Space Explorers
Exploring Architecture Through the Arts
January - July 2008
Between January and July 2008, Northern Architecture worked with North East schools on the Space Explorers Programme. Funded by CABE, ACE and The Ernest Cook Trust, the programme enabled pupils from these schools to work with architects and artists to explore their local built environment through the arts. From painting to poetry, ceramics to woodcarving, pupils responded to architecture through many art forms. They discussed the impact the built environment has on themselves and others and many designed improvements they would make to the areas they visited and explored.
Throughout the course of the project, Northern Architecture worked with:
• 17 schools
• 20 teachers
• 373 pupils
• 10 artists
• 17 architects and architectural assistants
A full copy of the evaluation report for this project, outlining the nature of the projects and detailing the feedback we received from teachers and pupils, can be downloaded below.
To see images of the work we produced with some of the schools, visit our flickr page.
Also go to Google Maps to see a poem by pupils at West Walker Primary School (type in 'wesley bingo' and make sure to look for 'user-created content' in search options).
Funded by: CABE, ACE, Ernest Cook Trust
Supported by: Ainsworth Spark Associates, Assael Architecture, Eversheds, Creating_Space, FaulknerBrowns, Halsall Llloyd Partnership, IDP-Northern, Jesmond Group Chartered Architects, Mackellar Architecture Ltd, Mosedale Gillatt Architects, Nicholson Nairn Architects, Ryder, SMC Parr Architects, Walker Simpson Architects, Xsite Architecture
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