Known for award-winning school designs and for leadership in community engagement, the architecture, art and advisory firm Svigals + Partners has announced the expansion of its acclaimed KidsBuild! program, a pioneering community outreach process that educates school children about the design, construction, and maintenance of their own school buildings. Conceived in 1995 to support the rebuilding and expansion of the Edgewood Magnet School, KidsBuild! emerged from a broad-based template for community-based school planning and design developed for the first school in the $2 billion New Haven School Construction Program.
More recently, Svigals+Partners conducted a KidsBuild! program as part of the design and construction of the Engineering & Science University Magnet School (ESUMS), which opened last February. Beginning in 2018, the firm plans to present the KidsBuild! formula and success stories to public, independent, and charter school leaders around the United States.