A mini-Talkoot was hosted at the colorful Toca Boca office in Stockholm. Local chapter representatives and the steering group came together to discuss how to increase & measure our impact, create a website wishlist, discuss local chapter facilitation, and much more.
During the Covid pandemic we organised a global online event Remotekoot with six international teams hosted by a local chapter or a working group:
1. Improving the D4CR Guide, hosted by the Helsinki Chapter
2. Designing for Children in the Times of Crisis, hosted by the Malmö Chapter
3. D4CR Principles by Children, hosted by the Eindhoven Chapter
4. D4CR Online Course, hosted by the Online Course working group
5. Localisation & Translation to Hebrew, hosted by the Tel Aviv Chapter
6. Child Rights in the City, hosted by the Berlin Chapter
In January 2019, we organised the second full weekend event – Talkoot 2019 in Copenhagen. The event was hosted by Designit Copenhagen with over 70 international participants.
During the Talkoot weekend we developed solutions and ideas that sparked our children as stakeholders, D4CR MOOC and local chapter initiatives.
We registered a non-profit association in Denmark with the official name: Designing for Children’s Rights Association. Later we started to use the acronym D4CR. The purpose of the association is to support and nurture the D4CR Guide and the active and growing D4CR community to set new standards when designing for children and youth, as well as raising awareness on ethics and U.N. declaration of child rights in the business, service and product design processes.
In collaboration with UNICEF, we hosted our first global 48-hour event – Talkoot 2018 – that gathered over 70 heroes with different disciplines – designers, psychologists, neuroscientists, health care specialists, educators, engineers, researchers, business owners and child rights experts.
During this event, the first version of the Designing for Children’s Rights Guide was co-created and published. From here on our international community expanded with many amazing people. The Design Guide was highlighted in press in Finland and internationally, and it was shared within multiple companies, educational institutions, conference audiences all around the world.
In Autumn, UNLEASH global innovation lab gathered talent from all over the world to collaborate on solutions to meet the United Nations’ SDGs. And connected designers with similar passion for advancing better design for children in the world.
“Children’s Digital Safety” IxDA Helsinki chapter event was organised in Elisa's office in Helsinki, Finland in collaboration with UNICEF Finland. The workshop event gathered over 30 designers from different companies. During the event the ideas about co-creating a Design Guide in a weekend-long hands-on event were born.
First meetings between UNICEF Finland and designers in Elisa in Helsinki, Finland. Teh collaboration started around UNICEF’s Children’s Online Safety Assessment tool.
