After the success of our initial workshops last week we returned to City School yesterday (25.10.2007) to once again work with the Year 7’s. This time the workshops were a little more architectural and creative with students being asked to make collages of the school showing changes that they thought might make the school ‘greener.’ They used [...]
Archive for October, 2007
BSF: Back to School Fool
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A Greener City School event plan, 19.10.07
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The EVENT aims to raise awareness of sustainability within the City School and gain consultation of school’s problems & understanding of current situations. There are series of workshops with groups of Year 7 and display stall announcing the ‘Green Live Action’ for the entire school.
AM.
Work Shop 1: The cool board + Top Trumps Part 1
Break: The Green [...]
The Mundane Stats……..
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Yawn…….
Its pretty dull stuff but its important to understand the demographic I think. Well thats how i justified looking at it.
I looked at the Handsworth ward to which the school belongs i believe.
Handsworth district demographic statistical summary:
Total population: 18664
Over 16 population: 13062
Economically active: 8441 (64%)
Economically inactive: 4621 (35%)
Of which unemployed: 448 (3.4%)
Retired: 2220 (16%)
Stay [...]
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Meeting the Architects
Our little chat with the City School BSF appointed architects, HLM. Representing are Lucy Plumridge and AJ Taylor.
Meeting minutes 05.10.07
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
De-brief in crosspool tavern on meeting client’s Ken Dunn and Mariam Milroy at the school and a visit to Heeley City Farm (Energy Centre closed unfortunately – RGG made arrangements for group to meet with Energy Centre representative on 11th Oct.).
Brief overview of previous meeting the day before for those not present. Discusion of facebook [...]
The School Visit
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The City School entrance does not immediately implecate bad design or an unsuitablility for its current use, neither is it in any way inspiring as an institute for education and even less so as it becomes apparent that the built-on façade is not part of the City School at all, but a community use educational resource block retro-fitted [...]
2nd Meeting Minutes
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City School Live Project
Minutes of meeting 4th October 2007
Location: studio
Present: members of Live Project Team
Points of discussion:
Meeting with the BSF architects (HLM) including AJ Taylor and Lucy Plumridge.
Heeley city farm visit.
City School visit
Before the meeting got underway CW voiced some possible issues related to the use of video camera usage, this can be discussed with [...]
Mind mapping
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Meeting Minutes 2
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City School Live Project
Minutes of meeting 3rd October 2007
Location: studio
Present: members of Live Project Team and Jeremy Till
The diagram of views of the project direction was explained to JT. JT suggested that it might be preferable to focus on the strands between consultation/involvement of the school community and BSF policy (see diagram in studio). He [...]
Meeting Minutes
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City School Live Project
Minutes of meeting 3rd October 2007
Location: studio
Present: members of Live Project Team
*note – first section is random notes rather than proper minutes!
Points discussed: Learning about BSF Income models Linking local and bigger agendaWhat is it about the buildings that makes them crap?Website – www.thecityschoolplus.comIdeas for how sustainability can fit into BSF programme?Creating awareness [...]
