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Castlegate Common Manifesto - reduced.pdf

Castlegate

Castlegate Commons Community Pavilion, February - May 2024

Inspired by the vision developed by students through the Live Project 'Castlegate Commons' in Oct-Nov 2023, Live Works was commissioned by Sheffield City Council to facilitate a co-design process with local stakeholders. This work builds on the last three years of co-production that have developed a clear community-led approach to the development and use of the park and its facilities. Using the 'Castlegate Commons Manifesto' as a foundation, we have worked with local community stakeholders to develop a vision for the design, operation and stewardship of a new pavilion in the Castle park.Throughout each stage, Live Works has aimed to facilitate a transparent, representative and effective co-production process that delivers meaningful engagement with local stakeholders and the public towards the development of the Castle site. We held two workshops and a study trip to London:

Workshop #1 Foundations: Sharing knowledge and aspirations, reaching common understanding, establishing good principles of design, developing an initial brief.
Study Trip: Visiting inspiring community/ecology/cultural venues and meeting the people who run them to understand how the projects were developed and are now used and managed sustainably
Workshop #2 Vision: Considering governance & time-scales, developing an initial spatial brief

Local Government Report, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Design, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Leo Care

Castlegate

Co-production Index, September 2023 - January 2024

This digital index brings together for the first time all the work that students and academics at the School of Architecture have produced for Castlegate over the last decade.Castlegate is the historic birthplace of Sheffield, located at the confluence of the Rivers Don and Sheaf. This now dilapidated area of the city centre was once a bustling home to 800 years of market trading, theatres, industry and one of the largest mediaeval castles in England, demolished in 1650.Since 2014, students, graduates and academics from the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield have been co-producing design work and participatory research with community groups, local independent businesses, public-sector institutions, Sheffield City Council and colleagues from the Departments of Archaeology and Computer Science, to develop an ambitious shared vision for the future development of the area.This co-production process is envisioning, campaigning for and supporting the development of a new neighbourhood, accessible to all, that celebrates the rich heritage and social history of Castlegate while creating a viable sustainable future.The School of Architecture, through its project office Live Works, is acting as an effective mediator between grassroots and the local authority, helping to build capacity towards meaningful co-production at all scales. Our students’ creative engagement activities, research and design ideas have been instrumental in building a vision, shared by all partners, to deliver an ambitious, community-driven, socially, economically and environmentally sustainable new city quarter.Website, Climate Emergency, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, History and Representation, Case Study, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Emre Akbil

Castlegate Urban Room Public Engagement Report.pdf

Castlegate

Castlegate Futures Urban Room, November 2022

The Castlegate Futures Urban Room ran from 12-20th November 2022 and was set up to facilitate the engagement of stakeholders and local people with Sheffield City Council’s plans for a new public space to be built on the Castle site, and for the future of Castlegate more widely.Live Works and MArch Studio in Residence worked in partnership with Sheffield City Council and the Castlegate Partnership (a collaboration with local community groups, universities, charities, arts organisations and independent businesses) to facilitate a programme of exhibitions, discussions, tours and activities to engage people in the past, present and future of this extraordinary part of our city. The previously co-produced Castlegate Common Manifesto, also facilitated by Live Works, informed directly the public engagement programme.The new public space will open up access to the River Sheaf, provide spaces for arts and community events, and reveal the rich heritage of the area, including the remains of the Castle. It should be a place for people from all over Sheffield of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to feel connected to each other and to their city’s history - where everyone can feel welcome. It is hoped that this will catalyse further regeneration of Castlegate that places people, heritage and the environment at its heart."Since securing Levelling Up funding in October 2021, Carolyn has facilitated an inclusive co-production process, including running stakeholder workshops in November 2021 and June 2022 with a variety of stakeholders, occupiers, and the Council, to support the detailed design of the Castle site development.
She supported a public engagement programme in November 2022 which led to planning approval in May 2023. As part of this, Carolyn set up and promoted the Castlegate Futures Urban Room and ran a variety of public workshops which were invaluable." Lucia Lorente-Arnau, Principal Development Officer, Sheffield City CouncilPresentation, Event, EDI, Placemaking, Participation, History and Representation, Case Study, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Emre Akbil

Castlegate Common Manifesto - reduced.pdf

Castlegate

Castlegate Commons Manifesto, November 2021

Live Works was commissioned by Sheffield City Council to deliver a series of workshops with local stakeholders to inform and enhance the regeneration of the Castle Site in Castlegate, building on 8 years of research, visioning and engagement by the School of Architecture in the area. This co-production process aimed to support the development of the new public realm so that it benefits as much as possible from the extraordinary potential of this unique site and its rich community context. The workshops engaged existing members of the Castlegate Partnership and other local stakeholders to ensure representation of the diversity of the area's population and grassroots activities. The workshop themes were:

