Category: Sheffield
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Sheffield Community Place Initiatives Map
Sheffield-specific map of vibrant urban communities and innovative community place initiatives across Sheffield was the first step in the methodology of the Sheffield team of Urban Education Live research project. The starting point for this was our extensive number of collaborations with Sheffield-based community groups and organisations that has developed through the School of Architecture’s…
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Twenty years of pioneering Live Projects programme at the Sheffield School of Architecture could hold the key to the future of education and the profession
Founded by SSOA in 1999, Sheffield University’s Live Project programme is the longest running Live Project programme in the UK, with an established track record. The internationally renowned initiative could hold the key to reforming British architectural education and re-establishing the role of the architect in society through its pioneering engagement philosophy. Every year around…
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Sheffield School of Architecture Theory Forum 2020: Liveness
The SSoA Theory Forum is an annual event that showcases the work of architectural researchers and practitioners who are exploring a contemporary theme or challenge in architecture and urban design. The most recent online Theory Forum, held on 25-26th November 2020, explored the value of ‘liveness’ in architectural education. The event was co-curated and hosted…
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UEL:SHEF presents: Collaborations between the University and local communities
UEL:SHEF partners Ruth Nutter and Zak Ahmed talk about their collaborations with the University and the potentials of University-Community collaborations.
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UEL:SHEF presents: The role of physical presence vs virtual collaborations
UEL:SHEF partners Ruth Nutter and Zak Ahmed talk about their experience with being physically present in the city vs the recent shift to virtual collaborations.
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Operating and Evaluating University Hubs: The Case of Sheffield
”Universities will have to work towards better understanding the complexities of evaluating co-production with communities, in order to navigate the balance between imagining long-term visions and short-term solutions whilst maintaining academic rigour.” (UEL Report Summary Operating and Evaluating University Hubs: The Case of Sheffield) In the context of UEL the majority of such co-production collaborations…
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Urban Education Live Research Symposium 2020 in Sheffield
Urban Education Live Research Symposium hosted at SSoA Dates 27-30th January 2020 Sheffield team were very fortunate to host Urban Education Live research partners from Bucharest, Ljubljana and Tampere in late January 2020 – before travel restrictions came into force worldwide due to Covid-19 pandemic. During the 4-day Symposium, we took our guests on a…
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Play/Grounds: a celebration of play in the city
Pitsmoor Adventure Playground in the City Tuesday 5 November Live Works hosted a one day event to explore how the adventure playground can be a place of community, diversity, experimentation and spontaneity. As part of the Festival of Social Science, this showcase event was the culmination of a 6-week co-design project by Architecture students, Pitsmoor…
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UEL and SSoA Collaborate on Exhibition of Student Work
Urban Education Live supported a recent exhibition of student work in a busy supermarket in Sheffield. Architectural design projects by undergraduate and masters students were on show in the Tesco Extra in the residential neighbourhood of Burngreave for a week in June. The exhibition, showing proposals for sites in the city centre and in Burngreave,…
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UEL at American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
Representatives from Urban Education Live partners were presenting current research work and themes associated with the project at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, DC in early April 2019. The panel was session was co-organised by Panu Lehtovuori,Tatjana Schneider and Gruia Badescu, the latter also chairing the UEL session. While it is…