VAN HOPELOOS NAAR HOTSPOT

#30 Mustafa Sherif: child-friendly cities


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🚸 How can we design inclusive cities that truly welcome everyone and especially children? 

In this inspiring episode of the Hopeless to Hotspot Podcast, I chat with the passionate Mustafa Sherif. He’s an urban planner, studio manager at AFRY, director of Placemaking Sweden and host of the Urbanistica podcast 🎙.

Mustafa’s mission is to create child-friendly, playful, and inclusive cities.

His core belief? “A city for children is a city for all!”. Why? Because children’s needs are very basic and still very important for adults and elderly as well! Some examples: playing/moving around, meeting others and feeling part of a community.

🇸🇪 Mustafa explains that Swedish cities are known for their structure, cleanliness, and efficiency, which is wonderful of course. But the downside is that cities are over-organized –leaving too little room for spontaneity and the energy of public life – which makes cities too rigid. Therefore, he’s dedicated to bringing it back by focusing on child-friendly cities!

In this episode, you’ll discover: 

✔️ Why child-friendly urban design benefits everyone
✔️ The power of placemaking & why Sweden needs it more than ever  
✔️ The important role of play & movement in childhood development
✔️ How to truly involve kids & communities in shaping their own environments

Enjoy! 

Stay glowing ✨,

Sandra
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p.s. The beautiful picture of Mustafa is made by Jenny Öhman!

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