Events 2018

Final presentation

#EXHIBITION_DAY

Exhibition boards are on!! Such a great pleasure to listen to all these positive comments from the children.

Video from the exhibition in progress.

Great work by some of the members of group 3 in curating their site map for the 8th floor lobby exhibition. The Dada art form is clear within their collages and final outputs

Completed construction manual ready for the handover of the Soapbox to Manchester Histories Festival.

Day 9//

Putting up the wall panels by undergraduates.

Urban Greening

The exhibition was a success! positive feedback and everyone enjoyed the models.

Final crit to Bruntwood

#ITSCURTAINS

The exhibition was a huge success and cleaning up was a big team effort! Thanks to all the undergraduates for producing amazing work and for a fabulous events project!

A little snap of the final site model displayed alongside our presentation to the board members at Wythenshawe AFC.

Excellent work all round from everyone these past two weeks, very well received during the presentation by our collaborator Wythenshawe AFC and it’s board members. Done yourselves proud!

Students explaining their concept to visitors from city concuil and purcell.

End of Events we had an exhibition in Town Hall to celeberate all the works.

All of the students were present to talk through their work and answer any questions.

The room quickly filled up as everyone came to look around during their lunch break.

The Purcell team reviewing our displays and models during the final exhibition, all the hard work has paid off!

DAY 10// ITS A WRAP! After a few final alterations we are ready with our final exhibition model, design proposal document and the events film. I’d like to thank all BA students for their hard work and continuing engagement with all tasks they were given throughout the event. In the process we not only learned a lot, explored new ideas and solved numerous design problems but we also made friends and exchanged valuable skills between MA and MArch students. The successful completion of Lobby Line Up would have been impossible without your contributions, it’s been a pleasure!

Today our collaborator will present our work to the Festival Promoter. We have had positive feedback from our Collaborator on the design.

Presentations are underway with our collaborator, Bruntwood.

DAY 10// After lunch I gathered all videos and added the new ones from this morning which I later edited for the draft film submission. It has been a long but also very productive day. This is the first time I have had to do film editing and it has been the most challenging part of events considering the short period of time I had to do it and the lack of experience using the software. I am proud and pleased with the final result but also looking forward to the feedback as there is always space for improvement.

Big thank you dbn audile for lending us some RGB uplighters and a strobe to experiment with the installation last night. After waiting for the sun to set we were able to completely change the aesthetic of the installation using the equipment.

More to follow....... 🎇

Publication team working out a layout and drafting articles to put in the publication

Completed posters to hang in the perspex windows of the Soapbox!

Setting up for our afternoon of presentations to our collaborator.

Last day of construction. Well done everyone with good efforts! We managed to get all the five components in time and it looks really gooooooood! Thanks everyone for participating, hope you guys enjoyed it !

SO CLOSE!

George hard at work fixing the bunting through eyelets in the top corners of the soapbox.

Removing the last of the protective film!

The notched base detail for the studwork cross bracing!

George in awe of the studwork detailing.

Fastening the last of the screws to secure the fabric canopy in place!

People continuing to work hard on their projects. Stay tuned for more ! #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

DAY 10// The final document has been finished and is ready to be sent to our client. Giorgiana Padurean was responsible for putting together a big part of the indesign document. She did an amazing job not only engaging with every task during the last two weeks but also going the extra mile and adding work to the document during her spare time. Her efforts didn’t go unnoticed and have made a big contribution towards the successful completion of Lobby Line Up.

Footbuild member Arturo showing the students how to make models.

61//Detroit – Manchester - Zones of Urban Experimentation

Day Nine: With the first draft of the publication now complete, we all went through it as a group and made any changes that were picked up on the run through. A draft print was also done to determine which type of printer and paper we wished to use for the final product. Our work for the Soapbox events group was also completed and our work was added into the exhibition.

Video all ready! Looking forward to the viewing tomorrow.

DAY 10// Today we spent the morning finishing off the model and making sure it’s perfect for the exhibition. Roland Burt did the final touches by applying a few layers of spraypaint and putting together the backwall and the graphics for the windows. Great effort from Roland throughout the whole event, his proactive approach is much appreciated!

The film team gathered some additional footage to supplement the film they’re making to document the day. They’ve also started editing the footage. Exciting stuff!
#reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

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#ITSAWRAP

And the symposium is done!!

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#WARMUP

Little snapshot of our warmup.

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#PREP

Yesterday before the symposium everybody added some last touches to their projects. Eleanor and Alfie planted some flowers in their bird hotel.

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#IMPRESSION

..of our filled up exhibition space. It was nice for everybody to see all the work from the past days in one space.

