100 Objects from Century of the Child

Frankie Faruzza. Cover of the book Children and the City, by Olga Adams. 1952 Adams, one of the best-known kindergarten teachers in the United States in the 1950s, initiated a classroom project called “Our City” at the Laboratory School in Chicago to stimulate children’s appreciation of how cities worked. Following extensive discussion about how they interacted with and understood the city, the pupils imagined a model town, and then went on to develop their ideas into a cardboard community that they governed themselves. Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

Frankie Faruzza. Cover of the book Children and the City, by Olga Adams. 1952

Adams, one of the best-known kindergarten teachers in the United States in the 1950s, initiated a classroom project called “Our City” at the Laboratory School in Chicago to stimulate children’s appreciation of how cities worked. Following extensive discussion about how they interacted with and understood the city, the pupils imagined a model town, and then went on to develop their ideas into a cardboard community that they governed themselves.

Learn more at MoMA.org/centuryofthechild

09/19/12
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Get your daily dose of design from the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000. During each of the 100 days of the exhibition we will showcase an object featured in the show.

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