Workshops - Arkki Singapore

Workshops

Lego Tower Workshop
Team up to build the world’s highest LEGO® tower!

This playful workshop, which emphasizes 3D structural thinking and motor skills, encourages teamwork and active cooperation through enjoyable constructional challenges. The whole group can work together to build the world´s highest LEGO® tower’ ‑ a unique building constructed according to the targets set by the members of the group and as facilitated by the teacher. This stimulating task encourages social interaction and develops the participants’ teamwork skills in an entertaining and inspiring way. The contribution made by each member of the team is an individual, but essential, part of the whole.

The workshop includes an inspirational lecture in which the participants get to know about high-rise buildings and modern skyscrapers. This is a task in which you can only succeed, but it nevertheless provides challenges and emphasizes the importance of prototyping and testing new ideas.
Sweet Architecture Workshop
In this workshop, the idea is to provide knowledge about structures and architecture in a fun way. Since architecture is a spatial form of art, it is crucial to study it three-dimensionally, and involving all the senses in the learning process. One of the famous 3D working methods for studying structures in architecture is a concept called Sweet Architecture. It has been proven to be very effective in learning to understand the structures of buildings.

In Arkki’s Sweet Architecture workshop, participants can make structural discoveries by themselves and learn by experimenting, instead of being given ready-made answers. In architecture and design there rarely are “right” answers, but instead dozens of possible solutions to each given design task. This workshop Can be run for a flexible duration, from 90 minutes to a full weekend non-stop come-and-go session. The workshops are well suited also as birthday party activities or as mega workshops in different events.

Lego Tower Workshop

Sweet Architecture Workshop

Workshops for professionals and corporations include:

CREATIVE AND DESIGN THINKING

When 65% of future jobs are still unknown, the ability to create, engage, participate, and innovate is crucial. Creativity is typically defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas. This applies to all fields of life. Literacy and numeracy are the basis of our society and for creating new meaningful knowledge, but globally we have reached the point where we need to rapidly change the education goals.

TECHNOLOGY FOR EVERYONE

How to develop a powerful skill set through hands-on exploration and working with design, construction, and programming.

THE POWER OF CREATIVITY & CULTIVATING INVENTION LITERACY

New inventions are often the result of the unexpected. Arkki develops skills in design, construction, and programming in a creative context, that gives everyone the chance of feeling the thrill of creation and invention.

“Invention literacy is the ability to read and write human-made stuff, from toasters to apps.”

PROCEDURES & TEACHING METHODS

Stimulating talk, three-dimensional observation, and experiment, three-dimensional construction, modelling, and peer learning.

The essential part of the sessions are play and pleasure. Succeeding leaves a pleasurable memory and encourages us to find out more about the subject by oneself.
Lego Tower Workshop

LEGO Tower Workshop

Team up to build the world’s highest LEGO® tower!

This playful workshop, which emphasizes 3D structural thinking and motor skills, encourages teamwork and active cooperation through enjoyable constructional challenges. The whole group can work together to build the world´s highest LEGO® tower’ ‑ a unique building constructed according to the targets set by the members of the group and as facilitated by the teacher. This stimulating task encourages social interaction and develops the participants’ teamwork skills in an entertaining and inspiring way. The contribution made by each member of the team is an individual, but essential, part of the whole.

The workshop includes an inspirational lecture in which the participants get to know about high-rise buildings and modern skyscrapers. This is a task in which you can only succeed, but it nevertheless provides challenges and emphasizes the importance of prototyping and testing new ideas.
Sweet Architecture Workshop

Sweet Architecture Workshop

In this workshop, the idea is to provide knowledge about structures and architecture in a fun way. Since architecture is a spatial form of art, it is crucial to study it three-dimensionally, and involving all the senses in the learning process. One of the famous 3D working methods for studying structures in architecture is a concept called Sweet Architecture. It has been proven to be very effective in learning to understand the structures of buildings.

In Arkki’s Sweet Architecture workshop, participants can make structural discoveries by themselves and learn by experimenting, instead of being given ready-made answers. In architecture and design there rarely are “right” answers, but instead dozens of possible solutions to each given design task. This workshop Can be run for a flexible duration, from 90 minutes to a full weekend non-stop come-and-go session. The workshops are well suited also as birthday party activities or as mega workshops in different events.