A new series of hands-on design workshops for children, young people, and families at Design Vancouver Festival.
Creativity begins with curiosity.
This year, Design Vancouver Festival is introducing Kids + Family Programs, a new series inviting children and families to explore design, architecture, and the built environment through making, storytelling, imagination, and play. With partners including Arts Umbrella, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Vancouver Public Library, the programs encourage young people to observe, experiment, build, and imagine new possibilities.
Bike & Build with Tomo & MGA
Bring your bike, your friends, your kids, or just your kid mindset. Join Natalie Telewiak of MGA for a ride from Strathcona to Stanley Park, followed by a playful team fort-building challenge and a morning of adventure, design, and connection.
Vancouver Art Gallery: The Making Place
Create hanging mobiles inspired by artist B.C. Binning using colour, shape, balance, and movement.
Tombolo: Make-Believe Mall
Tombolo is a pop-up children's art gallery for the young and young at heart. We offer a platform for children to see their art on a big stage and to know that their perspective and voices matter.
Arts Umbrella: Worldbuilding Design Challenge
Young creatives will use the design-thinking process of worldbuilding to imagine, build, and share an alternative future for Vancouver's Granville Island.
DIALOG x Petit Architect: Reuse Railtown
Reimagine Railtown through model-making and explore how neighbourhoods can grow while preserving character and reducing waste.
Pop'up Petit Architect Workshop
Drop into the Office of Mcfarlane Biggar Architects for a free, hands-on architecture and model-making activity for all ages.
Design begins when a child asks how something works, imagines how it could be different, or turns an ordinary material into something new.
Kids + Family Programs introduce design as a tool for creative thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and understanding the world around us.
Make every day creative.