Concerns 2016-17, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design Annual Review by Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

CONCERNS Birmingham School of Architecture and Design Annual Review 2016-17

CONCERNS Concern(s): verb (INVOLVE) Front Cover: Agnieszka Michalska BA (Hons) Architecture (RIBA Pt.1) Back Cover: Molly Barragan Grad Dip Landscape Architecture

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BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ANNUAL REVIEW 2016-17

Contents

Design Through The Scales BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture Grad Dip/ Pg Dip/ MA Landscape Architecture BA (Hons) Architecture (RIBA Pt. I) MArch Architecture (RIBA Pt. II) Pg Dip Architectural Practice (RIBA Pt. III) MA Zero Carbon Architecture & Retrofit Design MA Conservation of The Historic Environment BA (Hons) Interior Design MA Interior Design BA (Hons) Product & Furniture Design MA Product Design MA Design and Visualisation MA Design Management

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Introduction BSoAD Graduate Show BSoAD Annual School Awards RIBA BIM EXPO | aae BIM CAMP Association of Architectural Educators (aae) Research Co.LAB

4 Cristiano Ceccato (Zaha Hadid Architects) Keynote Speaker at BIM EXPO & aae BIM CAMP

Introduction

It’s been another exciting year as we continue to refine the identity of the renamed Birmingham School of Architecture and Design following the addition of the Three Dimensional Design courses in August 2015. These courses have been re-designed via the University’s Transforming the Curriculum process and from September 2017 we have replaced the current programmes with BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design, and BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design. Our new Superstudio concept embraces the exciting multi disciplinary nature of the School, offering all BA students the chance to learn skills from across our courses such as glass making, sandblasting, perspective drawing, and CAD, to name but a few. We show films at lunchtime (with popcorn from our very own popcorn maker), and have been privileged to have a number of guests run afternoon workshops and lectures, including alumnus Pierre D’Avoine, Simon Warren, and Tom Jestico. There have been a number of highlights this year such as the listing of our BA Architecture and Landscape programmes in the top 20 of the Guardian subject league tables and our Knowledge Hub project being awarded a National Urban Design Award with our project partner Node. In terms of student satisfaction our NSS scores were high across the board with Product Design at 94%. Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) scored at 100% for MA Design and Visualisation, MA Conservation of the Historic Environment, and PG/MA Landscape Architecture show that our Masters students are delighted with the education they receive here.

We’ve also welcomed a number of new colleagues, Maria Martinez Sanchez (Interior Design), Nick Irvin (MA Design Management), and Andy Hilton, Kasia Nawratek and Jemma Browne in Architecture and in the spirit of the School they have all made an impact already! We also said farewell to Dr Sue Dawes who retired from the University having worked here since 1978! Sue was a key member of the Ceramics and Glass team that evolved into 3DD and now Product Design. Thanks Sue for your dedicated service over all this time. This year we launched our own staff awards to recognise the excellent work of our team with Jason Nicholson scooping the top prize for his leadership of Product Design. Commendations went to Victoria Farrow for embracing the new School with her Applicant Visit Day organisation, Alessandro Columbano for his Enterprise work, and Russell Good for his leadership of MA Landscape. It was fantastic to see staff congratulate and celebrate the success of their colleagues, the sign of a true team. I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to the School this year including the core staff team, visiting tutors, specialist tutors, sponsors (especially Ibstock, Niyaa People, and Interface), volunteer critics, workshop staff, colleagues in ADM and across the University, and work placement practices who hosted over 100 of our Architecture, Landscape, and Interior Design students. We are privileged to have such support.

I hope that you enjoy the work - thank you. Professor Kevin W Singh Head of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

Welcome to Concerns 2016-17, our Annual Review which showcases the work of our students from across the whole School, capturing our design through the scales ethos.

2017 Graduate Show Events BSoAD End of Year Grad Show is always a fantastic time of year celebrating the achievements of all the students in the School. The Show is part of the wider Faculty celebrations, which in 2017 were all rolled into the Inspired Festival.

