For three decades the Design Exchange has led workshops, tours and summer camps to bring awareness and education to children of all ages.
Shauna Levy, President of the Design Exchange, said that this museum is all “about architecture… fashion, interior design, graphic design, it’s really about conveying the idea that design is culture.”
This summer, the Design Exchange partnered with Kaleidoscope Kids to expand their reach by delivering hands-on design workshops to kids at a summer camp.
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“The Design Exchange relationship is so important because there are many children who would never have the opportunity to visit the Design Exchange, never mind work with them in a creative environment where they really get to use skills that the probably didn’t know they had,” Deborah Knight, Programming Director of Kaleidoscope Kids said.
The workshop begins with a guided discussion about neighbourhoods then moves on to focus on city and urban planning and collaborative art making.
Knight said these workshops benefit the children by having professionals “show them ideas that are really outside of their everyday experience.”
After brainstorming ideas, the children worked together to create scale models of their dream neighbourhoods, including parks, bike paths and public transit.
“This is an opportunity to educate children about the value and relevancy of design to everyday living,” Levy said. “A swimming pool in a neighbourhood, or why you wouldn’t want a factory next to your home, or why cross walks are important and why side walks are important; that’s all design and it’s really important to be able to convey that to children so that they understand.”
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