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ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY FESTIVAL
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FAMILY PROGRAMS
Don’t miss these programs specifically designed for families! Budding designers and curious kids are invited to explore the built environment through these specialized programs. Please check individual listings for the appropriate age range before registering and note that parents must accompany children to all events.
|  | 2010 Kids’ Digital Design Contest
Register at: www.masonkirby.com/contest.
Registration Deadline: August 15
Registration Fee: $10 Proceeds donated to the San Francisco Food Bank
Submission Deadline: September 15
Winners Announced: September 22
Age-based judging ensures fair competition and lots of cool prizes.
| | | The Second Annual Kids’ Digital Design Contest is a digital ideas competition that welcomes parents and their children (ages 0-15) to explore “Urban Metabolism” right in their own backyard. The entire footprint of the abandoned 1903 Santa Fe Railway serves as this year’s site and participants are asked to develop plans and proposals for this railway vestige that cuts diagonally across the rational “street and building” fabric of the city and burrows deep into Potrero Hill only to surface again at Cesar Chavez and Highway 280. | 
Kids' Digital Contest © Mason Kirby | |
| | All things big and loud:
Public Transit in kids eyes
NEW DATE! September 18, 11:00 am
$10 General Admission per family
Starting point: Ferry Building, One Ferry Building, San Francisco
Recommended for children ages 5 and up; Kids must be accompanied by an adult.
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Wind Portal, SFO Bart © Ned Kahn | This program aims to bring kids and parents together to express love for Bay Area public transit in the form of models, drawings and poetry. Kids can express their views on moving objects that are usually big and loud: like busses, trains, trolleys, airplanes, boats, etc. These are things that connect them to the city, it’s buildings and people. These things carry their loved ones everyday from home to work and back. The view of the urban environment is very different from the moving frame, when the kids are riding public transit, and this program attempts to capture the emotion felt by their young minds. |
| | iSpy Architecture: Photo Scavenger Hunt
NEW DATE! September 25, 11:00 am
$10 General Admission per family
Starting point: Zeum, 221 4th Steet, San Francisco
Recommended for children ages 6 and up; Kids must be accompanied by an adult.
| | | This interactive event allows families to participate in a visual scavenger hunt together! Each family will be provided with a list of architectural spaces or landscape elements to photograph within a one hour period. The photos will later be shared and posted on a common photo site, such as flickr. Each family will need to supply their own digital or disposable cameras in order to participate. |
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