Dudley Park Primary School students designed and built the buildings of the future for Canberra without leaving Mandurah during the opening of the new Brick by Brick: Build your own capital exhibition at Mandurah Library on Thursday.
The initiative was created by the National Capital Authority (NCA) and aims to bring Canberra closer to students all over Australia and encourage younger generations to visit the nation’s capital.
Brick to Brick is a completely interactive hands-on exhibition in which children and adults can imagine and build with more than 30,000 LEGO bricks the buildings they would like to see in Canberra in the future.
NCA member David Richardson said Canberra is for all the Australians and everyone can have a say in the future of the capital city.
NCA Outreach and Education Officer Roslyn Hull said children and their families are encouraged to be creative building new institutions or by replicating existing buildings.
“As part of this education program, children and their families are asked to think about their future and their capital’s future, to explore what they would want to see in the Canberra of tomorrow,” she said.
During the opening of the exhibition students from Dudley Park Primary School had the opportunity to learn more about Canberra through short speeches and a movie as well as getting their hands on the bricks to design and build their own creations.
City of Mandurah Cr Jane Field gave the inaugural speech in which she remarked the importance of learning through playing and encouraged initiatives like this happening in Mandurah.
The exhibition is open to children over the age of four and will be available at the Mandurah Library until August 21.
Afterwards, the exhibition will slowly travel its way up north through several other towns until it reaches Broome.