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Abstract
Children and youth have become an important stakeholder group in urban/city planning and tourism. While there are many practices of youth participation in planning in various countries, a policy of involving pupils and students as so-called ‘volunteer (tourist) guides’ is promoted in recent years in Japan. Previous studies have shown that there are many positive effects created from children being tourist guides. We developed this idea and conducted a project called ‘C my city!’ in Finland in order to facilitate children and youth to introduce their home city through digital storytelling. In the pilot project, 38 digital stories were made by the participants and the stories were embedded on a web-based map. Through analysis of the articulated words in the stories, we investigated how they introduced their home city. Furthermore, we discussed possibilities of applying this method in cross-curricular settings in school.
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank all the participants, their families, the teachers and staff at Arkki, Sini Karelia Koivisto and Jenny Suhonen for developing the pilot phase, Nick Kirkwood for proofreading the text, and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Yutaro Ohashi received a research grant from Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.
Notes
Arkki offers a variety of architectural courses to young people and creates educational curriculums for schools, museums and after school art and architecture clubs. Over 450 children aged between 4 to 19 participate weekly in architectural courses on a long-term basis.