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Culture
Working on a project exploring how place is used, expressed or understood today?
This category is likely a good fit.
This category focuses on how children and young people shape the cultural identity and meaning of place in the present.
Projects may vary in scale and stage — from early ideas through to implemented change.
It includes work where their input influences:
how spaces are used
how identity is expressed
how place is understood today
The key is current cultural use and meaning, not heritage.
What this includes
Input shaping cultural use of space
Contributions influencing identity or expression
Work exploring how place is experienced culturally
Changes to how spaces are used or understood
What counts
Evidence of changed use or meaning
Cultural outcomes affecting how place is experienced
Contributions shaping identity in the present
This doesn’t include
Historical interpretation (→ Heritage)
Community participation without cultural lens (→ Community)
Creative work without connection to place
If your work spans multiple areas, choose the category that best represents what was shaped. If it fits within two categories, submit each application separately as an original entry
Examples of strong submissions
These illustrate how children and young people have influenced outcomes — not just taken part.
Young people shaped how a place is represented, influencing creative outputs that reflect local identity.
Young people contributed to how stories of a place are told and experienced.
Young people influenced how culture is expressed within a space, shaping its meaning and use.