Passivhaus Basic Principles

1. Good levels of insulation with minimal thermal bridges

2. Passive solar gains and internal heat sources 3. Excellent level of airtightness

4. Good indoor air quality, provided by a whole house mechanical ventilation system with highly efficient heat recovery P

A The Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery system will be used in colder weather when the windows and skylights cannot be opened. The building has large amounts of insulation and high levels of airtightness which helps it achieve its passivhaus principles. C

B Minimal cold bridges keep the temperature consistent. C Some of the skylights open to allow for manual ventilation and airflow. D Triple glazing.

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Key events that the School were involved in were The Family Day, BCU Open Day and our own Events week that we run with our first year students. Over 600 families visited us and joined in with some fun taster activities based around the new HS2 Hub which is planned to be built outside the BCU Parkside building. With giant drawing, model making, virtual reality experiences and laser cutting workshops we gave children and their families a taste of some of the fascinating areas we work in. Staff and students worked together to show just how exciting our subjects could be to study at University, hopefully we’ll see many of the children return in ten years or so as students!

E Corrugated card insulation is inexpensive and has good thermal performance. It is durable but must be water tight.

F Large expanses of glass allow for large solar gains and minimal artificial lighting reducing the power use throughout the building. F

G The proximity to the Wyre Forest and surrounding fields is good for wellbeing.

J There are no radiators, but within the ground and upper floors underfloor heating is installed. The underfloor heating is installed within the concrete slab at ground level.

K To create comfortable conditions, the ceiling panels that direct the user which way to walk also act as buffering to maintain the noise levels.

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L All furnishings are made using a Camira Nettle Collection Traveller fabric which is made from nettles and sustainable to make the building more environmentally friendly.

Welcome to the eagerly anticipated end of year exhibition featuring the work of our Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, and Product Design students.

Our new Superstudio concept embraces the exciting multi disciplinary nature of the School, offering all BA students the chance to learn skills from across our courses such as glass making, sandblasting, perspective drawing, and CAD, to name but a few. We show films at lunchtime (with popcorn from our very own popcorn maker), and have been privileged to have a number of guests run afternoon workshops and lectures, including alumnus Pierre D’Avoine, Simon Warren, and Tom Jestico. There have been a number of highlights this year such as the listing of our BA Architecture and Landscape programmes in the top 20 of the Guardian subject league tables and our Knowledge Hub project being awarded a National Urban Design Award with our project partner Node. In terms of student satisfaction our NSS scores for Architecture, Landscape, and Product Design at 96%, 90%, and 92% respectively capture the quality of the student experience at degree level in the School, whilst a number of PTES scores at 100% for MA Design and Visualisation, MA Conservation of the Historic Environment, and PG/MA Landscape show that our Masters students are delighted with the education they receive here.

M Concrete screed and the concrete slab will help to act as thermal mass.

We said farewell to Dr Sue Dawes who retired from the University having worked here since 1978! Sue was a key member of the Ceramics and Glass team that evolved into 3DD and now Product Design. Thanks Sue for your dedicated service over all this time. This year we launched our own staff awards to recognise the excellent work of our team with Jason Nicholson scooping the top prize for his leadership of Product Design. Commendations went to Victoria Farrow for embracing the new School with her Applicant Visit Day organisation, Alessandro Columbano for his Enterprise work, and Russell Good for his leadership of MA Landscape. It was fantastic to see staff congratulate and celebrate the success of their colleagues, the sign of a true team. We’ve also welcomed a number of new colleagues, who, in the spirit of the School have already made their mark. Maria Martinez Sanchez has done a fantastic job leading second year Interiors, collaborating with numerous departments across the University, and re-booting our Erasmus programme to motivate numerous students to study abroad next year. Nick Irvin has joined the MA Design Management team and aside from his work in this area he is writing a new course option for BA students who are interested in the business side of design, as well as leading on the inaugural work placement scheme for our Interior Design students. Kasia Nawratek joined us from Plymouth University to lead second year BA Architecture and has developed the flavour and character of the year with a new focus on public buildings and experimentation. Andy Hilton was appointed to lead MArch year 1 and aside from running studios in both the BA and MArch he has made an impact on the organisation of the year including running the trip to New York which featured some real thrills in the shape of visits to Gensler, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and the new Medical Centre at Columbia University by DS+R. Finally, Jemma Browne was appointed to support History, Theory and Cultural Context across the School, focusing on working with BA students to appreciate the value and relevance of the subject area. Jemma also took on the huge task of organising and coordinating this end of year show, and I’m sure you will agree it’s a job well done.

