Studio: Collaborative Production

Studio: Collaborative Production is a design studio run as part of the MArch degree course at Sheffield School of Architecture. The Studio runs over a 20 week period, and is attended by between 10 and 12 students working towards their RIBA Part 2 professional qualification.  

The studio takes as its starting point a recognition that the prevailing economic model of speculation and market-driven growth is unable to address the urgent global challenges of climate change and social inequality.  Informed by a reading of post-capitalist theory, the studio explores an alternative model based on interdependency, social capital and local value.  

The notion of collaborative production extends to the working methodology of the studio, with students working collectively, sharing resources, ideas and approaches.  Working together, students develop a collective strategy for the creation of an environmentally sustainable and socially dynamic urban neighbourhood.  The new neighbourhood becomes a testbed for new ideas, and the prototyping of innovations in community ownership, building construction, and food and energy production.  

Daniel Jary - Studio Leader