This is an activity that aims to explain to children what urban planning is and to make them aware of the importance of the city and collective life.

We want to explain to children why it is necessary to plan cities before building them and the importance that these decisions have in our daily lives. We want them to know why the cities we live in are the way they are and how they have evolved to this point. We want them to understand that we have common spaces that we share; the streets, the squares, the public facilities that we use, and which are all a product of our needs.

Most of the activity takes place around a collaborative game consisting of the construction of a large-format model of a city, where the pieces used are the different elements previously explained. From the game, they can develop their ideas, share them with their classmates and put into practice some of the concepts learned.

It is an activity with a history of more than 10 years, which has passed through many schools and cities in our territory. It began from the initiative of Urbanins, which over time has ended up joining the Estel cooperative.

This is an activity that aims to reflect with children on daily mobility in the school environment and understand the importance of measures that promote active and sustainable mobility.

During the workshop, we work on both those physical and design aspects of the public space that determine its routes (sidewalk widths, pavements, street furniture…) as well as mobility habits and the rest of the factors that influence the way we move around the city.

The activity begins with a debate in the classroom to define the particular school path of the center, the advantages and disadvantages of its situation and the profile of the users, proposing possibilities for change through their own habits to tend towards sustainable mobility.

Afterwards, a discovery itinerary of the center’s surroundings is carried out. In the class group he goes out to the street to represent scenes that may occur during his School Journey and analyze them critically.

Finally, in groups, proposals are made to improve the environment, for the benefit of their own autonomy and movement with active means, which are reflected in a traffic sign that they can display publicly in the classroom or at the center.

It is an activity with a history of more than 10 years, which has passed through many schools and cities in our territory. It started from the Urbanins initiative, which over time has ended up being added to the Estel cooperative.

The basic way to involve boys and girls in city decisions are the territorial Councils for Children and Adolescents, based on the determinations of the convention on the Rights of the Child, approved by the United Nations in 1989. 

This is the stable structure of participation, based on the determinations established by local entities so that all boys and girls of a certain age group have a voice in the council. 

Estel, following the line initiated by Urbanins team in 2017, is committed to a structure based on the maximum representativeness of the educational community that allows for the elaboration of a shared diagnosis of the municipality, and the elaboration of proposals so that they can be applied from the city council, jointly with the different departments involved.

​Estel advises several municipalities with the desire to start and consolidate them, so that they become another tool for child participation from now on, as well as to energize them in those that already have it underway.

One of the values ​​that we provide is the technical point of view on urban planning in the structures of citizen participation and the possibility of involving councilors in processes of co-design of public space or other urban transformations that are underway in the municipality.

This activity aims to encourage young people to reflect on the transformations that cities undergo over time, adapting their spaces to the changing needs of the community.

The workshop begins with a discussion on the urban transformation process, using three real examples and analyzing the various stakeholders involved: the administration, technical teams, and the community. It is essential for participants to understand that the community plays a key role in shaping the urban environment. The goal is to empower young people and motivate them to actively engage in similar processes within their own cities.

During the practical part of the workshop, participants are divided into groups to reimagine a square, working with specific conditions assigned to each group. Each team creates a sketch of how they would transform the square, considering the types of activities that could take place, the configuration of the surfaces (such as concrete, compacted soil, or soft materials), and the physical elements that would be included (urban furniture, greenery, play elements, etc.).

This workshop has over 10 years of experience and has been conducted in numerous educational centers and cities in our region. It was created thanks to the initiative of Urbanins, which has since become integrated into the Estel cooperative.