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Long-Term Courses

Come and join Arkki’s exciting long-term courses!

Designed to nurture creativity, higher order thinking skills, resilience and other essential 21st century skills through architecture and design projects, Arkki’s weekly courses are also crafted to integrate the learning and application of S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics), Humanities and Social Science subjects.

The award-winning Arkki program offers an extensive, long-term curriculum based on architecture and design. The program targets children and youth ages 7-19.

The hands-on, project-based curriculum are carefully designed to equip the children and youth with lifelong skills including creativity, complex problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication and resilience.
The entire Arkki curriculum includes 30 back-to-back modules with 300 progressive projects, enabling children and youth to create and develop their creativity over a total of 1,500 hours. Each project is a unique, intriguing and playful experiment in which the students apply design thinking and integrate S.T.E.A.M and other subject knowledge to complete. Working with diverse tools and materials, they build up their “creativity vocabulary” and “maker mindset”.
Design, create and innovate through hands-on architecture and design activities!
Play & Create

Play & Create gives the youngest pupils opportunities to make discoveries about the surrounding world through fun learning and play. The development level of this age group provides a fertile ground for learning through activities that ignite the pupils natural curiosity.

The projects are designed to support the internal ability to learn through courageous testing and playfulness. The pupils learn about the very basics of our visual environment; colors, light and shape. 

Program let’s discovery happen through processes that are designed to be fun and exciting. The experience for the learner is that their opinions, interpretations and creations have value. The outcomes are many and each one of them is just as valuable as the next!

Two Arkki pupils working on a project together.
The Explorers

The Explorers (7-9 years old) introduces the foundational elements of architecture and the process of creative and critical thinking.

Through ideating, planning and finally translating their ideas into 3D models and designs, the pupils will jumpstart their imagination and prove their assumptions by experimenting and testing their ideas — no matter how unusual they may sound.
The pupils will acquire better sensing of their surroundings from colors, shapes to structures and space from projects including the tower construction, temple façade design, shadow puppet show and many more! Critical thinking skills develop here as the pupils review alternative theories and find different perspectives to problems. The pupils are guided to observe the surroundings and use different senses.
At the end of the course, students will bring their models home after each project and add to their collection!
Arkki pupils building a stone castle scale model.
The Experimenters

The Experimenters (10-12 years old) offers a rich set of exciting and challenging architecture projects that examine design and technology from different viewpoints. The holistic activities encourage the practice of higher order thinking skills (HOT) and study subjects such as math, history, geography and biology. The concept of sustainable development will be introduced in these modules.

The pupils will dive into the world of architecture and design through studying objects, materials as well as larger entities. From creating a marble track tower to optical illusions and nature-inspired designs, the students will learn various techniques of design, creative thinking and building with different model materials and tools.
At the end of the course, students will bring their models home after each project and add to their collection!
Arkki pupils posing for a pfoto around a table with miniature tower models.
The Creators

The Creators (12-14 years old) focus on enhancing the pupils skills in for example design thinking, project management, co-operation and presentation.

Pupils are encouraged and guided to set goals and assess their own learning process and objectives which will form a solid foundation for self-assessment capacity and responsible self-development.

Architectural phenomena such as organic forms, ecological building, form and function, shape, mass and proportion are studied through real-world phenomenon making the learning experience more tangible and effective. 

Emphasis is on sustainability and paying attention to the ecological, cultural, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Visual art, design and architecture projects and understanding historical and cultural viewpoints lay a foundation for pupils’ local and global agency. 

Arkki pupils working on a truss bridge model.

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