A new chapter for Re-street

Re-Street is now officially a non-profit. But this milestone isn’t really about a new legal status. It’s about continuing a journey that began with a simple question: what if we truly listened to children when designing our cities?

When people ask us why we started Re-Street, we often find ourselves going back to the same moment.

It wasn’t one big event or a single conversation. It was a series of small observations that slowly changed the way we looked at cities.

We began paying closer attention to how children actually use public space. Not how it was designed for them, but how they naturally moved through it. The shortcuts they created. The places they chose to play. The games they invented in spaces that adults barely noticed.

Again and again, we realised that the city on paper was often very different from the city children experienced. That made us wonder:

What of we stopped assuming we knew what children needed? what if we simply asked them?

That question became the starting point for Re-Street.

Over the past year, we’ve explored it through creative workshops, conversations, and collaborative activities with children. Every workshop has reminded us that participation isn’t about asking children to solve urban challenges. It’s about recognising that they already experience cities in thoughtful, creative, and often surprising ways.

Their ideas have challenge our assumptions. Sometimes they’ve reminded us of things we’ve forgotten as adults. Sometimes they’ve shown us connections we hadn’t considered before.

Becoming a non-profit gives us the opportunity to continue building partnerships, developing workshops, and exploring new ways to bring children’s perspectives into conversations about public space and urban design.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us, challenged us, collaborated with us, and believed in this idea from the very beginning.

We’re just getting started.