The key aim of this pilot project is to get master planning, planning, design and community empowerment into the classroom. The tool for doing is through providing materials, challenges and opportunities for teachers in a way that would be attractive to students, culminating in a competition for the best submissions

Winner - IFGA 2023

The Soho kids Xmas lights project has inclusion at its core. 130 pupils from a local school explored the built environment and the role that lighting can play within through a competition They research local Soho buildings, communities, cultures and traditions to understand the role light plays within each of these elements, and to explore how feelings of identity and a sense of place from the areas inhabited are created.

Finalist - 2022

Gingerbread City Competition. Although this is generally for architects, it is a great way to engage children and young people. Gingerbread buildings, everything from doughy houses, train stations, markets, museums, schools and parks – making up impressive, tiny biscuit cities. Themes are a plenty such as ‘Water in Cities’, with all the sugary buildings designed to be water-sensitive. In addition daily gingerbread house-building workshops can be added to this initiative.