. We talk about safety, freedom in learning, digital experiences, and how…
- After what kids think: visiting Sarah, 16, in Pakistan · 48 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 1In this season, we’re on a journey of exploring how kids understand design, children’s rights, and what we can learn from their unique insights, context, and perspectives. Hope…
- Crafting equitable play spaces · 49 min · Seizoen 1 Aflevering 11Are you ready to enrich your understanding of play and spaces that allow equitable child experiences? In this episode we are joined by Marie Williams to reflect on the urgency…
- Play, physicality and AI · 48 min · Aflevering 10What is play, playfulness, and physicality? What are their practical sides and applications in the AI Era? What boundaries should we set to ensure AI is sensitive to children's…
- Building a Positive Digital Future for Kids, with Kids—Together · 39 min · Aflevering 9Peek into the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s approach for prioritizing children’s best interests, leveraging their unique insights, and positively impacting the work of children’s…
- Children and fashion: learning through clothes · 52 min · Aflevering 8What can children tell us through their interactions with everyday clothes? And what can they learn about themselves and others through clothing? Why and how can young people…
- Strategies for using the D4CR principles in diverse contexts · 43 min · Aflevering 7Get inspired by how the D4CR principles are being applied in various organizations and academia. From inclusivity to the impact of digital technology, we explore the challenges…
- Co-creating with children in public space as design activism · 33 min · Aflevering 6250 children wrote a 40 meters long message saying “WE HAVE RIGHTS, WE DESIGN THE FUTURE” expressing with chalk their thoughts, opinions, and feelings. What a fantastic way to…
- Play in the New Children's Hospital in Copenhagen · 52 min · Seizoen 1 Aflevering 5This episode is about systemic integration of play and playfulness into Denmark’s New Children’s Hospital - Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital in Copenhagen. One of the D4CR co-founders…
- Applying children’s rights for better business and design · 30 min · Aflevering 4Applying children's rights in design for kids is a win-win-win, for the company, for the product and for the children. It’s the smartest thing to do from a business perspective…
- Speculative Design & the future of Children’s Rights in digital products · 26 min · Aflevering 3In this episode we talk about the use of Speculative Design in exploration of the future of Children’s Rights in digital products. Michelle Bruce, a star designer from D4CR’s…
- What's (age) appropriate? · 57 min · Aflevering 2Age appropriate is a trendy and widely used term in designing for children. This term is also sometimes unfortunately, overused or even abused, both intentionally and…
- Design for kids - design for impact · 43 minWelcome to Designing for Children’s Best, a podcast about how to turn our best intentions into outstanding child experiences. In this very first episode we are introducing…







