Growing Up Green
Stavanger 2008
children, motion and nature
Stavanger, Norway was the European capital of culture of 2008.
Kongeparken, an amusement park in Stavanger, as a program of Stavanger 2008, organized a student Landscape Architecture contest “Growing Up Green”. The contest invited students from all European collages and universities to participate. The Contest was sponsored through ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools).
The aim of the project was to illustrate how we can use nature, based on the philosophy about sustainable development, and to create experiences witch focus on children, motion and nature. The experience will be developed and built for children with children in the role of explorer.
The task was to create an installation for children witch will satisfy this aim. The installations were not only projected but the four wining student teams worked for a month to realize their project in Kongeparken. The project has potential to influence the landscape of Kongeparken for many years.
One of four wining teams was the team “Coccinellidae” consisted of four students of the Faculty of Forestry, department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, University of Belgrade:
Mitrović Marija, Mihajlović Jovana, Romić Dragana and Mirčetić Radmila.
Their project “Insectville” was one of four best ones and was realized by the team in May-June 2008.
The project was inspired by the life and architecture of ants and termites and is consisted of an Ant Hill and a Termite Mound witch are connected through concrete pipes witch imitate the system of tunnels. The mounds were designed to resemble the insect architecture. The exterior is interesting for climbing and sliding and the interior offers games witch try to illustrate lives of ants and termites. The installation is made to give children a chance to put them selves in a role of an ant or a termite and through play to learn about sustainability and togetherness from the amazing societies of these insects.

- English Title : Insectville
- University : University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry, RS
- Project was done for Course Unit : Pejzazno projektovanje 2 ( Landscape Design 2 )
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- Academic Year : 2007 / 08
- City : Belgrade
- Project Language : Serbian
- Supervisor : Ljiljana Vujkovic, Dragan Vujicic
- Image Title : Insectville