NERINGA FOREST CLASSROOM LOCATION AT JUODKRANTĖ DENDROLOGICAL TRAIL

NERINGA FOREST CLASSROOM

Neringa Forest Architecture collective, in collaboration with the Neringa Municipality Educational Cluster, the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts, the Curonian Spit National Park, and the Old Growth Forest Foundation, is conducting an educational program at the Neringa Forest Classroom built in Juodkrantė’s old‑growth forest near the dendrological path. It is continuation of the Children’s Forest Pavilion, which represented Lithuania at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Constructed entirely from Curonian Spit timber, the pavilion was conceived as an educational playscape, with the intent of relocating it to the Neringa forests as a publicly accessible installation. The classroom serves as a site for ecological and cultural education, welcoming all who wish to explore and learn from the surrounding forest landscape.

MORE ABOUT THE NERINGA FOREST CLASSROOM

FOREST CONTINUUM WORKBOOK

Forest Continuum Workbook is composed of multilayered stories, workshops, and activities created in collaboration with local children in the Kainuu area of Finland. It has grown from a series of workshops held by members of the Mustarinda Association in the notably large but threatened areas of old-growth forest in the northern boreal zone. In the workbook you can read about the forest, its ecosystem and communities, and explore your own environments through the multisensory activities within.

The publication is available as PDF here

THE FOREST WORKSHOPS
Film by Mustarinda Association and Neringa Forest Architecture
Workshops with children at Paljakanvaara Forest, Finland and Neringa Forest, Lithuania
Text and narration: Riitta (Nyyskä) Nykänen
2023

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Educators: Aistė Ambrazevičiūtė, Aurelija Pluke and Vilma Gudynienė (Sengirės Fondas), Gvidas Laukaitis (Curonian Spit National Park), Riita (Nyyskä) Nykänen (Mustarinda Association)  
Curators: Jurga Daubaraitė, Egija Inzule, Jonas Žukauskas
Educational programme coordinator: Dovilė Lapinskaitė

Neringa Forest Classroom architecture: Jonas Žukauskas in collaboration with Antanas Gerlikas, Jurgis Paškevičius, Anton Shramkov

Produced and created by: Neringa Forest Architecture
Implemented by: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts

Partners: Curonian Spit National Park, Lithuanian National Forestry, Mustarinda Association, Neringa Gymnasium, Neringa Municipality, Sengires Fondas

Project financed by: Lithuanian Council For Culture, Neringa Municipality