D4CR Local Chapters are sharing Designing For Children’s Rights (D4CR) global non-profit association principles and values, thinking global and acting local.
D4CR Scottish Local Chapter is a collaborative platform to rethink children’s clothing, placing the youngest generations and their material and intangible environment at the heart of an inclusive and participative reflection on the socialising and educational power of clothes, within the ethical framework of D4CR.
About us
IN2FROCC – International and interdisciplinary network for the research on children and clothing
As a significant part of childhood material culture, children’s clothes contribute to shaping their social identity, gender, age, as well as to developing their senses of and supporting their interactions with their environment. The focus on children’s education and well-being has never been so essential, and their voices are emphasised in the design of an inclusive future. Learn more…
News
D4CR podcast new episode “Children and fashion: learning through clothes”
IN2FROCC and the Scottish and French D4CR Local Chapters have been invited to participate to a fascinating discussion around the major challenges around clothing and questions of Sustainable development… Listen to the podcast
The Tell Me 2 exhibition is online!
‘An online exhibition where children tell
and tell each other in clothes’
“Tell me 2” creates a link between children from the suburbs of Paris (France) and the city of Wuxi in eastern China. This online exhibition presents the outcome of this exchange between two groups of school children aged 8 to 9, from October to December 2022. Following a child-led approach .. Visit the online exhibition
2022 #WorldChildrensDay – I have a right to…
What have all the ideas expressed by these children in common? The need to express themselves and be heard. But how can we hear children’s voices and amplify them? How and where can we build spaces where this expression can be facilitated and collected properly? The right to be educated, The right to express their feelings, The right to be treated fairly, The right to be informed, The right to play, The right to a happy childhood. Why is the work conducted by the IN2FROCC network and within ‘Tell Me’ project important to support children’s voices? Why work through the prism of children’s clothing and identity? More…
“Towards an Informed, Participative and Sustainable Approach of Children’s Fashion and Clothing: IN2FROCC in Action” academic paper published
We are glad to announce that the research paper we have co-authored: “Towards an Informed, Participative and Sustainable Approach of Children’s Fashion and Clothing: IN2FROCC in Action” in connection with our activities within IN2FROCC network has now been published in the academic journal “Emerald Studies in Child Centred Practice / Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World, Part A” https://www.emerald.com/…/978-1-80117-406…/full/html
“This edited collection explores advancing understandings of child centred practice through the lens of childhood studies. Contributions from around the world offer a foundation to acknowledge and support the place that children’s voices must play in creating effective practice as we respond to seismic social change“.
The continuation of the ‘Tell Me’ project with China. Paris/Pantin, France – Jiangsu/Wuxi, China
Based on the visual analysis of what children wear and how they define themselves in fashion, the “Amis-habits” of schools around the world share their daily interactions with clothing. More soon…
‘Not Only Dressed but Dressing – Clothing Childhood Creativity‘ seminar
IN2FROCC – Childhood and clothing research network and D4CR French and Scottish Local Chapters have taken part in the “Not Only Dressed but Dressing – Clothing Childhood Creativity” seminar in Cholet, France, on the 9th of September 2022. https://lnkd.in/d96wDtua
Projects
Tell Me 1 and 2 – An online exhibition based on children’s way of telling about their clothes. Visit the gallery
The gathering of Scottish actors in the field of design impacting children, around the D4CR principles, through meetings and events
Picture – Tell me, IN2FROCC-D4CR, February 2022
International projects involving directly children and fostering a better consideration and understanding of children’s voices in the field of children’s clothing and identity and beyond
‘Tell Me’ project
This is the first project with children, developed under the umbrella of D4CR as part of the IN2FROCC programme. Based on the visual analysis of what children wear… Read more
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