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#GROUP21

And a Team Photograph of all of us. Our Undergrads were super well organized, always motivated and very talented. The outcome of these 9 days would have definitely not been possible without all of you, thanks!

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#A-TEAM

Team Photograph of us! I cant believe how well we worked in a team and how fast the time flew by!

DAY 10 - Our guests and collaborators will be arriving at 2pm this afternoon ready for a prompt 2.30pm start. We are looking forward to seeing your final work and celebrating your ideas with the collaborators!

Best of luck!

After a successful start to the week and finishing the construction of the ticket booth, it is time to put the finishes touches to the film ahead of the group viewing tomorrow!

Victoria was putting signs for Academic Round Table guiding our guests to the venure.

Joe and Becca are finalising the last bits of the video which will be presented today in the Business School!

Last minute preparation before our collaborators are in later. The groups have been working really well together, they are refining their presentations and discussing what they will be presenting this afternoon.

The team is working on photographing and editing all the models and design sheets ready to put in the publication and the blog!

#reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

Today is one of our team member's birthday. Happy Birthday Gina! Who said working couldn’t involve cake...

#reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

As well as a physical publication, the team is also working on a 3 minute film documenting the day of the charrette.
Here they are working on their storyboard!
#reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

What is your ideal house??
Come and join us to play the game and find out!

PHASE Engagement Community workshop begins with our first guest Harold. We are ready to listen to older people and discuss about their house preferences, their living conditions, and any problems they may face.We are about to show them age friendly design proposals and see what they think about them.
After all the statistics data analysis, it is
essential to have a face-to-face conversation with people who could potentially become residents of an Age-friendly community.

Some content of the Conclusions-Comparisons Booklet.

Some content of the Spatial Capacities Document.

Last Friday (27.4) we had the amazing opportunity to collaborate with oh ok workshop to create models of two out of the six partitions that were carefully selected by the team after several presentations from the students. We used clay making the models to challenge our techniques and skills and experiment with more peculiar materials. The winners of the partition challenge, Alex and Max, overcame the challenge of experimenting with new materials and achieved a beautiful outcome

DAY// 9 CELEBRATION

Today is our last day together with 1st & 2nd years, we decided to go and celebrate our victory.

DAY// 9

A Group photo!

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More great footage for the final video!

DAY// 9 LUNA
It was extremely difficult for Luna to select a winner as all the three groups presented their work very well. Well done benchworkers, you HAVE truly made us proud!

Presentation Day!
Waiting for our collaborator, Michael Collins, to drop by on our final day to give us an insight into our progress

We played with the scale of the shiprack model to make it work as benches and facade panelling

[TRUST THE PROCESS!]

Booklets produced during the Events week, including the Spatial Capacities document, the Conclusions-Comparisons booklet and the PS1 design proposals of MSAp atelier booklet!

The Spatial Capacities document including the executive summary with the conclustions-comparisons finally printed and binded!!

Follow the signs and you will arrive in Manchester School of Architecture PHASE Engagement Community workshop!!

Preparing the double sided stickers for the exhibition boards which will be hung on the movable pavilion!

Watching the videos made for each of the four teams, before heading to the second event which is called PHASE Community Engagement Event.

Keep working in InDesign.
Making a few last minute changes in the document before the printing.

Thursday - 18:40
Helping the construction team to carry the pieces of the timber movable pavilion.

Notes made by the 5th year student Hannah during the PHASE round table discussion.

We had the pleasure to present and listen the discussion given by academics and policy makers in the PHASE round table event which took place in 70 Oxford Road. It was a great inspiration for the Comparisons-conclusions booklet by exploring new connections between existing data.

Our team which is responsible for the document's layout, editing and preparation worked mainly in In-design and photoshop. This was an excellent exercise for the undergraduates to improve their software skills, essential for their following academic years.

#EXHIBITION_DAY Enjoyed another valuable day helping the undergraduates assemble their exhibition for the children of St. Mary's School. As the post-graduates organising the workshop, the feedback from the students, school and collaborators has been great and we hope that the undergraduates have enjoyed their experience too throughout the process.

So happy with our final outputs. The BA students did such a good job. Final file is being put together tomorrow and we are officially done! What a great 2 weeks!

Today's exhibition went really well. Kids love the boards very much. They hold different ideas towards different themes and we also interviewed them about their feelings and comments. We will show that in our video, which will be uploaded later

We helped the BAs to refine their outcomes, trying our best to present a vividly and interesting exhibition to the kids

During conversations between us and Pozzoni, comments were given on the work produced and possible directions to carry the projects forward. The team has received valuable feedbacks from care architecture professionals.