Youth voice: Use of creative methods to engage children and young people in co-designing school food policies and practice
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- Speaker
- Professor Greta Defeyter
- Host
- Oxford Martin School (Unit)
- Series
- Lexi Earl
- Location
- Oxford Martin School - Seminar room 1 (ground floor), Seminar room 1 (ground floor), Oxford Martin School, 35 Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3BD, United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Oxford
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Youth voice: Use of creative methods to engage children and young people in co-designing school food policies and practiceProfessor Greta Defeyter, Northumbria UniversityDate: Thursday 12 November, 16:00, Oxford Martin School or onlineAbstract: Design for policy discourse is often focused on how design supports policy making in central government. And yet, there are other design practices that are contributing to policy development. We frame our work as designing for policy, design work that is happening outside formal policy space, aimed at impacting policy. The first study presents learnings based on a series of co-design interventions, with young people, in four English local authorities to a) design age-appropriate Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programmes and b) impact national policy. The second study focusses on co-designing the school meal service in a large, secondary school located in an area of high deprivation in the North East of England. This study reports on some tensions between actors in co-designing a sustainable school food offer and provides insights into wider, non-food factors that need to be considered. In expanding what might be considered 'design for policy and practice', we hope to draw attention to considerations required when trying to influence policy and practice through the designing of public services. We adopt an infrastructuring approach that utilises creative methods to help us learn about and influence policy whilst also delivering value at local and national levels.
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