Appropriate Approaches – Design & Build in Uganda

Kyaninga Child Development Centre, or KCDC for short, is an organisation based in western Uganda that offers a comprehensive range of services for the therapy and education of children with disabilities. Since 2019, there has been a partnership between KCDC and the Munich-based organisation "Bauen für Orangefarm" with the aim of planning and building a new children's therapy centre together with students. Over the past three years, the initial outline of the planning has been developed in the form of workshops and teaching assignments at TUM and HM. In summer 2022 and spring 2024, the foundation was laid for further work in the form of construction phases with students from Uganda and Germany.

After an initial research phase on structural, ecological, social and cultural issues, the seminar will focus on the planning and implementation of the upcoming work for the continuation of the project. The aim of the seminar is to continue the planning for the next building sections of the children's therapy center, with a prospective next construction phase in spring 2026.

The guiding principle of the seminar is “Appropriate Approaches”. Therefore, the seminar will not only deal with structural topics such as the appropriate selection and use of building materials, but also with topics such as the social and cultural integration of such student construction projects, ecological sustainability and cultural and knowledge transfer in an international / intercultural context.

The seminar is organised in close cooperation with our local project partners, the clients "KCDC", the Ugandan Martyr University, with whom we will continue to build the project, and our supporting architecture and engineering offices in Uganda.

Bauen für Orangefarm e.V
https://orangefarm-ev.de/

Kyaninga Child Development Centre
https://www.kyaningacdc.org/

First meeting and introduction:
Friday, 10.10.25, 02:00 pm, room N221