Training for Teachers: PlaySpaceCity - Sensitization for the Built Environment

Although we spend most of our lives in an architecture or in the built environment, and the culture of construction significantly influences our well-being, it often remains in the shadows of our consciousness. Why is that? And how can it be changed?

As part of the training, low-threshold approaches and strategies are taught to sensitize participants to the built environment. Participants gain insights into architectural and perceptual psychology, test strategies using the PlaySpaceCity concept to engage children and adolescents in thinking, speaking, and philosophizing about architecture, and receive playful suggestions and exercises that can help sensitize children and adolescents to the built environment.

This training will be discovered within the framework of the two themes that characterize this year's residencies: Playtime and Vernacular Spectacular. For the first time, topics will be addressed that illuminate the impact of a playful artist project on the architecture and urbanity of a city, while the second topic will explore the peculiarities of a city and its architectures.

Dr. Turit Fröbe is an architectural historian and urbanist. She has worked for a long time as a research assistant and concurrently as a guest professor at the University of the Arts Berlin. In 2014, she founded the STADTDENKEREI, offering cities and municipalities unconventional, playful strategies for communicating architectural culture. She develops educational concepts for children and adolescents, researches architectural education, and has made a name for herself as a non-fiction author in the broader public (The Art of Building Sins (Dumont 2020), Eccentric Homes (Dumont 2021), Just a Facade? (Dumont 2018)).

Turit Fröbe has an immense passion for everything related to architecture and urban planning. She is interested not only in the outstanding and unique but has also developed a fondness for the cumbersome and uncomfortable. She seizes every opportunity to encourage a "loving look" at the built environment, particularly the familiar everyday architecture.

Speaker: Turit Fröbe

Public: for Teachers (primary and secondary education)

Language: German

Time: 09:30 am – 12:30 pm

Free of charge | Subject to availability | Booking required via Ifen.lu.