This information is from 2019. Check out the Family Fun Calgary Summer Camp Guide.

Is your child more interested in the design of the playground than going down the slide? Do they wonder how skyscrapers are built or why different neighbourhoods are designed in different ways? Congratulations! Sounds like you may have a future architect, planner or landscape architect on your hands!

Enrol your design enthusiast into a Design Camp — a summer camp run by the University of Calgary’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape – and they will learn what it takes to design the future of Calgary. One camp will be based out of the School’s new downtown City Building Design Lab just steps away from City Hall, Olympic Plaza and the new Central Public Library and the other at the University Campus.

Campers will have a chance to:

  • See the world through the eyes of architects, planners and landscape architects
  • Develop ideas on how to plan and build cities for the future
  • Visit Calgary’s architectural landmarks like the new central library, Bow Tower and Wonderland, TELUS Sky, CSquare, Riverwalk and East Village as a global precedent-setting green neighbourhood redevelopment
  • Learn about the fundamental of architecture and experiment with materials by building models – virtually and physically
  • Draw in thin air with a 3D pen
  • . . . and more!

Design Camp downtown dates:

Grades 2 – 4: July 8–12
Grades 5 – 7: July 15–19
Grades 8 – 10: July 22–26

 

Other design camps, with more dates, will be running at the University of Calgary campus. Camps at the University location offer the option of before and after-care or boxed lunches for a fee.

U of C Campus:

Grades 2 – 4:
July 8 – 12, 2019
July 15 – 19, 2019
July 22 – 26, 2019
July 29 – August 2, 2019
August 6 – 9, 2019
August 12 – 16, 2019

Grades 5 – 7:
July 8 – 12, 2019
July 15 – 19, 2019
July 22 -26, 2019
July 29 – August 2, 2019:
August 6 – 9, 2019
August 12 – 16, 2019

The Design Camps are for students who will be entering grades 2 – 10 in the fall. Camps run from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm and run weekly during the summer, beginning on July 8, 2019, with the last week starting on August 12, 2019.

Register now at www.ucalgary.ca for a week of designing and thinking creatively!

 

University of Calgary Summer Design Camps:

When: Weekly, starting July 8 – August 12, 2019
Where: EVDS Downtown Lab: 616 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, AB
University of Calgary (Meet in Gold Gym on 1st day): Kinesiology Complex, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB
Time: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Website: www.ucalgary.ca