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The project in previous Charas PS 64 building is an Innovation Hub preparing future generations for the Information Age, with programming that contains both science and humanity (specifically to the Charas historical context, technology and art), where kids and teens can actually build and create practically something tangible with their own hands beyond merely virtually on the computer. This includes the movable parts inside the building, which allow students to assemble and disassemble, facilitating practical, active and hands-on learning.
In addition to fostering innovation and experimental research, the project also emphasizes ecological and community integration. Thus, as a historical response to the urban context of hundreds of secret street gardens, the living walls in the central heart of the building provide insertions of handy experimental apparatus for the biotech laboratories and the subsequent process of production and creativity on the living objects of botany, acting as interfaces of technological and scientific research with ecology, sustainability and community future needs. And above all, being a public interaction concentration in the Charas community, collective urban cultivation and exploration also happen around these green walls, which serves as an activity for public engagement and participation, enhancing their ownership of the PS 64.