This course addresses environmental learning and spatial design with children and youth. Course readings and lectures will introduce participants to historical and contemporary notions of urban pedagogies, their methodological approaches, such as walking, drawing, mapping, building, narrating, recording, imaging, filming, and podcasting, and the spatial and environmental concepts that they evoke. A workshop in collaboration with a public institution enables the practical part of the course where we will work with young people. The course is based on group work and emphasizes the importance of an ethical approach to both fellow students and participating children and youth. The course aims to develop different pedagogical formats for environmental learning with young people.
AD252V Environmental Learning and Spatial Practice with Young People 7.5 credits
Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2026 Start 28 Jan 2026 single courses students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 28 Jan 2026 - 1 Jun 2026
- Periods
Spring 2026: P3 (3 hp), P4 (4.5 hp)
- Pace of study
25%
- Application code
10249
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
English
- Course memo
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- Number of places
10 - 20
- Target group
- Non-program students, working proffesionals
- Planned modular schedule
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Course syllabus as PDF
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Course syllabus AD252V (Autumn 2024–)Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
After the completed course the student shall be able to:
- Give an insight of the field of urban pedagogy.
- Know about existing policies that protect children as well as about the current ethical discourses on the participation of young people in design projects.
- Plan work with children in agreement with ethical rules.
- Use the field’s theories and methods for practical project proposals.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
University studies of 60 credits and documented level of English B or comparable.
Literature
Examination and completion
Grading scale
Examination
- SEM1 - Seminars, 2.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
- PRO1 - Project (assignment/work), 2.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
- UPP1 - Written report, 2.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.