兒童參與環境計畫已在全世界許多地區實踐,並成為人與環境研究中重要議題。本文藉由相關文獻回顧兒童參與議題之發展以及其重要概念,另並以台灣之實際案例描述兒童參與環境計畫空間營造時之表現,並討論其參與機制。兒童參與,在空間營造的不同階段是有不同程度的,且個別差異大於性別或年齡的差異。兒童在空間營造時,其體經驗優於抽象思考,身體的直接體驗表現為直覺思考,並有助於「創造性」構想。對於兒童而言,空間的搭建是為了完成空間營造的任務,建立起地方依附。因此,為了提高兒童參與的程度,一方面需協助兒童在實質空間體驗與設計之抽象思考之間的轉換,同時也需細緻的建構空間營造的學習鷹絮。這些經驗有助於日後兒童參與時,提高其參與的起始程度,以及從構想至實際執行的可能。
Children's participating environmental planning has been practiced for years around world. It has become an important issue in human-environment studies. This paper reviews related references, discusses the development of children's participation and its critical concepts. The later part of this paper takes one project to describe the performance of children's participating environmental planning-space construction. During different phases, children participate with different degrees of initiation. Besides, individual difference is larger than that of different ages or genders. During space construction, children's concrete experiences are better than abstract thinking; physical experiences transform to be instinct thinking, and creative ideas. For children, the building of space is to complete the task of space construction, and build up place attachment. Therefore, in order to increase the degrees of children's participation, we not only need to assist children's converting between physical space experiencing and abstract thinking, but also carefully scaffold children's space construction. Through the experience of this project, we learn how to increase the degrees of children's participation, from the concept to the practice.