Tag: Ssoa
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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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Sheffield Live Works: the UK’s first permanent University-funded ‘Urban Room’
Live Works is an innovative cross-cutting initiative that delivers excellence in live teaching, graduate employment, civic engagement & participatory action research, working at a local level to create & disseminate knowledge that has national and international relevance. It is the UK’s first permanent University-funded ‘Urban Room’, a space in the city centre where local people can…
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The first Focus Group Discussion with community groups in Sheffield
We had a fantastic kick-start of a series of focus group discussions with Sheffield community groups and grassroots organisations. Together with Adam Yusuf and Robin Forsyth from Israac Somali Community Association and Patrick Meleady from Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, we explored some issues surrounding the background of their organisations, the activities they create with local communities, the views on…