Glasgow – Our Urban Playground

Want to come and play?

Monday 28th June- Thursday 8th July 2010

Join young people from Glasgow to take part in FREE workshops running this June and July. We’ll be exploring the potential for urban sports activities in Glasgow and developing design proposals that will be exhibited in the city.

You don’t have to be an expert in architecture or design, but if you have a keen interest in this area these workshops will be perfect for you. We want to work with you and your ideas, so simply bring along yourself and your enthusiasm, the rest we will provide! Lunch & travel expenses will be covered so there’s every reason to join in with our exploration of Glasgow.
The workshops run for a week beginning on Monday 28th June- Thursday 8th July 2010, details below:

Monday 28th June 2010
‘Architecture Inform(s)’ & ‘City Walk, Sporting Talk’

An introduction to the personal and professional aspects of architecture and urban design, and a walking tour through Glasgow using photographs, drawings, sound bites and video.

Tuesday 29th June 2010
‘Winning the Games’

Observing the Commonwealth Games site with the project architect for the new Athletic Village in Glasgow. You’ll learn about Podcasting and will interview the local community.

Wednesday 30th June 2010
‘We Run this City!’

Working with urban sports specialists Parkour Glasgow, we’ll be visiting city spaces that provide great opportunities for free running. Time to hit the streets!

Thursday 1st July 2010
‘Designing Your Games’

Together you will design proposals for urban sports elements for the Commonwealth Games site and determine the best locations for your design ideas. In the evening we’ll be traveling to London!

Friday 2nd July 2010
‘Olympic Games – City Exchange’

Explore the Olympic Games site in London and meet with some of the London participants of A4E. Let’s see what they did for this workshop. In the afternoon we’ll travel back to Glasgow.

Monday 5th July 2010
‘Realising your own designs.’

Together with the architects and architectural students you will develop your design proposals and you will explore building materials like timber, steel, cardboard and bricks.

Tuesday 6th July 2010
‘Challenge Yourself & Challenge Us.’ Building big things! Day 1

You’ll be building your own designs on a real life size scale! You can tell the architects and architectural students how they can help you.

Wednesday 7th July 2010
‘Challenge Yourself & Challenge Us.’ Building big things! Day 2

You’ll be building your own designs on a real life size scale! You can tell the architects and architectural students how they can help you.

Thursday 8th July 2010
‘Share Your Ideas’

Present your design and workshop experience to the other A4E participants, who will travel from London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Sheffield. Professionals will be there as well to advice you on future study or jobs in the built environment. And there will be a big party for all the A4E participants and everybody involved!

If you are interested in taking part please contact:
Samantha MacDonald by email at: Samantha.MacDonald@ads.org.uk

PLACES ARE LIMITED SO HURRY!!

Parkour

Today the A4E Urban Pioneers are working with Urban Playground, learning about parkour and choreographing a performance which you can catch this afternoon at 4pm!

Designing for sport and leisure

On Thursday 15 April the Pioneers worked with RMJM and Catherine Greig to create spaces in Deptford to be used for sport and leisure.

Exploring the Spaces Between

On Wednesday 14 April, the Pioneers worked with writer Nick Makoha, Illustrator David Sparshott and architects Dominic Weil and David Rosenberg to identify, capture, celebrate and suggest improvements to the spaces left between buildings in Deptford.

Deptford Walk !

Wednesday 14th April – the Architecture for Everyone Urban Pioneers took to the streets of Deptford and explored the sorrounding area aswell as stopping off at a cafe for a quick cuppa to keep the hands warm and ready to keep drawing!!

Accompanied by Illustrater David Sparshott the group practiced a new way of capturing what was infront of them through different drawing techniques.  Nick Makoha put the groups creatives minds in gear and Architects Dominic Weil and David Rosenberg started up  a discussion about the changing landscape of Deptford and how todays activites will help inform tomorrow’s ideas.

Keep an eye out for what happens next! 

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Visit to 2012 site

On Tuesday 13 April, the Architecture for Everyone Urban Pioneers visited the Athletes’ Village with developers Lend Lease, which which includes residential and educational buildings designed by architects from a panel selected through an international competition managed by the Architecture Foundation in 2007.

In the afternoon, they met Kay Hughes, Project Sponsor and Principal Design Advisor for the Olympic Delivery Authority to learn about the Olympic Park and its legacy.

A4E in the northwest

In Liverpool and Manchester we’ve been working away since February. We’re now 6 sessions in and there’s been some great work. The 27 participants from the two cities have been on tours of Liverpool 1 with the master planners, done Parkour in Manchester, designed schemes to improve their cities over a design weekend… and now there’s just the final exhibition next week left! Looking forward to showing the ideas to local architects and city council reps. Have a quick look at a few of our photos below…

Architecture for Everyone Urban Pioneers design urban green spaces

On Monday the group worked with Joanna Roberts from East Architects to create designs for a park in New Cross. Working in pairs, the Pioneers came up with new schemes for Hatcham Gardens, and presented their ideas to the rest of the group, Jo and colleague Angela Spencer in a crit at the end of the day.

Creekside Centre

On Monday 12 April the Architecture for Everyone Urban Pioneers visited Deptford’s Creekside Centre to discover the wealth of wildlife living in what seems at first glance like a hostile environment

Urban Africa in Photos

One of the leading architects of his generation, David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism. Often regarded as a continent defined by underdevelopment, poverty, war and tourism, through this exhibition Adjaye presents Africa in a different light, examining the buildings and places which have a special resonance with his preoccupations as an architect.
This detailed survey will reveal a unique snapshot of life in Africa today, documenting the nature of urban life in a developing continent, a unique geo-cultural survey profiling the African city in a global context.
Showing at the Design Museum now.