Centering children and youth in cities today.
Change your spaces and practices to truly include children and young people.
About us.
Metalude brings a diverse skill set to child-centred and inclusive cities and playable public spaces. With a focus on child rights, the organization develops innovative projects in which children participate actively in decision-making and where their needs and aspirations shape the spaces around them.
Discover our services.
Taking the first step can be the hardest part. Our enthusiastic and experienced team helps you implement projects to include children, invite their participation and create play-friendly spaces.
Public participation and engagement.
Including children and youth in the decisions that concern them improves their day-to-day life while enriching the community. We lead engagement and participatory urban planning processes that listen to children and youth with a view to building inclusive cities designed to meet their needs.
Play-friendly
public spaces.
A city with places to play is a great place to live! We help you develop public spaces that foster play and well-being and help children and youth blossom. Develop a true play culture in your community with our guidance.
Guidance for building child-friendly municipalities.
Promoting inclusion requires social, organizational and spatial change. Let’s join forces to create truly inclusive communities.
What people are saying about us.
Children’s priorities as policy recommendations
Linking children’s priorities to achievable policy recommendations and to our language helped us see the tangible links between the drawings and our work of advocating for more caring, inclusive and resilient metropolises.
Oscar Chamat-Nuñez,
Research and Policy Officer, Metropolis
Natural rapport
I felt a natural rapport with Metalude during our first collaboration, on the La mitaine perdue (lost mitten) project. Their expertise highlights the theoretical and practical links between play, the city and public participation.
Marie-Hélène Roch,
Artist-Researcher, Founder of Hiver en nous
Authentic and ethical engagement
Metalude demonstrated their ability to design authentic and ethical engagement. Margaret and Stephanie are skilled at navigating the children’s insights and the city’s urban planning priorities.
Caroline Schindler,
Development Officer – Democracy, Concertation Montréal
