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Recent Projects
These projects can be adapted to fit your needs contact us to discuss your ideas |
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Swavesy Village College Design Days
Shape East Associates help Swavesey students
design building ideas for Northstowe. |
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Ramsey Zero Carbon Project
Students from Abbey College worked with a range of built environment professionals to develop their own proposals for a development site in Ramsey. |
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Changing Schools
"Changing Schools" are tailor made secondary school workshops encouraging students to collaborate with built environment professionals to improve the design of their school buildings.
Read a review of recent workshop by one of the students |
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Organic Houses Design Workshops
Cross-curricular primary science, DT and geography workshops for KS2/junior children and their teachers. Design a house inspired by plants! |
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Place Making Workshops
Cross-curricular secondary geography, art and design, and citizenship workshops designed to explore the evolution of settlements from village to city. Help Shape find the next generation of urban designers and town planners. |
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ShapeWALKS
Two of the eight walks have been designed as a web based learning resource for children and teachers. These are "Tudor Cambridge" and "Victorian".
ShapeWALKS |
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Ecohouse
This sustainable exhibition continues to be popular with schools and environment groups. Anyone wishing to hire the Ecohouse for a public event, corporate hire or educational workshop can contact admin@shape-east.org.uk or telephone 01223 462606.
These resources are for use with the Ecohouse.
Ecohouse Quiz
Quiz Answers
Ecohouse Design Brief
Find out more about Ecohouse hire.
"[students] thoroughly enjoyed the experience of using the house and unanimously agreed that it had really helped them to understand the concept of sustainable living and how they could affect positive change in their own lives." ~Miss Gurvidi, Acting Assistant Principal, The Netherhall School |
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Space Explorers: Activity Ideas
‘Space Explorers’ is a project aimed at encouraging young people to explore and examine the places in which they live. This resource is a selection of activities suggested to (and in some cases trialled by) a group of architects/architectural assistants who have volunteered their time to run the project in schools across the North East. They are to be borrowed, stolen and adapted by anyone wishing to help young people make sense of the buildings, spaces and places in which they live.
Resource from Northern Architecture
www.northernarchitecture.com |
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Architectural Photography: Photographers' Tips
A series of simple but effective tips to help pupils make the most of their digital cameras when documenting architecture. Written by Louise Taylor and used to support teachers during a CPD Day held in September 2007.
Resource from Northern Architecture
www.northernarchitecture.com |
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ArchiTEXTS: Poetry Activity
An easy to use frame for writing poetry in response to a building, space or place. Written by Maureen Almond, this helpsheet outlines some simple steps in which event the most nervous writer can create a poem:
'The whole idea with this approach is to help students build a template for themselves on which they can ‘hang’ a poem. I think to ask people who are unused to writing poetry, simply to write a poem can be quite daunting. By the time they have ‘built a template’ most of the really hard work is done – they have done the thinking, creating and also in a way, the planning too. This technique can be applied no matter what the subject, all that is necessary is that you vary the questions to make them relevant.'
Resource from Northern Architecture
www.northernarchitecture.com |
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Drawing Buildings: Tips & Hints
A list of suggestions to help pupils get the most out of drawing buildings, spaces and places whilst on location. Written by artist Vicky Holbrough, the tips and hints focus on materials, composition, mark making and perspective.
Resource from Northern Architecture
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Questioning Architecture
Key Stages 2 - 5
Questioning Architecture is a simple resource aimed at encouraging pupils to understand and critique buildings, places and spaces. Use the question cards to initiate discussion and debate about the good, the bad and the ugly by using one of six starting points:
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People
- Place
- Space
- Shape
- Colour & Light
- Material
To use the resource, download and print on either A4 or A3 paper, cutting to size around the dotted lines. To create a handy set of cards for your pupils, punch a hole in the corner and thread with a piece of ribbon or a spare key ring.
Resource from Northern Architecture
www.northernarchitecture.com |
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Other Ideas
These are projects undertaken by other organisations that we think sound interesting and might help inspire you own work |
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Exploring Architecture: Teachers' Suggestions
This resource is a list of suggestions made by teachers during a training day held in September 2007. It outlines some ways in which architecture could be linked into the National Curriculum and become a stimulus for learning in and outside the classroom. Use the ideas to develop activities for your pupils and let us know how they went. Resource from Northern Architecture
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The Way We Live
The Way We Live involved architecture students from Newcastle University and local young people in a series of investigations into their environments.
The full colour publication, whilst not written as a toolkit or a curriculum resource, outlines the tools and techniques used during the project, which could easily be replicated in other learning situations. The publication outlines the project’s aims, activities and outcomes and is essential reading for anyone interested in identifying tried and tested tools and techniques for engaging young people in regeneration processes.
Resource from Northern Architecture
www.northernarchitecture.com
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Every Child Matters: Building for the future
This document sets out how Architecture and Built Environment Centres
can help you to use built environment education as a valuable and creative means of meeting the important Every Child Matters agenda.
Resource from The Architecture Centre, Bristol
www.architecturecentre.co.uk |
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