Well done to our group, it's been a huge achievement to get all the curation done in two weeks, look out for the exhibition in the end of year show!

Our exhibition was then finally officially opened by Prof. Richard Greene, the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Manchester Metropolitan University- declaring the exhibition ready to travel round research conferences all summer!

The exhibition was then also officially opened by Prof. Tom Jefferies, Head of MSA - who described his involvement with PHASE and the role it serves in the school to bring different topics of research together for the social good

We had a short presentation to open the exhibition by Stefan White, describing the aims of PHASE in MSA and the numerous events our exhibition will go to throughout the summer.

The boards we've spent so long curating as a group are finally put into place on the exhibition stands!

The display begins to take its shape...

We set up the stands for the display, the projectors for the films, the sheets describing our work and the booklets holding all the information we'd been curating

We started the day by taking our exhibition display and curated boards from Chatham over to the Business School!

The PHASE Events Teams have created a series of videos highlighting what we've been up to this week- a 3 min summary just isn't enough after everything we've been up to! Here's the link to all the videos, some of which will be taken round a roadshow this summer highlighting the work of PHASE at four different conferences and events:
Co-housing: https://youtu.be/UwG4HFR4F3w
Spatial Capacities: https://youtu.be/0NNjDl_OSUs
Community Engagement Game: https://youtu.be/xEKLfNqEteU
A summary of the teamwork between Group 19 & 04: https://youtu.be/cFkUT9ZjcMo
The work of group 19: https://youtu.be/sm1QIGDkz2c

The community engagement team have been printing and assembling all the pieces for their game that they've been designing for the workshop -keep going, there's hundreds of cards to sort out!

As part of our exhibition, and the community engagement event on Monday, we've had a team making a film of the key points of our research. Here they are hard at work yesterday!

Now we're having a question time- what do the policy makers think of our academic ideas, and what do the academics have to ask the policy makers? We've had questions covering care homes, developers, the multi-generational household, cultural change, dementia friendly housing and quality of architecture in different parts of the country. Now to the undergraduate students, what questions do they have?

We've heard lots of short presentations from our collaborators on their really interesting and insightful research and why they are interested in housing for older people. There's a consensus that housing for older people hasn't been given enough thought, and it's good to hear that other Universities have been researching this in collaboration with architectural practices.

The first of our three big events during this week has kicked off!
We're hosting an academic round table, discussing with 13 academics and policy makers in Greater Manchester the work we've been doing on housing for older people, and their experience of the dynamic between researchers and policy makers...

Welcome back to Events! Great to see so many of you this morning to continue the curating the exhibition and designing the community engagement games

The community engagement group have started the day by continuing with their board game -good progress!

The team has been split into two - the first group are concentrating on designing a community engagement event, including games, workshops and questionnaires to find out what older people want from housing in Greater Manchester.
This will be a key event in our events week!

Hope you've all had a good break and are ready for Events Week! We'd like to kick off by meeting you in Chatham 514 at 9.45am this Wednesday.
Attached is a timetable for the whole two weeks, please note that some venues and times change each day.
See you on Wednesday!

Thanks to those of you who came last week! We had a great time meeting you all and designing the exhibition display stands- we've finished the design and paperwork for Events and can't wait to get started on it with you!

Having a productive day organising all the activities for Events week. We've got a large mix of events, from workshops in studio, to Academic Round Table discussions and Community Engagement events... We'll be working closely with Group 04 (Spinning Perceptions) to make sure the exhibition we curate is exhibited in a great way!