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| Issue 03 July 2008 |
MADE* is the regional architecture centre in the West Midlands. To find out more about who we are and the work we undertake see our website www.made.org.uk alternatively view this newsletter in your browser. In this issue |
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| Design Enabling Study Day | |
MADE* Design Enabling service recently took 30 of its clients, enablers and other partners from the region on a study tour of Sheffield. The party walked the city's 'Gold Route'; a succession of linked public spaces which take you from the railway station to the centre of the city. After lingering with the crowds, enjoying the sun in the Peace Gardens, our party split into two. One group went to see the work of Southey Owlerton Area Regeneration an exemplary community-led estate regeneration initiative including new community buildings, public spaces and parks. |
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| Enabling service will build on success | |
MADE's regional design enabling service reached a significant milestone recently with a meeting in Walsall to evaluate the six-month 'trial' programme. This initial trial provided seven enablers for four very different projects in the Black Country. At the meeting on Tuesday 8th July, clients from Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall councils and their enablers gave a very positive account of the effects that a fresh pair of eyes can have when a public body faces design challenges. The projects included town centre masterplans, estate regeneration projects and public park revitalisation. Enablers have been instrumental in: raising design aspirations, connecting with regional strategies, helping people to articulate their design objectives and ensuring that procurement processes have place-making at their heart. The design enabling service will now continue with funding secured from Advantage West Midlands for the next three years. Any public body facing a design challenge should contact design enabling manager, David Tittle to find out what enabling can do for them: 0121 633 9403 or david@made.org.uk |
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| 2008 Urban Design Public Lecture Series | |
image courtesy of Patel Taylor
Over 160 professionals and members of the public attended the 3rd lecture in the talking cities series at the Town Hall, Birmingham on Monday June 16th 2008. Andrew Taylor, founding partner of Patel Taylor provided the main speech. Patel Taylor won Birmingham City Council's competition to design the Eastside Urban Park, from an international shortlist of 6. This will be Birmingham's first city park for over a century. His talk focused on the nature of cities as public places, showing how European cities, from Venice to Barcelona, have achieved their greatness through their parks and public spaces and was followed by a response by Professor Kathryn Moore of Birmingham City University (Immediate Past President of the Landscape Institute). Philip Singleton (Acting Assistant Director City Centre Development and Design) finished off the evening by chairing a discussion and questions from the audience. |
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| MADE Delegation to Stockholm, 1-3 October 2008 - BOOKING NOW | |
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The sustainability programme includes targets for decontamination, use of Brownfield land, provision of public transport options to discourage car use, energy consumption, recycling of water and waste, with a target for the project to be twice as environmentally effective as normal new build projects in the inner city. The development includes the Glass House environmental education centre created to educate and encourage residents to make full use of all of the environmental features of the area and advise on environmental issues. MADE's delegations are designed to appeal to a wide range of practitioners including; architects, landscape architects, planners, regeneration officers, urban designers, artists, engineers, public sector clients, cultural organisations, developers, neighbourhood renewal officers and community representatives. Places are limited, to register or find out more please contact sally@made.org.uk |
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| Rescue Geography | |
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MADE is working in partnership with University of Birmingham (Dr Phil Jones) and University of Manchester (Dr James Evans) on a research project entitled Rescue Geography. "LabOne" will be taking place between 11th-26th October 2008. The laboratory will provide an interactive and participatory forum for communities, designed environment professionals, schools and the public to creatively engage with place, forging links between its past and its future. In the first week there will be set sessions for professionals, schools and the public as well as an evening debate open to both professionals and the public. The second week will be open for all to come and view the exhibition as well as undertake activities within MADE HQ as well as the surrounding Eastside area. To book a session contact Sally. Find out more about the Rescue Geography Methodology. |
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| Creative Communities | |
image courtesy of Solihull live project
Creative Communities is MADE's regional initiative for the sustainable engagement of young people with place, in particular in regeneration contexts. The programme aims to increase the direct participation of young people in design and development processes. As the live projects in Tibbington, Ammington and Solihull are drawing to a close, a final report on the Creative Communities programme will be available shortly. The proceedings from the 'Under the Influence' symposium in March are now available to download and you can also view the film from the Tibbington 'my space' project on FirstSite. |
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| Urban Explorers | |
The pilot for Urban Explorers has now been completed and the resource pack is available to download. Urban Explorers makes use of the wider urban environment as a teaching resource, creating an appreciation of urban biodiversity and opportunities for young people to be questioning and demanding of their environment and the people who create and maintain it |
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This years delegation will be to Stockholm, with a particular focus on Hammarby Sjöstad, a unique environmental project in Stockholm and one of the world's highest profile examples of Sustainable City Development. Aiming to expand the inner city across the water this new district will comprise 9,000 apartments, housing a population of 20,000 people, and 200,000 sq m of commercial floor space attracting a further 10,000 people to work in the area, completing in 2015. 
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