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Architects design houses and other buildings. Sometimes they design beautiful and exciting dream houses. A dream house is an ideal house of your dreams. Imagine where you would like to live when you are grown up. Maybe you will be married, or maybe not. Now imagine a dream house for you to live in.
 

Your task

Design a dream house for yourself in future. Imagine yourself when you are grown up. Imagine how you will live, will you be married or not? What kind of job will you have? And so forth. Now design your dream house for that time. Think about how your house can let you live a satisfying life. Make a small-scale model of your dream house out of paper or card. Work on this design topic in a small team with a group of your classmates.

Follow the design steps

To design something well, do it step-by-step and use the methods from the Design Thinking for Schools website. There are four design steps. The first step is LEARN. To design something, you must first learn about it. There is much to learn on any topic, and it is always interesting. Learning will help you to understand the thing that you are designing, so you can do a good job. The second step is DRAW. Try to think of as many different ideas as you can while you draw them with pencil on paper. Keep drawing until you have some ideas that you really like. Improve your ideas and combine them into a single excellent idea. Drawing is easy and fun. Enjoy it! The third step is MAKE. Make the thing that you are designing to show your teacher and classmates. You can only tell if your idea works by making it. Improve your idea while you are making it. Making something with your hands is fun too! The fourth step is TRY. Once you have made something, you should try it to see if it works or not. You can also let someone else try it to see what they think. When you try, you will often find ways to improve your design idea. That will make you a better designer.
 

​​​​​​​Note for teachers

Read the guide for teachers on Safety for the MAKE Step for Level II to safely supervise this design task.