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Exploring Housing Conditions Through Children's Eyes/Explorando as condicoes da moradia pelos olhos das criancas

Revista de Direito da Cidade, 2019-09, Vol.11 (3), p.198

COPYRIGHT 2019 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj ;ISSN: 2317-7721 ;EISSN: 2317-7721 ;DOI: 10.12957/rdc.2019.39078

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  • Title:
    Exploring Housing Conditions Through Children's Eyes/Explorando as condicoes da moradia pelos olhos das criancas
  • Author: Hernandez-Garcia, Jaime ; Castellanos, Milena Rincon
  • Subjects: Dwellings ; Housing
  • Is Part Of: Revista de Direito da Cidade, 2019-09, Vol.11 (3), p.198
  • Description: This paper presents a methodology for exploring housing conditions through the perception of children who live in informal settlements, employing photography as the research tool. Informal housing is usually in a bad condition, affecting the health of users and often putting their lives at risk; but this is not always something users are aware of. In this sense, finding ways to make bad housing conditions visible can contribute to their improvement. With this in mind, this paper concerns children's perception of their dwellings and how these observations and insights can contribute to improve quality of life in these impoverished areas. The research was conducted with children aged between 6 and 12 years old, living in informal settlements of the Southern periphery of Bogota, Colombia. The findings confirm "old topics" regarding housing conditions and open up "new topics" as well; all of them defined by children's perceptions. In this sense, findings can help built environment practitioners and informal self-builders, understand how housing conditions impact children's health and wellbeing, and support their exploration of alternative housing solutions. Keywords: housing conditions, visual sociology, photo self-representation, photo elicitation, informal settlements. Este artigo apresenta uma metodologia para explorar as condicoes de moradia por meio da percepcao de criancas que vivem em assentamentos informais, empregando a fotografia como ferramenta de pesquisa. A habitacao informal geralmente esta em mas condicoes, afetando a saude dos usuarios e, muitas vezes, colocando suas vidas em risco; mas isso nem sempre e algo que os usuarios conhecem. Nesse sentido, encontrar maneiras de tornar visiveis as mas condicoes de habitacao pode contribuir para sua melhoria. Com isso em mente, este artigo diz respeito a percepcao das criancas sobre suas habitacoes e como essas observacoes e percepcoes podem contribuir para melhorar a qualidade de vida nessas areas pobres. A pesquisa foi realizada com criancas de 6 a 12 anos de idade, residentes em assentamentos informais da periferia sul de Bogota, Colombia. As descobertas confirmam "topicos antigos" sobre as condicoes de moradia e abrem "novos topicos" tambem; todos eles definidos pelas percepcoes das criancas. Nesse sentido, as descobertas podem ajudar os praticantes do meio ambiente construidos e construtores informais, entender como as condicoes da moradia afetam a saude e o bem-estar das criancas e apoiar a exploracao de solucoes alternativas para a habitacao. Palavras-chave: condicoes de moradia, sociologia visual, auto-representacao fotografica, obtencao de fotos, assentamentos informais.
  • Publisher: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj
  • Language: Spanish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2317-7721
    EISSN: 2317-7721
    DOI: 10.12957/rdc.2019.39078
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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