Junior Open House Festival 2012: London’s first-ever free architectural festival for children

Junior Open House Festival is our city’s first ever free and inspiring children’s architecture festival. The two day festival will turn young people into detectives of architecture – Architectives! by exploring great architecture in the City of London’s Square Mile. The festival is packed with activities, tours and workshops in iconic buildings and public spaces, from Legobusier to Kite Clubs, Scooter Trails to Spacemakers!

The programme includes:
* City of a Thousand Architects – Build a GIANT model city!
* On your Scooter Trail! – Time to whiz around the city!
* Square Mile Kite Club – Take to the sky with your model archi-kites!
* Legocorbusier Workshop – Modern architecture materclass with Lego!
* Toddle in the City – A photographic treasure hunt for ages 2-7
* Be an Archi-tecive – Discovery trail of City of London
* SpaceMakers – A roll the dice monopoly game
* Design your Dome – Building a Geodesic dome
* Birds Eye Building – At Broadgate Tower, a cityscape workshop
* String-Scape – Using only string to create a 3D City!
* Archi-lens and Art Frames – Structural installations of Artworks
* Hatwalk – Turning architecture on it’s head!
* Shaping Sound – Creating sound using buildings as instrument

Architects, engineers, students and city workers will run these fabulous activities and help us discover the public spaces and built environment all around, where we live, work and play each day!