Stay tuned for Renaissance Kids offerings this summer. Should you want details, please email Mark Moreno
Prof. Moreno Bio â–¸
BIOGRAPHY: Professor Moreno's academic scholarship focuses in several areas, including Placemaking, Person/Environment relationships, kitchen and bath design, creativity, and children’s education. His teaching methodologies emphasize hands-on experiences. He lectures at national and international conferences, and in 2011 he received the Daniel Augsberger Excellence in Teaching Award.
He shares his professional expertise widely within his community, consistently promoting walkability, quality sense of place, and a passion for creative scholarship. For about 12 years, he served on the board of directors and long range planning committee at Curious Kids Museum, Saint Joseph, MI, helping facilitate development of Silver Beach Center, Curious Kids Discovery Zone, Shadowland Ballroom, the Carousel and Whirlpool Field splash pad.
FOUNDING DIRECTOR: RENAISSANCE KIDS Since 2007, and with a passion to teach young people in creative and hands-on projects, Moreno promotes the discipline and impact of Architecture on our lives through the summer architecture camp, Renaissance Kids (SM). In response to the Covid Pandemic, he and his team of college student assistants developed the distance learning version called, Renaissance Kids Household Edition.
Author: Architecture For Kids: Skill Building and Activities.
Co-author: Siena Moreno
EDUCATION: Masters degree in Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 1991 Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington 1985
Camp Activities
Principle Goals: Creativity From Home
tackle activities w/ ideation & design techniques.
learn drawing & model building skills.
look at challenges from varied vantage points.
use our hands & tools as much as possible.
make physical things for more holistic understandings.
work together, critique together, & more!
engage in community services.
Note: Save up on paper scraps like cereal boxes, toilet paper, and paper towel rolls, and any other found objects for constructing models. Students will always be free to creatively interpret projects from their own resources.
Renaissance Kids aspires to make complex ideas accessible to young minds by providing activities and tools for exploring relationships between people and the physical world.
PAst STUDIO PROJECTS
Projects built in the studio for all age groups involve exploring and solving problems by looking from multiple vantage points. We are working together in a loving environment, using tools and a wide array of materials, making drawings and building models with our hands.
Past COMMUNITY BUILD PROJECTS
These projects were all made with the kids hands, and some were designed by kids. all hope to make the world a better place.
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This is a casual conversation on Professor Garth Woodruff’s sweet designerly blog. Fun times.