SOCIAL VALUES

TASC is driven by community based projects and has a strong social ethos. By upgrading TASC’s studios via the design and application of flexible furniture, the studio will serve as a community space for art and architecture in the Gorton Community, show-casing student's works and projects as well as attracting new comers to the TASC programme. The design outcome of the flexible furniture should exude the underlying aim to inspire and enthuse students to explore their physical surroundings through its basic use and ability to transform, aligning with TASC's main aims.

Our events project will allow BArch and MArch students to explore human proportions while thinking of the interrelationships of human and furniture to establish a strong tangible solution to enhance the social learning space.


Past projects include ‘Going Places, Growing Places’, ‘Den City’, ‘looking at the city sideways‘.

ERGONOMICS AND ANTHROPOMETRICS

Ergonomic furniture describes products which have been designed with comfort, functionality and the movement of the human body in mind. This type of furniture is becoming more and more popular in modern workspace design schemes and is something we would like to reinforce when thinking about sustainable design solutions for schools and offices for long term use. Moreover, ergonomics must be considered as part of any upcoming refurbishment or fit out project. As of today, it can be observed an increased concern about the school classrooms, in particular about the study and design of school furniture fitting the students' needs and anthropometrics characteristics therefore as part of Events 21, we will explore the human dimensions from children to adults in order to create the comfortable and fitted flexible furniture solution for the new TASC studios.

LIVE PROJECT

Events 21 involves live participation from different working parties and collaborators, such as MSA, TSAC, Rogue Artist Studios and the Manchester City Council. All our efforts will be in hopes to attain support from the Manchester City Council, to convert TASC and Rogue Artist Studio into a creative and flexible social hub for the Gorton Area. This means that students will get the opportunity to meet and collaborate with clients, receive working feedback and present a proposal to the directors of Rogue Studios.