The Municipal School of Architecture
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Architecture is a tool for democracy. At the Municipal School of Architecture in Borlänge, children and young people learn about both the physical environment and the community building process. The School of Architecture is free and available to anyone who wants to.The goal is not to turn everyone to architects, but to establish the right of every child to freely express her or his views, in all matters affecting her or him, which the built environment do.
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Borlänge kommun
Description of the project
Summary
Architecture is a tool for democracy. At the School of Architecture in Borlänge municipality, children and young people learn about both the physical environment and the community building process. The School of Architecture is free and available to everyone. The school explore, and develops sustainable and democratic places with architecture as a method. The goal is not to turn everyone to architects, but to establish the right of every child to freely express her or his views, in all matters affecting her or him, which the built environment do. Our motto is Gropius words: ”Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Together let us conceive and create the new building of the future.”
Key objectives for sustainability
The aim is to let the terms of sustainable building grow in early ages. Architecture is our tool. The school explores, and develops sustainable and democratic places with architecture as a method. The point is to reach everyone, regardless of class, at an early age. As a civic right.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
The understanding of materials, structure, aesthetics and construction is gained through practical exercises in architecture. With the architecture as a method.
Key objectives for inclusion
The Municipal School of Architecture is free and available to averyone. The aim is to reach everyone, regardless of class, at an early age. This knowledge as a civic right. The basic knowledge of making sustainable and democratic places.
Results in relation to category
After joining the architecture school the children becomes members of an expert group that helps the planners to build the municipality. This is a method to bring in the child perspective in planning, but aloso to establish the right of every child to freely express her or his views, in all matters affecting her or him, which the built environment do.
How Citizens benefit
Architecture is a holistic perspective on buildig a society. It is with the help of architecture that environments are designed so that they become accessible to all. Society's spaces become common through the design of the physical environment, but still through the structure of the democratic planning process. Creating common spaces requires the perspective of everyone be included in the design of our environment. It is a human right to be a part of it and to know how to influence.
Innovative character
By provide the basic knowledge of architecture to every citizen we can grow on a sustainable and stable ground.
