I designed and delivered a highly effective making workshop as part of the School's Widening Participation efforts with The Sutton Trust. Dialogic principles were embedded within the workshop to engage participants in collaborative design challenges, supporting the development of essential skills and culminating in the construction of a miniature community. This direct engagement has demonstrably enabled students from underrepresented backgrounds in accessing higher education within our school.Workshop, Inclusivity, Participation,Pedagogy,Jennifer Kerr
Stories of Situated Pedagogies in Architecture and ..., 3rd - 4th October 2023
This international workshop, which was held in Istanbul on 3-4 October 2023, gathered educators and learners to share their stories of situated pedagogies in architecture and other fields with an interest in critical spatial practices. The open call to the workshop was announced in April 2023 for applicants to respond with their stories of personal experiences in education, together with critical responses to themselves. This call was intended to be the beginning of a playful and productive platform for communication, through pre-workshop peer-to-peer reviews, round-table sessions and post-workshop collaborations for publication. As such, the workshop is envisioned as a manifestation of slow and caring connectivity among educators and learners who have experimented with and experienced transformative pedagogies.Workshop reportBook,Workshop, Climate Emergency,EDI,Pedagogy,Emre Akbil
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AAE Conference
Glasshouse, WEdesign Workshop, July 2023
A presentation and Workshop delivered at the Association of Architecture Educators (AAE) conference in Cardiff, celebrating the learning and experiences of partners in the WEdesign national event series and considering the potential for creating a replicable model for participatory design.Presentation, Workshop, Participation, Leo Care
Masterplanning
Living the Region, 2017
In November 2017 URBED were delighted to be invited to take part in the DAM- Lab workshop “Living the Region” at the Frankfurt Hypermotion fair. The workshop was organised by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and designed as live project taking place within the fair itself.URBED were one of five teams and were joined by AWP from Paris, LOLA Landscape Architects from Rotterdam, KCAP Architects&Planners from Rotterdam and feld72 from Vienna.Over three days we were tasked with developing a vision for the future of the Frankfurt RheinMain region, bringing together innovative housing and transport solutions. At the same time we also had to illustrate how this future vision might manifest itself at a smaller scale, by designing a conceptual urban quarter based on a fictitious town within the region.We had great deal of fun working on this project, sharing the workshop space with our international colleagues and exploring Frankfurt in the evenings. The workshop culminated in a short presentation by each of the teams, but the project doesn't end there! All five teams are now working up their concepts to be displayed in an exhibition in the DAM next year. We look forward to sharing our ideas and seeing what the other teams have developed.http://urbed.coop/projects/living-region-dam-workshop Book,Exhibition,Workshop,Placemaking,John Sampson