LABforKids is an initiative of K'werk Zug and Bauforum Zug for building culture education formats for schools and educational organisations. Within the framework of action and competence-oriented teaching, young people, especially children and adolescents, are to be picked up in their living environment and motivated to form their own opinion on the built environment and to actively participate in shaping it. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, LABforKids promotes both their creative abilities and their reflection on their own actions with regard to ethical values and sustainability issues. LABforKids thus also promotes an understanding of multicultural ways of life and at the same time creates identity for one's own living space.
Giving pupils a basic knowledge of building culture has been one of the federal since the «Building Culture Strategy» (2020) at the latest. The conscious dealing with building culture presupposes basic knowledge. What could teaching at the various look like in concrete terms at the various school levels? In collaboration with the Pädagogische University of Schwyz, a teaching dossier has been produced which provides some answers to this question.