Urban Education Live Research Symposium 2020 in Sheffield

Urban Education Live Research Symposium hosted at SSoA / 27-30th January 2020 The Sheffield team were very fortunate to host Urban Education Live research partners from Bucharest, Ljubljana and Tampere in late January 2020 – before travel restrictions came into force worldwide due - Read More

Play/Grounds: a celebration of play in the city

Pitsmoor Adventure Playground in the City / Tuesday 5 November 2019 Live Works hosted a one day event to explore how the adventure playground can be a place of community, diversity, experimentation and spontaneity.  As part of the Festival of - Read More

UEL and SSoA Collaborate on Exhibition of Student Work

Urban Education Live supported a recent exhibition of student work in a busy supermarket in Sheffield. Architectural design projects by undergraduate and masters students were on show in the Tesco Extra in the residential neighbourhood of Burngreave for a week  - Read More

2017 RIBA President’s Medals exhibition

The Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA) and Sheffield Society of Architects (SSA) are delighted to bring the 2017 RIBA President’s Medal exhibition to the city for the very first time. The exhibition will be on display in Live Works from 23 April to 4 May, Monday to Friday 1pm – 6 pm and Saturday 28 April 10 am – 3 pm.   - Read More

Urban Rooms Network Website

As part of our leading role in the Urban Rooms Network, Live Works has been developing a website to allow members to share ideas across the network and to showcase the activities of individual urban rooms. You can visit the website, and see what other urban rooms across the country have been up to, at https://urbanroomsnetwork.wordpress.com.  -  Read More

You Are Here Exhibition and Publication

You Are Here is running from 25th February – 10th March at Live Works, 18-20 Union St. The exhibition showcases temporary public artworks by Leo Fitzmaurice, OSA and Sans façon, which occupied Sheffield city centre during December 2015. - Read More

Workshop with Stealth.unlimited

Live Works hosted ‘What can (not) be done?’ on 17-18th February, a two day event with SSoA Visiting Professors Ana Džokic and Marc Neelen from STEALTH.unlimited. The event focused on those situations where our efforts to reach a “better” urban future – more resilient, sustainable, fair, inspiring – hit the boundaries of what is achievable, permissible or generally accepted. - Read More

You Are Here

You Are Here is an interdisciplinary project, consisting of new temporary public art works, a one day symposium, and exhibition, to explore future ways of working collaboratively across the fields of art and architecture.

During December 2015, the commissioned artists, Leo Fitzmaurice, Office for Subversive Architecture, and Sans façon brought new temporary artworks to Sheffield.  - Read More

Studio In Residence

Sheffield School of Architecture’s ‘Studio In Residence’ will be working from Live Works until June 2016. The group of master’s students are undertaking design projects based around the Castlegate area of Sheffield, the original city centre and home to centuries of market trading, a buried castle and numerous civic and cultural institutions.  Their work builds upon the work of two previous MArch studios and two Live Projects which were based in Castlegate in 2014/5. - Read More

Wealthy City Walks

During October, Sheffield School of Architecture Live Project group arranged free creative walks around Sheffield through the eyes of John Ruskin, encouraging members of the public to think about where they see wealth in the city. - Read More

Imagine Castlegate Publication Launch

We launched our new publication, ‘Imagine Castlegate’ at the Workstation on 12th September. The book showcases work undertaken by The University of Sheffield in the Castlegate area of Sheffield over the last year, in collaboration with local organisations and community groups, The Engaged University, and Sheffield City Council. - Read More

Castlegate Futures Exhibition

This exhibition showcases research and design proposals for Castlegate produced by 60 masters students from Sheffield University School of Architecture over the last year, including design ideas for Castle House, The Old Town Hall, the Castle Market. - Read More

Urban Rooms Network meeting

We recently hosted the second Urban Rooms Network meeting in the Live Works urban room, which brought together members from across the country. The network, chaired by Live Works’ Carolyn Butterworth, aims to share practice and offer support between network members, as well as work together to promote the value of urban rooms to others. - Read More

Castlegate Festival

Live Works have been involved in the first Castlegate Festival, a two-day event celebrating and animating Castlegate through exhibitions, workshops, tours and activities. On the weekend of 20th – 21st June we brought our ReMake Castlegate model to Castle House, along with an exhibition of work by Sheffield School of Architecture students  - Read More

Sheffield Speculations

The Live Works urban room has been showcasing design ideas for Sheffield in an exhibition of SSoA postgraduate work based in the city.

The proposals include Joanna Beal’s community energy farm in Heeley which promotes the grassroots production of energy (above), Liam Ashton’s public bathhouse in Barker’s Pool which brings the elderly to  - Read More

Sheffield Cohousing Live Project

For six weeks the Sheffield Cohousing Live Project group, made up of students from SSoA, were based in the Live Works urban room, where they were looking into the potential for developing alternative housing models in Sheffield, with a specific focus on cohousing. - Read More

‘Build a New Doncaster’ Competition Launch

Doncaster Civic Trust and Live Works have launched a new annual architectural competition for primary schools in Doncaster, which aims to encourage young people to understand and engage with built environment issues and built heritage in a creative way.  - Read More

ReMake Castlegate

ReMake Castlegate is a project developed in partnership with Yorkshire Artspace and local artists as part of the Festival of the Mind 2014 in Sheffield. The project focuses on Castlegate, a significant and historic area of Sheffield which is undergoing significant change, including the closure and planned demolition of Castlegate Market.  - Read More

Cultural Value of Architecture Workshops

We recently worked with groups of 14-17 year old schoolchildren at Live Works as part of an AHRC funded research project, ‘The Cultural Value of Architecture’.  We started with a guided tour of key spaces and places in Sheffield City Centre, to investigate what goes into making buildings - Read More

Drawing the summer

Live Works recently ran a workshop as part of Museum Sheffield’s Drawing the Summer, a programme of exhibitions, events and activities to get Sheffield sketching. Based in the Winter Gardens, we invited the public to join us in the for an explorative afternoon of drawing, where we were on hand to provide drawing activities and guidance.  - Read More