Live Project Reviews and Exhibition

Today marked the official end of the Live Projects, and we concluded the 6 weeks with a presentation/review and exhibition for the whole Masters in Architecture course and members of the public.

The Empty Shops Live Project had managed to borrow an empty department store in the heart of the city for a couple of days for the presentations and exhibitions. We managed to get the exhibition boards printed in time and mounted them alongside our models in the morning in the space we were allocated.

The boxes generated some interest - although some people tried to lift off the lids first!

Richard Hawson came to see the exhibition with a colleage from housing over lunchtime and we showed them a draft of the document and talked them through the exhibition. We suggested arranging a time to handover all of the information formally to Sheffield Homes in a couple of weeks, and Richard suggested we could also present the work to a Tenants and Residents Association (TARA).

The final few days

Becky and Emma carefully cut out all of the components of the miniPODs and began to organise people and furniture inside the boxes to create the designs. We took turns in peaking inside as they were completed one by one.

Hannah focussed on the panels and exhibition with Av, capturing the process of the live project from research to consultation to final proposals and Aditi and I processed all of the information for a document to handover to Sheffield Homes.

Installation vs. models

As a group we thought about how we could effectively present our ideas at the exhibition. Initially we thought about recreating one of our proposals 1:1 so that members of the public to enter the space and take part in one of the activities. However the logistics of this, in order to make it effective were challenging and we were conscious that we didn’t have that much time or resources to play with. Instead we decided to capture each of our proposals in a small model that members of the public could peep into.

How would this work?