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GUEVARA-SANGINES, Martha Leticia  e  RODRIGUEZ GOMEZ, Margarita. Future housing representations of children from rural areas. Acad. (Asunción) [online]. 2025, vol.12, n.2, e1132.  Epub 30-Abr-2025. ISSN 2414-8938.  https://doi.org/10.30545/academo.2025.n2.1132.

Based on experiences, during childhood people develop cognitive, affective and motor abilities, to comprehend different circumstances, to generate beliefs and to glimpse the future. An outstanding situation is housing and its environment, whether rural or urban. The representation of this can be expressed through drawing which allows revealing the construction of oneself, its reality, its significance and motivations. The purpose was to investigate, through pictorial representation, the way in which children from rural areas depict the place where they want to live as adults, which elements integrate it and how they are organized. The method was mixed. 145 children, aged from 6 to 13 years old, from seven rural schools in Guanajuato, México, were asked to draw their future house. Content analysis and statistical analysis of the drawings were carried out. The results showed children’s consciousness about space, the environmental conditions, and the desire to improve these conditions. This points out a construction generated among the participants about their development and their real and imagined context, which became apparent in differences and similarities of the illustrations, as well as in their vision of certainties, uncertainties and hope for future well-being.

Palavras-chave : Childhood; drawing; housing; visualization; rural areas.

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