Kids’ City: Family exhibition on architecture at children’s scale
Exhibition
Feb 7, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021
Kids’ City in 2020 invited families into a sensory universe showing how architecture can make city life healthier and more fun—through scale, light, materials, play and cycling culture.
A city for kids is a city for everyone!
Small in a big city
The city can seem huge when you are small. In the exhibition you could see how Danish studio Cobe had designed a kindergarten in child-scale with 11 small houses that created a small village within the city. You could feel what scale really means when you play with micro and macro furniture.
Photo: Kontraframe 
Photo: Kontraframe
City lights
Have you ever thought about how lighting, scale and materials can create different moods in architecture? Imagine an urban space lit up by bright streetlights or a park with soft sunlight between the trees or what about a dark alley. What kind of emotions do you get?
You could experiment with light in the installation City Lights.
Photo: Kontraframe
Photo: Adam Mørk Fun City
How can we have even more fun together in the city? In the exhibition you could see some of the best examples on architecture made for play and togetherness. You could use your own body when you climbed a miniature version of KU.BE or turned the world upside down in a tilted house. You could also build the coolest city with your friends in Minecraft.
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Photo: 3XN Healthy city
In 2025 BørneRiget will be finished right besides Rigshospitalet. Made by Danish studio 3XN in collaboration with Arkitema, with the vision to make nothing less than the worlds best hospital for children and families. With room for play and room for turning difficult situations into positive and safe experiences.
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Photo: Rasmus Hjortshøj, COAST Bicycle city
Copenhagen is the undisputed bicycle capitol og world! Everone ride bikes. Even 5-6year olds ride their bikes across the city. How cool is that?! We even have bridges specially designed for bikes. In the exhibition you could crawl into a bicycle tube and see the bike bridges in the city.
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What was Kids’ City?
Kids’ City was a family exhibition at DAC showing how good architecture can make city life healthier and more fun, with a focus on the city at children’s scale.
When did Kids’ City take place?
The exhibition ran from 7 Feb 2020 to 3 Jan 2021.
What does “A city for children is a city for everyone” mean?
It is presented as a core message: solutions that work for children can improve the city for everyone.
What could visitors experience about scale, light and materials?
The exhibition let visitors feel “scale” through mini and maxi furniture and raised questions about how light, scale and materials create different atmospheres in architecture.
Which concrete activities and examples are mentioned?
An upside-down house, a mini version of KU.BE, building a city in Minecraft, and crawling into a “bike snake” to spot cycle bridges in the city.
What should I know if I only read one thing?
Kids’ City (7 Feb 2020–3 Jan 2021) was a sensory family exhibition using play and real city examples to explain architecture at children’s scale.
This exhibition is developed by Danish Architecture Center
Parts of the exhibition is developed and made available by Utzon Center as part of the exhibition Space Crazy.