CoCriança: Sustainability for Children

The proposal comes from CoCriança, an interdisciplinary civil society organization in Brazil that combines architecture and education in participatory processes of urban intervention and awareness-raising, with a special emphasis on childhood. Working primarily in vulnerable areas, the organization seeks to strengthen citizenship and co-create innovative and sustainable solutions for cities, drawing on the experiences, desires, and needs of children.

The Civil Society Organization (CSO) was formalized in 2021 with the mission of co-creating new possibilities for a world that values childhood. Thus, it continues to develop participatory projects that recognize children as agents of territorial transformation, promoting their rights to the city, education, participation, play, and nature.

Using its own methodology, already applied in various settings since 2017, CoCriança works on the connections between children, spaces, and communities, encouraging contact with nature and a sense of belonging. By providing concrete learning situations, we intervene in reality and empower children to fully exercise their rights—to nature, to play, and to the present.

In a contemporary context of multiple crises, in which children find themselves increasingly isolated, it is urgent to reconnect them with nature and the world around them. It is necessary to be outdoors, touch the earth, and experience natural cycles to ensure healthy childhoods, integrated with the environment and belonging to the world they inhabit. The Sustainability for Childhood proposal arises from this desire and this urgency.