MOBILE ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOPSMobile Architecture Workshops is a project initiated and implemented by young people - young architects and architecture students, also involving children and youth from different regions all over Lithuania. The main concept of the project is to create a continuous two-months-length event in the country. Traveling from town to town participants of the project will visit 16 locations and run 3-days long architecture workshops in each targeting local children and young people. Participants of the project, children and young people involved - all together will analyze different physical surroundings, identify problems related to community life and public spaces, find creative original solutions for improvement, and realize ideas while constructing real objects.The project aims:1. To spread the architecture culture and sense of citizenship in regions all over Lithuania;2. To support young people's initiative and encourage them to share their experience, to teach and learn from each other through informal learning processes and methods;3. To encourage children from regions all over the Lithuania to be curious, careful, responsible, creative and active in shaping and improving their nearest surroundings;4. To encourage young people (participants) and children and youth from regions all over the Lithuania to create and evoke their interest in creative activity methods and means;5. To enable the dialogue among different social groups, encourage tolerance and partnership among children, youth and adults - to involve children and youth as equally active members of community and capable to influence local community life and formation of local surroundings.The project will take place from May 2013 till December 2013, including preparation process, implementation of workshops and sharing of results, experiences and achievements. Main activity - mobile architecture workshops - will start in July, when children and young people are free from school for summer holiday. Mobile workshops will last for two months (9 weeks). Participants will stay for 3 days in each location, making 1 day breaks between towns for traveling and setting up in a new place. This activity will end in the beginning of September. From then participants will sum up the results of the project, prepare information and documentary material for active spread of results until December.Participants of the project - young people from 18 to 30 years old. As young architects and architecture students they all share common interest in field of architecture and innovative architecture practices, as well as a sense of common mission to spread architecture culture in society, especially among children and youth. In this project 11 participants will take place, moreover around 20 more young people will be involved in direct activities - running architecture workshops. While implementing the project participants will work on: 1. Preparation activities (looking for commercial and informational supporters, making partnerships with local institutions or communities in towns, research on towns' specifics and contemporary affairs related to physical surrounding and architecture, research of 'instant urbanism' method and practices); 2. Run workshops for children and youth for two months in different regions of Lithuania. Each workshop will include such activities as research, discussion, problems identification, ideas generation (brainstorms), activities planning, construction and realization of the material object; also representation of the solutions and results, discussion and fixation of achievements together with the community.3. Representation and sharing of the results of the whole project: participants will share their experience in the public, prepare the exhibition and publish the publication to sum up the results of the projects.Basic principles and methods:1. Learning by doing - participants as well as target group will learn new things through their own real experience during the workshops;2. Shared and shifting responsibilities - learning from each other, learning by teaching;3. Instant Urbanism - progressive practice and method often applied in Europe and all over the world;4. Promotion of such values as culture, citizenship, personal responsibility, sustainability, ecology, social cohesion.