Third Space Prompt Design a dream “third space.” Each student will design their dream third space for youth and build a physical model. This focuses on belonging, safety, meshing different communities, and inclusion.
Underutilized Space Prompt Re-design an underutilized space into a new public space. This focuses on meshing communities, diversity, and understanding other cultures.
Adaptive Reuse Prompt Design a new life for an unused or under-used industrial or commercial building. This idea focuses on sustainability, reuse, and preservation of buildings. This is a slightly more challenging project than the others.
Home Prompt What does “home” mean to you? Each student will build a model of what the word “home” means to them. All models created come together to create a community at the museum. The focus is on cultural preservation, identity, legacy, and community building.
Exhibition Curation & Design Partners: The Aspen Art Musuem, Madelon Vriesendorp, Charlie Koolhaas Aspen, Fall 2024/Spring 2025
Acetate Chipboard String
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Mobile Makers was invited by the Aspen Art Museum to contribute to their Spring 2025 Youth Expo, an art exhibition showcasing work by K-12 students from the extended Roaring Fork Valley. The theme for the 2025 exhibition was “Architecture and Imagination,” engaging students’ creativity as they re-imagined spaces, buildings, and cities in response to creative prompts with no assigned limits. The curriculum was designed by the Aspen Art Museum education team in collaboration with artist Madelon Vriesendorp; multidisciplinary artist
Charlie Koolhaas; and the Mobile Makers team. Our team produced lesson plans, instructional videos, and workshops that emphasize thinking and exploration. The projects culminated in a wide range of artistic outputs, from drawings and models to design objects and human-scale interactive structures that invite viewers to climb inside or observe.