Ages 6–7 · Saturdays 10:00
Shape Scouts
Notice the geometry hiding in traffic signs, buns, buttons and playgrounds. Then invent a better version.
Design school for curious hands
Make a
world
from three
shapes.
At Werkraum, children turn ordinary circles, squares and triangles into stories worth walking around in. We draw, cut, build and test ideas every Saturday in our bright yellow studio.
Scroll to put the pieces together
01Loose parts
Scatter · discover · compose · repeat
Small groups, substantial ideas
A table for every kind of maker.
We keep each studio to twelve children, with two working designers in the room. The projects are deliberately open enough for a quiet observer, a relentless inventor and the child who wants to make a very fast cardboard dog.
Ages 8–9 · Saturdays 12:30
Build Lab
Make useful things at human scale: stools, shadow theatres, signs for imagined cities and tiny rooms for beetles.
Ages 10–12 · Wednesdays 16:30
Picture Machine
Use print, collage and a simple camera to turn a point of view into a poster people cannot miss.
School holidays · 3-day studios
Big Works
A proper project with a public showing: this autumn, a neighbourhood museum designed entirely by children.
The Werkraum kit
Tools that invite a second try.
Nothing precious, nothing pre-decided. The material tells us what it wants to become after the first attempt.
Paper that holds a fold
Big sheets, good colours, blunt scissors and the confidence to cut the first line.
Wood offcuts
For prototypes with a satisfying knock.
Ink, rollers & giant type
Letters are architecture for a thought.
Colour light
See what happens when blue meets yellow on a wall.
Questions pinned to the wall
“Could it be lighter?” is a tool too.
Room to make a mess
The useful kind.
A five-minute workbench
Give the pieces another job.
At the start of a workshop, one circle might be a bulb, a wheel or the moon in a small paper play. Pick a prompt and give the same tray of forms another job.
No wrong start. Clear the table whenever the first idea has done its work.
Werkraum workbench / eight pieces
Choose a prompt
A lamp: shade, stem, switch and one hopeful red book.
Come in, look around
The door is blue.
Families are welcome at our open studio on the first Saturday of every month. Bring a half-formed idea, a question or simply a child who likes to make things.
open studio
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Next open studio
Saturday
7 September
10–13
Find us
Markveien 35
0554 Oslo
Bring
A grown-up, indoor shoes, and a willingness to leave with paint under your nails.