Levels 4–10
What is biophilic design and how do architects use it to promote health & wellness?
How can non-human builders and everyday things help us to reimagine built spaces?
Join architect and founder of Architecture for Kids School, Louise O’Brien, in the NGV Learn Studios for a dynamic workshop of architecture challenges involving unusual starting points, experimentation, rapid prototyping, creative thinking and imaginative problem solving to discover how architecture really is everything.
Learning Objectives
- Identify and discuss sources of inspiration for architecture
- Describe the relationship between the built environment, people and the landscape
- Define biophilia and how it might be used in architecture to impact health & wellness
- Explore and identify the characteristics and possibilities of different spatial forms
- Synthesise information from different sources and use lateral thinking techniques to draw parallels and create original proposals and artefacts
- Communicate design inspiration, ideas and solutions
Speaker: Louise O’Brien
Louise O’Brien is a highly regarded and successful architect with more than twenty years’ experience in multiple sectors both locally and internationally. She is founder of Apsara Collective – a residential and building and interior architecture studio. O’Brien is passionate about design and the opportunities it provides to inspire and empower young people. She lectures at a tertiary level and runs the ‘Architecture for Kids’ school based in Sydney.
This program is part of Creative Catalyst, a program for high ability students attending Victorian Government schools.
