Building Together: Children's City (Children’s Architectural Workshop every Saturday in October)

Attention! Children build a city!

We invite the children of Plovdiv to join the architectural workshop at the Children's City at the Mladezhki Hill every Saturday in October. With the support of professional architects, the children will be actively involved in various building workshops and will be able to create the city of their dreams.

When: 5, 12, 19, 26 October 2019, 11am – 1pm.

Where: Mladezhki Hill (the meadow near the Adventurers Centre). 

Age: 6 +.

Free entry!

More details about the project:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2307138629345178/

https://www.goethe.de/ins/bg/bg/kul/sup/chc/1juni.html

With the support of professional architects, the children will be actively involved in various building workshops and will be able to create the city of their dreams.

The Children City is an artistic intervention at the highest hill of Plovdiv, the so called Youth Hill known for its children railway. In 2019 children of Plovdiv will be invited to join the hands-on construction of their Children City. Here, they will become active participants of city planning, architects and builders, supported by the expertise of professionals. Over the time the children erect their own town using timber, recycled materials from construction sitesand industry as well as donations from Plovdiv’s households and companies.

Picking up on the idea of ‘junkitecture’, this project upcycles what may usually be looked upon as junk into a new sustainable version of architecture. The Children City does not intended to
copy the adult world in miniature, but is deliberately a work-in-progress ideal city from a child’s perspective, where in addition children will learn about democratic decision-making, participation and sustainability – and of course have a lot of fun, too...

‘Building Together: Children's City’ is a project based on the concept by Martin Kaltwasser and Maik Ronz (Germany), implemented by Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Children´s Architectural Workshop (Bulgaria), Discovered Spaces (Bulgaria), Atelier 3 (Bulgaria) and local partners. With the support of Wilo Foundation.