This summer I had the pleasure of joining a group of judges for the Open City's Architecture in Schools initiative. This creative learning programme for primary school pupils aims to inspire the next generation of city-shapers, building an understanding how architecture informs the world around us. I was particularly pleased to be involved this year as the theme was Shared City – opening up the debate beyond architecture of buildings to all the places and spaces between them where we meet and play every day.
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![The making of mobile-kitchen-instrument, Papageno School in Berlin-Mitte. Photo © Joanne Pouzenc](http://www.markoandplacemakers.com/sites/default/files/styles/scale-only-635px/public/joanne_pouzenc_01.jpg?itok=nht4EwTl)
25 November 2013 Unpublished
Why Architecture Should Always Carry Meaning
A few months ago, my friend Taina Guedes, Brazilian food-artist based in Berlin, came to us – Sven Hoehne and myself – asking for a favour: can we build a mobile-kitchen-instrument? Strange question…we know we can build a kitchen. We know we can make it move. We suppose it can make sounds too? So, I answered as an architect would: