PLAYFUL CITY:
THE SCHOOL OF ARCITECTURE (EE)

installation programme

PLAYFUL CITY / August 13-17

With the theme "The City of Play", the 2025 festival invites you to discover the playful side of the urban environment. Play isn’t only for children – it’s a vital part of adult life too, nourishing our bodies, minds, and human relationships. Play in urban space brings freshness to routine, encourages spontaneous encounters, and sparks creativity. Eight artists and collectives from Estonia and beyond will create installations inspired by the theme "Playful City", spread throughout the town.

photo: Luisa Greta Vilo

The School of Architecture (EE)

FIND YOUR GAME!

Location: in front of Kastani 42

August 13, 15.00-20.00

August 14-17, 12.00-20.00

Find Your Game! was developed as part of the Architecture School’s urban camp. Instructors and students aged 12-16 worked together to create a space without a fixed purpose – an open canvas for inventing your own meanings and uses, encouraging imagination and play. How can playful interventions influence our relationship with urban space? We invite you to engage with one another creatively and to collaborate in shaping a one-of-a-kind urban environment.

Participants: MARKUS ANSON, GUSTAV HIRSCHON, MARIE HENDRIKSON, LIISA KIIL, KAUR KÄÄPA, KRISTJAN SIIM LAAS, HELENA LUIKMÄE, KASPAR OJA, AAPO PÕDER, SALME SAAG, JULIUS SALUM, TANIEL SALUM.

Instructors: KRISTIN LEIS, KERLI IRBO, LIIS UUSTAL
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The School of Architecture is a school for space magicians who learn how to create, look at and experience the environment around us with a fresh approach. After graduating from the School of Architecture a tree is no longer just a tree, or a corridor simply a corridor. The environment and the different objects in it acquire a new meaning for the pupils who experiment with the space and experience it through different projects.

The School of Architecture Tartu department is run by landscape architects Kristin Leis (b. 1991), Kerli Irbo (b. 1984) and architect Liis Uustal (b. 1991).

The School of Architecture webpage

Project partner is Aparaaditehas and installation is made with the help of Cramo.

photo: Heikki Leis