When plans were being made for a new building for The Children's HouseNursery in North East Lincolnshire, the children were very much part ofthe consultation process for the architect's brief. Staff discussed thebrief with the children, they gave them cameras to photograph places,things, and people they liked, and observed them in the setting withnotes taken of where they were going at different points in the day,what they liked to do, and where their favourite places were.
This revealed that the children liked to both greet and wave goodbye totheir parents, and to watch farm animals outside. They liked to be ableto see outdoors.
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