Finding a Park in Lahti 1

Finland    1 | See all    Eeva-Liisa Kauppila
children, city planning, design, park, Participatory design
Project Overview

In this design project children become familiar with built environment around our school building. Group of nine year old and group of twelve year old participate in this design project. The actual place for project is located in the park behind the school building. What would be the childrens point of view to the park? We will also become familiar with city planning and design prosess in general.

 

City planning architects Päivi Airas and Anne-Maj Rope and city gardener Kirsi Kujala will participate in this design project.

News
30.09.2010 New Fence at Park
07.05.2010 Final presentation for city planning architects and city...
30.04.2010 Journalist interviewed pupils in Lahti
12.02.2010 Visiting Lahti City Planning Office
Latest comments
14.06.2010
How colourful the fence will be! During winter time, with...
Bernadette deLoose
11.05.2010
Awsome! You're making a fabulous fence over there!
Leena Svinhufvud
02.03.2010
The scale model you made looks very impressive and...
Maari Fabritius
02.03.2010
 It really looks a very nice material to cut! Must be...
Leena Svinhufvud
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<p>TAIKA Finding a Park exhibition in Lahti Region Environmental Service 6.10.-30.11.2010.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We met&nbsp;at saturday morning with both groups (Finding a Park 1 and 2)&nbsp;and painted the figures. It was raining the&nbsp;whole day so we had to paint indoors.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Today I met Lahti city gardeners Hannu Neuvonen and&nbsp;Kirsi Kujala.&nbsp;Anne Lehto who will coordinate building&nbsp;process&nbsp;participate also&nbsp;in the meeting.&nbsp;They had desided to replace small part of the existing fence based on one of the childrens design&nbsp;(red background&nbsp;with folourful figures)&nbsp;.&nbsp;Meeting was also about&nbsp;about the timetable and&nbsp;structure of the new fence. We also desided that carpenter will build the fence and paint a first coat. Children will paint the colorful figures afterwards.</p>
<p>Today pupils presented a new design for fence and model in scale 1:1 (We will finish the model after summer holiday). Also group of twelve year old presented their designs on wednesday. During&nbsp;summer time city gardener and city planning architects will&nbsp;define timetable and how to built the fence based on children designs.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>First pupil discussed and draw sketches. After that we collected everything that been made and selected best idea. Idea was to use existing fence as a base for a new design. Pupils comments about the existing fence: gray, boring, dark... Could it be folorful and jouful? Pulils idea for wooden fence is to replace most of the boards with the colorful animal figures and paint remain boards.</p> <p>Pupils make together a model in scale 1:1</p>
<p>After finishing the models we will look at closely a fence around the park. Task is to design a fence together and also built a model in scale 1:1.</p>
<p>Today city planning architects and city gardener visited our school. Pupils presented their ideas and projects for them.</p>
<p>Today we started to built models (scale 1:100) in small groups or individually. We use materials as wood, insulation board, fabrik, metal, paper, cardboard, small stones, recycled materials...</p>
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