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ArkDes offers two programmes for upper secondary schools: one is an educational programme delivered at the museum on Skeppsholmen, and the other is the digital classroom resource Living Streets, which can be used anywhere in Sweden.

Classroom Resource: Living Streets

With the Living Streets teaching resource, you and your students can explore a street or other nearby public space and consider the question: What could future streets look like if cars weren’t the starting point? The task is to design a prototype for a sustainable, healthy, and vibrant street, inspired by ArkDes’ practice-based research project Street Moves.

The resource includes lecture material, films, step-by-step student assignments, and a teacher’s guide.

The core of the project is design, but subjects such as construction, architecture, history, visual communication, cultural history, Swedish, and CAD can be easily connected. The material has been tested in science, technology, arts, and social science programmes and is adapted to Gy25.

Living Streets is available in three formats: Large, Medium, and Small. In the formats Large and Medium, ArkDes supports you throughout the process. The Small format is a do-it-yourself version. Learn more about the formats and download the material below.

Are you interested in doing Living Streets in the format Large or Medium? Send an email to pedagog@arkdes.se to register your interest.

Don’t miss the Street Moves knowledge bank! This digital resource includes useful information, inspiring examples, and a short film introducing Street Moves.

  • Photo: Daniel McCarthy. 2023. Badhusgatan, Södertälje.
  • The upper secondary school carries out the Living Streets project in a design class and connects it to other subjects such as history, Swedish, chemistry, physics, technology, or others relevant to the design process.
  • ArkDes is available for a digital start-up meeting before the project begins, to answer questions from teachers and school leadership and to align planning.
  • ArkDes leads an introduction to the project and Sweden’s national policy for architecture, design, and craft for teachers, principals, and others.
  • ArkDes leads the project introduction with students.
  • ArkDes participates in the mid-term review and provides feedback.
  • ArkDes takes part in the final presentations.
  • The school carries out the Living Streets project using the provided teaching material.
  • ArkDes is available for a digital start-up meeting before the project begins to answer questions from teachers and school leadership.
  • ArkDes holds a kick-off session for teachers, either online or in person.
  • ArkDes conducts a follow-up and evaluation in the form of a conversation, to continuously develop and improve the material.
  • The upper secondary school is inspired by the Living Streets project and carries out selected parts of the process. Teachers choose which tasks or sequences of tasks to use and incorporate them into existing courses.
  • ArkDes does not take part in the process.

(Only the Large and Medium formats qualify as full Living Streets projects.)

Q/A

No. For the Large option, ArkDes selects two upper secondary schools per year to participate with. ArkDes covers costs for travel, staff, etc. However, ArkDes does not cover costs for carrying out the project within the school. If you are interested please send a e-mail to pedagog@arkdes.se.

Yes, ArkDes selects one school to exhibit in a Take-over in the space “Torget” at ArkDes. The school is responsible for organizing, collecting, and transporting the students’ material to ArkDes. ArkDes makes the final selection of the material that will be displayed for a limited period.

There are no criteria other than being an upper secondary school and the school being located in Sweden.

As a teacher and school, you know your structures best. Incorporating Living Streets into your own activities is the very idea and we welcome you to do so.

School programme: Ideology and Technology in Architectural History

In the school program, we focus on the architectural and urban development history of the 20th century, where a clear connection emerges between technical advancement, materials, ideological currents, as well as aesthetic considerations. We discuss and explore the design process while discovering how creativity can shape tomorrow.

Related to upper secondary school (gymnasium) courses such as Architecture, Design, Construction, Formulation and Technology.

The session “Ideology and Technology in Architectural History” is 2 hours long and includes a workshop.

The program is free of charge. Max 30 pupils per session.

ArkDes reserves the right to charge a no-show fee of 1000 SEK.

  • Water towers in Kuwait. 1967-69. Sune Lindström, Lisa Bauer, and Walter Bauer. Photo: Joe Lindström, 1973. ArkDes collection.