8 - 10 June 2006 Berlin, Germany Study Tour of Schoolyards, Playgrounds & Parks

In 2005, our CEO, Randy White, attended this study tour in Berlin. He was so impressed with it that we have agreed to place this link on our website. See our article about Randy's tour at

www.whitehutchinson.com/news/learnenews/2005_06/article103.shtml


2005 Play Study Tour in Berlin, Germany

An Invitation from Children's Landscape – Norway

Focus on:

  • Schoolyards and parks with interesting play - and sports facilities
  • Some "adventure playgrounds"

Target groups are:

  1. landscape architects
  2. playground designers
  3. architects
  4. park and outdoor planners in the community
  5. sports and athletic consultants in the communities,
  6. school leaders,
  7. artists

In Berlin there are 1000 schools! The organisation Grün Macht Schule has already made a tremendous consulting and inspiring work to more than 400 hundreds of the schools in Berlin. Our guide and adviser will be Georg Coenen. He is one of the most important "motors" of the organisation Grün Macht Schule.

We will try to arrange a meeting with the artist Anne Ochmann, who has made several beautiful "Wasser-Spiel-Kunst" projects together with children in schools.

The stay in Berlin will also give you time and good opportunities to visit other places and focus more on your special interests on the last day of the study trip. More details will be sent you as soon as you mark your interest by giving feedback to this preliminary information.

Preliminary Schedule

1st day: Visiting 5 school sites. Guide Georg Coenen, Grün Macht Schule.

2nd day: Schoolyards with special sport equipments, site for handicapped children, interesting park elements.

3rd day: Visits to 1 adventure playground and 3 parks. We shall all go with bicycles and travel through green areas.

Following weekend days: We will suggest some alternative tours, but this will be on your own terms, and stays outside the main program. Free cultural program, or following up special interests with some help in advance.

Preliminary Program

  1. Brüder-Grimm-Grundschule
  2. Kurt-Tucholsky-Grundschule
  3. Cids in Bewegung (a great project in public area)
  4. Ferdinand-Freiligrath-Oberschule
  5. Break with lunch in Osteria (near Kreuzberg-Park)
  6. After lunch-walk Kreuzberg-Park
  7. Carlotte-Salomon-Grundschule
  8. Three nearby playgrounds in Tempelhof
  9. Britzer Garten
  10. Makunaima with Rainer Warzecha
  11. Guided tour Britzer Garten
  12. Meeting in Green house
    - about the work of Grün Macht Schule.
    - exchange ...
    - open end with chianti
  13. Winterfeldt-Platz/Gleditsch-Par
  14. Sophie-Scholl-Oberschule
  15. Neumark-Grundschule
  16. A playground near Kleistpar
  17. Fläming-Grundschule
  18. Break with lunch
  19. Grundschule an der Bäke,
  20. Biesalski-Schule,
  21. Schweizerhof-Grundschule (with Anne Ochmann) at tuesday.

Bike Trip

Teutoburger Platz - Kollwitzplatz: two neighborhood "pocket parks" one with participatory one with more formal design finishing tour at adventure playground "Kolle 37" which also includes a community center

Mauerpark: People with lots of energy could go on to visit a former wall strip area transformed into park during the last ten years, still unfinished - another children´s farm there as well.

On the way from Kreuzberg to Prenzlauer Berg we will cross Tiergarten, if wanted we could also have a noon break at Potsdamer Platz.

Social Gathering / Party

Friday in the evening a gathering and a party at the studio of an artist

Contact

Frode Svane
Children's Landscape
www.barnas-landskap.org
home.c2i.net/swan

Telephone +47 926 69 969
e-mail: frode.svane@gmail.com

For article and photos from 2005 Study Tour, see
www.whitehutchinson.com/news/learnenews/2005_06.shtml#3

Glimpses from Study Tour Berlin 2002:
www.gruen-macht-schule.de/wf00057.html
www.gruen-macht-schule.de/wf00056.html

Glimpses from Study Tour Berlin 2005:
www.gruen-macht-schule.de/gms2/international/frode.htm

Cost

Entry prize: NOK 2500 (USD 368). - must be paid by registration. The account-number will be given you, when confirming your interest. Total prize: NOK 4600 USD 677). - cover administration, guiding, bus trip and bike hiring in Berlin. Travel (T/R) expenses, hotel and accommodation will come in addition. The participants must themselves organise the travelling T/R Berlin. There are very cheap flight tickets from Scandinavia to Berlin nowadays. We will arrange common bus trips in Berlin with local and very competent German guides. English will be the main language. We will have a good translator with us on all the bus trips and visits around.

It will be necessary with at least 4 overnights at the hotel.

It will also be possible to get a flight back home late on Friday evening, of course, but I do not recommend it, since we will have a social gathering and a common party on Friday evening, and there are a lot to discover in Berlin on Saturday.

We will use Hotel Junckers. We had very good experiences here from our earlier studytrips to Berlin. Hotel Junckers, Grünberger Strasse 2, 10243 Berlin.

Tel: +49 30 2933550
Fax: +49 30 29335555
e-mail: info@junckers-hotel.de

Juncker's Hotel Garni is located in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, a popular neighbourhood in downtown Berlin. Hotel prizes follow under here. I expect that most of the participant prefer single rooms.

Hotel Cost

  • Single room (shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock) for 59,00 €/night
  • Double room (shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock) for 73,00 €/night
  • 3-bed room (shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock) for 93,00 €/night
  • 4-bed room (shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock) for 112,00 €/night

Optional breakfast costs 6,00 €/day.