Participatory Design of School Kitchens in Chinandega
In 2017 the international organization Arquitectura Sin Fronteras (Architecture Without Borders) led a project that aimed at improving the cooking infrastructure and provision of healthy food in schools located in the Nicaraguan region of Chinandega. The project included a participatory component which consisted in the collective design of the school kitchens; the mothers of the pupils took part in several planning workshops in which they drew on their experience of preparing the children?s meals in order to define the best setup for such kitchens and the tools that would best suit their culture and needs.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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