AN INVITATION SENT WITHIN THE NORDIC AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS OF CHILDRENS LANDSCAPE - NORWAY

Focus will be put upon: 1) Schoolyards and parks with interesting play- and sportsactivities 2) Adventure playgrounds and specially equipped playgrounds for handicapped children

Target groups are: 1) school leaders 2) landscape architects 3) architects 5) artists working with school projects 5) park- and outdoor-planners in the community 6) sports- and athletic consultants in the communities

In Berlin there are 1000 schools ! The organisation Grün Macht Schule has already made a tremendous consulting and inspiring work to more than 400 hundreds of the schools in Berlin. Our guides and advicers will be Georg Coenen, Oliver Ginsberg and Hartmuth Meyer-Buck.

Georg Coenen is one of the most important "motors" of the organisation Grün Macht Schule.

Grün Macht Schule:
http://www.gruen-macht-schule.de/
http://www.gruen-macht-schule.de/troja/trojaindex.html

Oliver Ginsberg has made a great job to grow further the ideas behind the adventure playgrounds and city-farm projects in Berlin.

Oliver Ginsberg:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Oliver+Ginsberg+farm+project
http://www.cityfarmer.org/germanCfarms.html#germanCF
http://www.bdja.org/oli/

Hartmuth Meyer-Buck is working in the Kulturministerkonferenz as researcher and architekt and has together with others, among them architekt Jürgen Koch, made a lot of very important and inspiring books and reports on school-planning and small neighbourhood sportsplaces for all ages.

We will try to arrange a meeting with the artist Anne Ochmann who has made several beautiful "Wasser-Spiel-Kunst" projects together with children in schools.
http://www.anneochmann.de/

The stay in Berlin will also give you time and good opportunities to visit other places and focus more on your special interests on the last day of the studytrip. More details will be sent you as soon as you mark interest by giving feedback to this preliminary information.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

1) June 1: Visiting 5 schoolsites. Guide Georg Coenen, Grün Macht Schule. Gathering and information about their work with schoolgrounds in Berlin at their office.

2) June 2: Schoolyards with special sport equipments, site for handicapped children, interesting parkelements. Guide: Hartmuth Meyer-Buck, KMK Kulturministerkonferenz

3) June 3: Visits to 2 adventure playgrounds and 3 parks. We shall all go with bicycles and travel through green areas.

4) June 4: We will suggest some alternative tours, but this will be on your own terms, and stays outside the main program.
Free cultural program, or following up special interests with some help in advance.

Entry prize: N.kr. 2500.- must be paid by registration. The account-number will be given you, when confirming your interest. Total prize: N.kr. 4000.- covers administration, guidings and bustrips and bike hiring in Berlin.

Travel (T/R) expencies, hotel and accomodation will come in addition. The participants must themselves organise the travelling T/R Berlin. There are very cheap flight tickets from Scandinavia to Berlin nowadays.
We will arrange common bustrips in Berlin with local and very competent german guides. English will be the main language. We will have a good translator with us on all the bustrips and visits around.

It will be necessary with 4 overnights at the hotel.
It will also be possible to get a flight back home late friday evening, of course, but I do not recommend it, since we will have a social gathering and a common party on friday evening, and there are a lot to discover in Berlin on saturday.

We want to use Hotel Junckers. We had very good experiences here from our first studytrip to Berlin in 2002.

Hotel Junckers, Grünberger Strasse 2, 10243 Berlin
www.junckers-hotel.de
Tel: 0049 30 2933550
Fax: 0049 30 29335555
e-mail: info@junckers-hotel.de

Juncker's Hotel Garni is located in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, a popular neighbourhood in downtown Berlin.

Hotel prizes follow under here.
I expect most of the participant prefer single rooms.

Hotel Prizes:

single room (shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock)
for 59,00 €/night
double room (shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock)
for 73,00 €/night
3 bed room(shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock)
for 93,00 €/night
4 bed room(shower/WC, TV, phone and radio alarm clock)
for 112,00 €/night

Breakfast costs 6,00 € per day, if you would like to take it.