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Project overview
An educational project for children combining Maker Movement principles with future-oriented urban thinking, creating an immersive, hands-on environment where participants explored technology while co-creating visionary concepts of tomorrow’s cities.
The initiative positioned children not only as learners, but as active contributors to speculative urban thinking and participatory design.
Main objectives
The project focused on three key areas:
Practical learning: introducing children to DIY practices and basic electronics through building simple circuits, enabling them to understand the invisible technological layers that shape contemporary cities.
Collaboration and creativity: facilitating teamwork where participants collectively envisioned future urban ecosystems, resulting in bold concepts such as space-based transport systems, reimagined educational structures and nature-integrated architectures.
Democratization of urban planning: challenging hierarchical urban planning models by demonstrating that young participants possess valuable insight into community needs, spatial relationships and future-oriented thinking.
Achieved results
The project successfully engaged children in a blended process of technical skill-building and speculative design. The workshop environment fostered curiosity, critical thinking and a deep sense of agency in shaping future environments.
Main reflection
By integrating technical experimentation with imaginative exploration, the project highlighted children’s remarkable ability to propose meaningful and forward-thinking urban solutions.
Their ideas offered unexpectedly mature perspectives on shared spaces, accessibility and infrastructural functionality.
The level of engagement was so high that one participant attempted to “hack time” by turning back the clock to extend the workshop, a small but powerful reminder that in the cities of the future, learning may well be boundless.