3, 2, 1, Barneval!

A countdown campaign by Codesign Research Studio to 20 January 2020, the day the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child became Swedish law. Not an exhibition but a year of street actions, school workshops and guerrilla activism, gathering work on children's spatial rights into one public campaign.

It opened on 20 January 2019 with an action on Drottninggatan where the architects wore capes built from their own printed material. Mine was assembled from information cards carrying the articles of the Convention, so the costume was also the handout, and incidentally avoided the permit a stationary stand would have needed.

Alongside it ran the Palla ta plats stool workshop for Kulturnatten, and an action at Almedalen where bicycles carried the line that a fifth of Sweden's population is under eighteen and none of them are consulted about the city.

Codesign Research Studio, cohort 2018/19Rose Hallgren, Architectwith Jelena Mijanović, Hanna Ivansson and Daniella RicciPhotographs and the Palla ta plats illustration by Rose Hallgren

Press: Arkitekten, Arkitekten (debate), ARQ

The Barnevalen carnival parade on its way to Mynttorget
Children and architects parading down Drottninggatan
The parade arriving at the Riksdag
Bicycles at Almedalen carrying the campaign message, with the pink wire figures
The research group at Almedalen: Hanna Ivansson, Jelena Mijanović and Daniella Ricci Saccotelli
Children handling one of the pink wire figures on a Visby square
Palla ta plats!, illustration for the Kulturnatten stool workshop
Pupils at Europaskolan building a stool during the workshop