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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · 4d

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · 4d

🎄✨ Join us for the Soho Kids Christmas Lights Switch-On!
📅 19 Nov | 🕕 6–7PM | 📍 Soho Parish Primary School and Rupert Street
Kids co-designed 6 new light panels exploring identity & Women in Soho.
Support via GoFundMe: gofund.me/1b2ed8e3d

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · 6d

Help Light Up Soho!
Support kids co-designing Christmas lights for Soho’s streets. A joyful, creative project led by Architecture for Kids CIC.
Switch-On: Nov 19 at 6pm
Theme: Lighting, Identity of, and Women in Soho
Donate: gofund.me/8f4ea6323

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · 21d

Met Bridget Phillipson MP today to discuss the Soho Kids Xmas Lights project & the role of children’s agency in shaping the built environment. We touched on STEAM, project-based learning & creating a third space—core themes in my PhD. Thanks to Cllr Patrick Lilley for the invite!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Sep 22

Last week, we ran a curatorial workshop with Tredegarville CiW pupils, starting at National Museum Cardiff exploring collecting, cataloguing & curating. Back at school, they designed their Xmas lights exhibition, considering scale & context. Their ideas will soon brighten Cardiff’s streets!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Sep 22

North Paddington Canalside Festival on 13 Sept, participants of all ages explored wellbeing in public spaces, sketching landmarks, rating comfort, safety, beauty & connection, and creating Canal Codes. A short, improvised session sparked meaningful conversations on health, inclusion & community.

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Sep 22

On 15 Sept, the Building Centre buzzed with ideas at the Reflective Cities, Creative Mindsets Symposium. Honouring Victoria Thornton’s legacy, speakers shared how creativity, collaboration, and inclusive design—from public art to youth co-creation—can shape cities and minds for a better future.

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tomorrow, Sat 30 Aug – don’t miss our new Architecture for Kids Podcast episode! 🎧
A conversation with Dr. Simon F. Johns (Cardiff University) on wellbeing in school curricula & classrooms.

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Aug 28

Young explorers, join Local Investigators – Canalside Edition on 13 Sept in North Paddington between 12.30-3.00pm! Sketch, map & discover personal landmarks along the Grand Union Canal. Ages 13–16. Sign up & see your canal in a whole new way!
🔗https://citylions.org/northpaddhealth/

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Aug 20

Calling all local young explorers! Join Local Investigators – Canalside Edition on Sat 13 Sept (12:30–3pm) in North Paddington. Storytelling, sketching & mapping along the Grand Union Canal for ages 13–16. Sign up & discover your personal landmarks! citylions.org/northpaddhea...

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Aug 14

Recce done for Local Investigators – Canalside Edition (13 Sept, North Paddington Canalside Festival)! 20 local young people (13–15) will walk, sketch, map & reflect on the Grand Union Canal, exploring its link to health & wellbeing.

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Jul 31

Architecture for kIds CIC secured funding for Local Investigators: Canalside Edition on 13 Sept 2025!
Young people will explore how the built environment impacts health & wellbeing, through creativity and design - in collaboration with Sandra Hedblad.
Big thanks to City Lions & the Canalside Grant!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Jul 22

Soho Kids Xmas Lights 2025 is coming! 🎄 Huge thanks to Soho Parish pupils, Frith Street Gallery, Jan Hamlyn & team, Clare Lynch, and David Polidano at the school. A joy co-curating this with such bright young minds. See you at the switch-on Nov 19!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks to everyone who joined our Stories of Personal Landmarks workshop at the end of a very hot Friday afternoon! ☀️ Great chats with architects, teachers, planners & artists on how places connect us — all part of the London Festival of Architecture.

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · May 30

Some of my favorite moments from the Arsenale at the BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2025 – 19TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION – Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · May 25

What makes a place yours?

🧭 The Local Investigators is a creative workshop exploring memory, identity & the built environment. Includes a short walk, open discussion & hands-on making.

📍 WC1E area
🗣️ All voices welcome.
#BuiltEnvironment #Placemaking #LocalStories

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · May 24

The Social Food Space 🍽️ | DP4 Project
Year 1 AD1 students at WSA explored how food shapes social and spatial life in Cardiff.
📸 “Waste to Worth” by Hyeonseung Lee turns food waste into meals, rethinking “waste” and “worth.”
See it at the WSA Summer Show 2025, opening 20 June, 6PM.

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · May 23

The Soho Kids Xmas Lights Jury met at Soho Primary School to choose six winning designs on Lighting, Identity of Place, and Women in Soho. Thanks to all who joined or voted, and to Clare Lynch and Head Teacher Oliver Knight, who highlighted the project’s strong link to the school curriculum.

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · May 1

Year 4 & 5 pupils from Tredegarville CiW joined the CKXL25 workshop, inspired by Elinor Weekley’s career. Themes of lighting, place & women in Cardiff sparked amazing designs. Thanks to all staff, pupils, Kate Martin, Tim Brett & Elinor for their brilliant contributions!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Apr 29

Year 2 & 3 pupils from Tredegarville CiW Primary joined the CKXL25 workshop, designing Christmas lights while exploring lighting, place identity & Women in Cardiff. Thanks to Cllr Sarah Merry, Joshua Brooks, Kate Martin & all staff and pupils for their creativity and enthusiasm!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Apr 20

Architecture for Kids podcast, in collaboration with the Built Environment Trust, Thornton Education Trust & Welsh School of Architecture. Conversations with built environment practitioners & creatives working with children & young people in the UK & beyond. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Apr 20

Now available: @penahay.bsky.social Professor of Imagination at Bath Spa University, on the Architecture for Kids podcast! Explore how School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination are transforming learning through the built environment. Listen now: lnkd.in/eUHZ55C5

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Apr 20

Fifteen people were murdered, and only one person will be fired as a result—it’s beyond unfair; it’s scandalous!

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Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Apr 18

Honoured to receive an award from the Lord Mayor of Westminster at the 2025 Westminster Community Awards for my contribution to Arts & Culture. Grateful to all who nominated me—and to the amazing Soho Parish primary School pupils and community, and Xmas Lights sponsors and supporters. Thank you!

Antonio Capelao @antcapelao.bsky.social · Apr 18

For the 2025 Soho Kids Xmas Lights design workshops, we worked with Y3 and Y4 pupils who began their studies before I founded the project in 2021. Thanks to Clare Lynch for her inspiring site talk, Women in Soho, and to RIBA Learning and Soho Parish Primary for supporting our 5th annual edition!

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