Baukultur Bildung (BKB) for children and young people is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses architecture, urban planning and design, art, environmental education, educational science and pedagogy. BKB utilises the built environment – settlements, buildings and identity carriers – as an object, learning context and curricular resource. There are various actors around the world working in the field of BKB. Their backgrounds range from education officers in museums and architecture centres to the wider cultural/third sector and design and planning practitioners to teachers in schools and kindergartens.

This Ludantia exhibition at TU Berlin aims to bring together stakeholders working in different areas of the field, further establishing BKB as a unique field of education, research and practice internationally.

The exhibition at TU Berlin is being accompanied by a series of BKB workshops for children – organised by the association Jugend Architektur Stadt (JAS e.V.), lectures by international key figures, an international expert workshop and the presentation of two books on the subject.

The exhibited projects suggest that the best way to think about the built environment is through action and practical activities, as this is the only way to change the world we live in. The educational projects on show represent the transformation of spaces through the use of the artistic language of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature, cinema, theatre, dance and many others. In all the projects presented, children and young people were the sole initiators of the work and the projects. The projects critically reflect on public, urban, school and natural space from an educational perspective and – from the transformative viewpoint of the children and young people who took part in the projects – develop proposals for improving the space.

Photos: Jorge Raedó