Hip Hop Architecture Camp in Portland this Week

This week, a very special week long camp is going on in Portland Oregon for middle school kids. Hip Hop Architecture with Michael Ford is here, and I volunteered Monday and Tuesday and will be back again before the week is over.

“The Hip Hop Architecture Camp™ uses hip hop culture as a catalyst to introduce underrepresented youth to architecture, urban planning and design.“

Attending this camp is free (Autodesk is one of the proud sponsors) and is a fascinating process using hip hop music rhymes to design architecture including building a physical prototype in LEGO bricks and then a digital 3D model using Autodesk Tinkercad. At the end the kids will present their design and inspiration as well as provide a rap video.

Some of the students attending the camp building their design in LEGO bricks.

 
Michael Ford teaching kids how to use Tinkercad.

While there is the word “cad” in the Tinkercad, it is not the standard hard to learn CAD, it is so easy young kids even 7 years old…