Program:
Client: Kyiv City Council
Beneficiaries: Mother and children IDPs staying at Ptakha Camp, Bird watchers, Camino Podolico hikers.
Results:
Team: Budmo, Polina, Nataliia, 30 children & parents, 4 saw mill workers, 1 PTSD homeless veteran.
Partners: visio guy, A Development
Financial Support: Kyiv City Council, Bordeaux Metropole.
Material Support: Kyiv Communal Forest, Creative States, National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine.
In September 2024, a collective of young architects and carpenters from France, Ukraine, and Latvia, known as Budmo, collaborated with children in Kyiv to create the vision of a playground that not only reflects their dreams and wishes but also serves as a safe haven where childhood cannot be stolen. The main goal of our project was to give children a sense of belonging and agency in shaping a space that truly belongs to them while also bringing moments of joy and laughter during difficult times. To achieve this, we organized a series of workshops involving children from different districts of Kyiv.
Over two days, they expressed their most incredible ideas through model-making, drawing, and interviews. These ideas became the foundation for the design of a wooden pavilion (located at Trukhaniv Island, Kyiv), which serves as a call to consider children’s needs in designing sustainable spaces.
