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"Feet on the ground, window to the sky" is a mini-documentary that brings to light the importance of the protagonism of youth in the process of planning, elaboration and decision making related to urban designs. Through the story of Yasmin Bernardo, a young resident of a community in Ibura, Recife (Pernambuco), it is possible to access, at the same time, a critical perspective of the reality she lives in, as well as creative and inventive ways to overcome limitations imposed by social inequalities, urban violence, among other elements that prevent young people like her from fully experiencing what the city has to offer. The documentary is the result of the Designing Public Spaces Workshop held by UN-Habitat in December 2021, when young people from Ibura discussed the challenges and desires for public spaces in the community. The workshop on Designing Public Spaces is a participatory methodology of UN-Habitat, implemented in 10 territories of the state, under the "Pernambuco Cooperation", in order to learn the perspectives of young people about the feeling of insecurity in public spaces, and access their ideas and proposals for solutions and improvements. The "Pernambuco Cooperation: Prevention, Citizenship and Security" is a technical cooperation firmed among UN-Habitat, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Igarapé Institute and Pernambuco's Secretariat for Violence and Drug Prevention Policies (SPVD) to generate data, qualify information and contribute to the strengthening of social crime and violence prevention policies in the state.