Revealing the Outdoor City
Revealing Innovation
Revealing Arts and Culture
Revealing Heritage

The award of Levelling Up funding required meaningful community engagement to inform directly the project design. 13 co-produced recommendations from the workshops were presented in the 'Castlegate Common Manifesto' and these recommendations informed directly the planning application that was submitted by Sheffield City Council in February 2023. Beyond the stakeholder workshops, Live Works ran the 'Castlegate Futures Urban Room' in November 2022 that gathered public feedback on the Manifesto recommendations, further informing the Council's plans. Report, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Emre Akbil

FoTM Speigel Latest .pptx

Castlegate

Experience Castlegate, September 2018

Experience Castlegate is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Partners in the project are UoS academics from Archaeology, Architecture and Computer Science with creative industry and community partners, Human VR and Friends of Sheffield Castle.Outputs from the research were showcased in the Futurecade (Millennium Galleries) for 10 days during the Festival of the Mind 2018. The exhibit was visited by 1000s of people and featured in local and regional press and TV. The project looks at Castlegate in Sheffield as a testbed to explore how immersive digital technologies can engage people in local heritage while involving them in the processes of urban regeneration.In the Futurecade visitors experienced a 3D digital model of Sheffield’s Castle, through Augmented Reality (AR). This was the first public view of a new model of the Castle based on recent archaeological research on this hidden, yet incredibly important, piece of Sheffield’s history. The AR overlaid upon a physical model at 1:150 scale and showing the site of the Castle, and of Castle Markets, as it is now. When the model is viewed through ipads the Castle springs into view, overlaid upon the contemporary site.Alongside the model was a film showing the digital model of the Castle, excerpts from recent archaeological archival research and future visions of the site by architecture students. This exhibit led to a lecture by Carolyn Butterworth, John Moreland and Nick Bax in the Speigeltent to 200 members of the public. Carolyn also gave a lecture to 120 members of the alumni Heritage Circle in Firth Hall on the project. The Experience Castlegate model and AR is due to be shown at the National Videogame Museum in Castlegate for several weeks in spring 2019.Event, Presentation, EDI, History and Representation, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Carolyn Butterworth

Imagine Castlegate.pdf

LW Project Summary Imagine Castlegate.pdf

Castlegate

Imagine Castlegate, September 2015

I edited a 112p book, 750 copies printed, exploring how a mix of vibrancy events and real projects are transforming Castlegate including:

work from SSoA and Dept. of Landscape
ReMake Castlegate
community groups FOTH and FOSC
Castlegate Festival & Sheffield Bazaar

Sept. 15 the book was launched to 100 delegates at the international conference ‘Architecture and Resilience at the Human Scale’ & distributed across TUoS, stakeholders, national and international networks.Aims: To produce a book that showcased the work done over 12 months by The University of Sheffield in Castlegate, an area of Sheffield city centre in decline. The intention was to demonstrate the value of the teaching and research that had taken place in the area, in collaboration with local organisations and community groups.Report, Book, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Carolyn Butterworth

LW Project Summary Castlegate Festival.pdf

Castlegate

Castlegate Festival, June 2015

Live Works designed and delivered the following for the Festival:

publicity material and map
exhibition in Castle House of student design and research work for sites in Castlegate
engagement activities in Castle House using the ReMake Castlegate (Festival of the Mind) model

Aims:To make a creative contribution to the inaugural Castlegate Festival, 21-22 June 2015. The aims of the Festival were to:

provide family friendly, inclusive activities
increase footfall and engage with the people of Sheffield
promote the area and improve people’s perception of Castlegate
tell the stories of Castlegate’s history and future plans through imaginative art installations, exhibitions and activities

Report, Event, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, History and Representation, Case Study, Carolyn Butterworth

ReMake Castlegate Culture Consortium.pptx

Castlegate

ReMake Castlegate, September 2014

ReMake Castlegate was a project developed in partnership with Yorkshire Artspace and commissioned artists Simon le Ruez, Anne-Marie Atkinson and Clare McCormak to explore the past, present and future of the Castlegate area of Sheffield. As part of Festival of the Mind 2014 local people were invited to work with a large physical model of Castlegate, to express, record and share memories, opinions and ideas for the area. The project was hosted at Exchange Place Studios, where, over the course of the Festival, we invited local people and businesses to add to and remake parts of a large physical model, capturing what has been lost, what remains, and what could be. Over the week we had 800 visitors and saw Castlegate re-made by many hands, all revealing the area’s diversity and idiosyncrasies. The findings from the project were presented at Urban Design Week and to the Culture Consortium and SCC. The project was the catalyst for years of SSoA working in Castlegate through multiple Live Projects, Live Studios and co-production with SCC and local stakeholders.Presentation, EDI, Participation, Placemaking, Case Study, Participatory, Carolyn Butterworth and Leo Care

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