Children and architecture

We wanted to hear pupils' views on what works and doesn't work in their new school, whether they have suggestions for improvements and how they experience and use different parts of their school. The aim of the walks is to increase children's interest in architecture and create positive feelings about how to use their influence.

A creative collaboration with Möllevångsskolan, a F-9 school with students of many different nationalities and cultural backgrounds. The ambition was to get pupils to to discover what can be achieved in a city with the help of architecture and to make it easier for children to make an impact, as well as open the door to the architectural profession.

Möllevången is Sweden's most child-dense area, and Södra Skolgatan is an important link for children who travel on foot or by bike to and from their preschool/school. Together with preschoolers, we investigated the possibilities of an inner city street if it is no longer governed by the rules of the car.

In the work on a new master plan for Vellinge municipality, workshops were organized for school children in year 4 to get opinions, suggestions and ideas. The children's ideas were compiled and displayed at an exhibition at the municipal building in Vellinge and Höllviken library.

In her role as an architect and architecture educator at FOJAB, Kristina Kember puts the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into action and gives children the opportunity to influence their local environment. The architectural educator acts as a link between schools and preschools and those who plan and design.

FOJAB is one of thirty players in Malmö's civil engineering sector to sign up to improve representation in the industry. The goal is a civil engineering industry that reflects all of Malmö - within a generation.