Kid-Friendly World, Designing Inclusive Businesses, Communities, Destinations, and Experiences for Children and Families.
Course Description
This course is part of the Kid-Friendly World project—a global initiative to help cities, destinations, hotels, events, and services become more welcoming to children and families. It equips professionals with practical tools and insights to design environments that are not only inclusive for children but also more appealing to families, businesses, and communities.
The course is organized into five key sections:
• How Children Experience the World – Understand how physical, cognitive, emotional, and sensory development shapes how children move, perceive, decide, and interact with spaces.
• Designing for Children – Learn how to create family-friendly communities, accommodations, events, and public spaces that support exploration, comfort, and return visits.
• Measuring Kid-Friendliness – Discover effective tools for evaluating children’s experiences through observation, surveys, creative methods, and participatory research with families.
• Broader Impacts and Long-Term Change – Explore how child-centered design improves public health, economic vitality, and social equity—and how to embed these values into planning, policy, and funding.
• Global Insights and Future Innovation – Draw inspiration from international case studies, trends, and frameworks to support cross-sector collaboration and sustainable change.
Whether you manage a hotel, shape public policy, design spaces, or plan events, this course offers the skills, evidence, and frameworks to help you build a truly kid-friendly world.
