The Urban Childhood Lab explores how children’s development is shaped by play, ecology, and social interaction within urban environments. Grounded in ecological and sociocultural approaches, the lab examines children’s everyday engagement with city spaces, natural elements, and peer communities.
Through interdisciplinary methods, this research investigates how play, environmental affordances, and socialization processes interact to support cognitive, emotional, and social development, with particular attention to children’s lived experiences in contemporary urban ecologies.
Collaborators:
Birge Yıldırım Okta (School of Architecture, Liverpool John Moores University
Ayşenur Benevento (Psychology Department, Bahçeşehir University)
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