Do you feel your children are aware of the city they live in? Is traveling between school, restaurants and a friend’s home everything they see?

Thanks to the pedagogic and didactic expertise of its team Shanghai Flaneur designs and offers special city excursions for children, teenagers and students. Depending on the target, educational programs can be more academic and rich in content, or more fun-oriented and ‘edutaining’.

We currently offer the following kids walks:

Shanghai for Teenagers – My City and Me – A photographic workshop: We will take your children on a stroll through the neighborhood of Luxun Park and stimulate the discovery of often amazing things surrounding us. Equipped with a digital camera and under professional guidance of photographer Yolanda vom Hagen, every child will learn in a playful way how to capture interesting moments and learn about their different perceptions. This walk will open eyes to the “little things” of the everyday life in Shanghai and through guiding questions like for example:

“Take a picture of something you really like, you really don’t like, you think is strange, you have never seen before, which is very old or very new or something just existing in China etc”.

Another option is the Quizz-Walk created by architect Fanny Hoffmann-Loss and photographer Jan Siefke. It leads through the former French Concession and is based on a nicely designed photo-booklet with guiding questions. This three hour interactive walk is also a very suitable and fun-based team-building activity. It was first designed for an exchange project of French and German School students, with the idea that the kids learn something about their current common hometown while also having fun together.

A third option is an interactive walk through the former Jewish Ghetto area of Shanghai, this is also guided by Fanny Hoffmann-Loss, who as an architect student has once designed a "Jewish Center for Shanghai". The material and methodology we use is based on a “Children’s University”- project on the topic of Cultural Memory that SHANGHAI FLANEUR designed and organized for the German Academic Exchange Program. Learn more