CREATING THE FUTURE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN EDUCATION

The conference provides new ideas, means and methods to explore architecture and design with children in school and after school activities. The conference is useful for architects and designers, art teachers, educators, youth workers and day care personnel as well as officials and decision-makers involved with participation and interactive planning.

How to approach architecture with children and youth? What do senses tell about the environment? How do children learn through play?

The lectures and viewpoints of the two-day conference open up viewpoints to creativity and experiencing the environment as well as to pedagogical approaches and successful projects. The conference is useful for architects and designers, art teachers, educators, youth workers and day care personnel as well as officials and decision-makers involved with participation and interactive planning.

On both days the participants have a possibility to participate in pedagogical workshops and discover new ideas and methods hands-on. The workshops can be chosen from a broad variety of themes. The theme of the first day is space and senses, the theme of the second day is creativity and planning.

Lectures:

Creativity and Play - means of learning through chaos, Matti Bergström, emeritus professor of neurophysiology, University of Helsinki
The Creative Process of a Designer and an Architect,Vesa Honkonen, architect, designer
Listen to the Walls, Juha Ilonen, architect
Ice-cream Shop at a Volcano Slope - Architecture and Sensing, Guja Dögg Hauksdottir, architect, head of architecture department at the Reykjavik Art Museum

Viewpoints:

Learning Architecture through Play, Pihla Meskanen, architect, director of Arkki School of Architecture
Pedagogics and Architecture - Norwegian Examples, Eivind Hanch-Hansen, architect, Norway
City in Youthful Eyes, Madelene Beckman, museum pedagogue, Stockholm Architecture Museum
First-hand Experiences in Architecture with Pre-school Children, Niina Hummelin, architect, leading pedagogue of Arkki
Youth Designing their Own Environment,Angela Uttke, Dr, urban planner, JAS e.V. Berlin-Brandenburg
Architecture Breakfast and Design Dinner,Jaana Räsänen, architect, regional artist of architecture education
Learning through the School Design Process, Rosie Parnell, architect, senior lecturer, Sheffield University
Reading Buildings, Teija Isohauta, art historian MA
Design Adventures with Children, Aki Kotkas, designer
Furniture Design in childrens guidance, Bang Jeon Lee, designer, Korea

Pedagogical Workshops:

Sensing Architecture, Guja Dögg Hauksdottir, architect,
Viewpoints to the City, Niina Hummelin, architect
Images behind Alvar Aalto's Work, Teija Isohauta, art historian MA
Making Space through Movement, Jaakko Simola, dancer, choreographer
Worlds of Possibilities, Pihla Meskanen, architect
Hut Building, Krista Meskanen, architect student
Architecture Upside Down - Discovering Spaces, Madelene Beckman, museum pedagogue
Brainstorming through the Decades, Jaana Räsänen, architect Sweet Architecture, Sini Meskanen, architect
The Art of Building Traditions, Janne Inkeroinen, environmental artist
Oswald and the Objects, Hanna Kapanen, artist, workshop leader
Recycled Design, Aki Kotkas, designer

The Conference is organized by Arkki, School of Architecture for Children and Youth in collaboration with Architecture and design education group Ampiainen. The conference is supported by the Ministry of Education and the National Council for Architecture. The official languages of the conference are Finnish and English. Finnish lectures are interpreted into English. Fee 100 €/ 1 day or 150 €/ 2 days, students 50 €/ 1 day or 80 €/ 2 days. The fee includes coffee and lunch.

Conference Program

Arkki arranges architectural workshops for children during New York Design Week 2009

Saturday, 16 May, Workshop 1: 11am-1pm, Workshop 2: 2pm-4pm, Free of charge, For 8 y and up
Gansevoort Plaza (Gansevoort St. between Hudson St. and 9^th Ave., NY 10014), Meatpacking District, NYC
Part of 'Playful: New Finnish Design' 15-18 May 2009
Limited attendance (2 workshops for 30 kids each), rsvp to: magdalena.herrgard@formin.fi

Builders of the Future and Hatwalk

In the workshop you learn about structures and architecture in a sweet way! Our aim is to create our own 3D architectural masterpieces using cocktail-sticks and sweets as the components of the building. The structures of Sweet Architecture are based on space geometry; the sticks work as structural elements and the sweets as joints. The results can be anything - from complex structures to fairy-tail castles. And the process of creating Sweet Architecture is fun and sweet - you can actually taste the flavor of architecture.

The 3D models will be built on platform as buildings are built on ground. A hole of the size of one´s head will be cut to the platform. The platform can also be designed and shaped architecturally to make a beautiful entity with the sweet building. The building or structure will be fastened to the platform and there you are; a sweet piece of architecture which is also a hat that you can wear!

In the end of the workshop everyone gets a chance to show off his hat at the stage in Hatwalk. All the buildings, structures and pieces of architecture turned into hats will be exhibited at a show called Hatwalk where every single hat gets a chance to introduce itself.