WORKSHOP TIMES..
Throughout August we will be doing only one workshop a week. It will take place from 4-6 every Monday. Feel free to pop along to see what we do…
July 2011
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Great article from LSMedia on 2Up 2Down →
liverpoolstudentmedia.com
Liverpool Biennial’s latest 2Up 2Down project is just the jump start this area needs for social recovery. After taking over and restoring Mitchell’s Bakery, they are now using it as a workshop space and training area for social enteprise. Working with local youth groups the project is aiming to train up local young people in design skills and architecture with the hope of applying these skills to some of the derelict properties in the area which will then be eventually tennanted out to people still on the waiting list.
You can read the article in full here
Thanks to Adam Scovell and Dani Telford from LSMedia
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Back at Base (The Bakery)...
This is the eye catching window of the Bakery, filled with quotes from the young poeple themselves…
This is the chalkboard inside the workshop were the young people can write any fleeting thoughts or ideas they may have…
This is a magnetic sheet put around the bakery to display the young poeple’s work, not just any magnetic sheet but one used also to put over front doors of houses that are to be demolished. If you look around the area these can be found everywere!
And finally this is the timeline of the 2up2down project displayed around the perimeter of the bakery…
Workshop - Internal Planning...
Back at Saint Francis of Asissi and this time we asked the young people to imagine what would go inside the house they were to make. Led by architect Marriane they were given helpful props to imagine and see it with more clarity. Here are the results of their ideas…
