A Free Public Event for Children and Families
In Triangulated Hideout, young makers take on a playful building challenge: transforming simple triangular surfaces into three-dimensional structures that can hold themselves up and claim as much space as possible.
Make it taller. Stretch it wider. Find surprising ways to keep it standing. Can you make enough space to peek through, crawl under—or even get inside?
Working first in small teams and then joining forces, children will experiment, test, tumble, rebuild, and discover their own ways of making structure through play. As individual hideouts begin to connect, the challenge grows: how can separate structures come together and create even more space?
With no single right answer and no final form to copy, every new connection changes what the construction can become.
Developed by archiKID, the workshop brings together architecture, geometry, play, and hands-on collaborative making, inviting children and families to explore space and structure through experimentation and imagination. Designed for all ages (2–99), participants can join the challenge at their own level and contribute to an evolving collective playscape.
How far can your hideout grow? Come build it and find out.
SESSION TIMES
You are welcome to drop in any time between 2PM and 5PM and stay for as long as you like. However it is recommended you come to your allocated time to help with audience size and flow.
PRESENTED BY
Presented by Brisbane Powerhouse and BMD as part of PowerPlay
Brisbane Powerhouse is Queensland’s home for contemporary culture, a magnificent power station of the 1920s reborn as an arts centre on the Brisbane River.
As Brisbane City Council’s premier arts venue, the much-loved building stages more than 1250 performances a year including a program of festivals, as well as hundreds of events and functions from weddings to conferences, all the while housing heritage-listed graffiti, riverside bars and restaurants, visual arts exhibitions and of course the stories of all who have ventured, laughed and shared memories within its living walls.