Unfortunately we received the sad new that former member of staff John Kirwan passed away at Easter after a long illness. John held a number of key roles in the School at PG level including leading the original Historic Conservation course and made a big contribution to the School over many years. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to the School this year including the core staff team, visiting tutors, specialist tutors, volunteer critics, workshop staff, colleagues in ADM and across the University and work placement practices who hosted over 100 of our Architecture, Landscape and Interior Design students. We are privileged to have such support. Finally, thank you to the generous sponsors of prizes and events. There are far too many to mention here but special thanks as ever to Ibstock who continue to sponsor the MArch trip to New York, to Interface for their part sponsorship of the Summer Ball and to Niyaa People for being the main sponsor of this event. Also a special mention to our new Student Success Adviser Julia Bloomfield who alongside her day job of supporting students with any issues they face has done an amazing job coordinating the arrangements for the Summer Ball. I hope that you enjoy the work and incredible talent on display and take the opportunity to network with staff, students and colleagues and enjoy what has become THE not-to-miss event in the regional Architecture and Design calendar. Thank you. Professor Kevin W Singh Head of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

N Power is supplied from the landfill power plant behind the workshops.

O The ground source heat pump is connected to the plant room below ground. P Hidden gutters help to maintain the facade cladding and help to preserve the building’s landscape links.

Events Week BSoAD gives our students in first year a chance to get involved with the Show; this year we set them three briefs and they worked in teams across all the courses. Team BARchitecture designed and built the four bars for the Industry, Friends and Family Preview night, each was themed with the Show’s neon red colour, but had its own distinctive atmosphere. The Pop ‘til you Drop Team was tasked with creating a fantastic pop up pavilion to be used for the Family Day and the Preview night. They did it, it looked great and as we go to press…. it’s still standing! The final team devised a great series of activities for the Family day and a small team of staff and one of our Doctoral researchers camped out in there all day making beautiful models and crafts. The climax as always, is the Preview night itself; when it seems as if nearly every Design Practitioner from the Region and beyond descends upon the School to attend our Awards night, see the great showcase of Graduate work from the broad spectrum of design disciplines which make up our school, catch up with old friends and make new ones! Students, staff and all our partners work hard all year round and this event always proves to be a great opportunity to celebrate everyone’s achievements.

H Rainwater travels in the channels within the guttering.

I When the doors are closed the building will have high levels of airtightness to retain the heat from the underfloor heating and the solar gain.

Annual School Awards 2017 Title Winner Course

BSoAD Studentship Award Mozakir Ali BA (Hons) Architecture Birmingham & Five Counties Architectural Winner: Agnieszka Michalska BA (Hons) Architecture Association Trust Green Book Award Highly Commended: William Reeve BA (Hons) Architecture Commended Jessica Turner BA (Hons) Architecture Oscar Naddermeier Medal winner Myles Bailey BA (Hons) Architecture RIBA Drawing Prize Roxanna Cislariu BA (Hons) Architecture Niyaa People Award Charlotte Arnold BA (Hons) Architecture Associate Architects Prize Irena Andreea Dumitrascu MArch Architecture 3D Reid Award Marc Cheal MArch Architecture New York Photo Competition Sabaa Mehboob MArch Architecture George Jackson Travel Scholarship Thomas Hughes MArch Architecture Louisa Ann Ryland Award John Fisher MArch Architecture Louisa Ann Ryland Award Daniel Aubrey BA (Hons) Architecture Louisa Ann Ryland Award Chloe Chambers MArch Architecture Landscape Institute Midlands Branch John Knight Prize Joelle Darby BA (Hons) Landscape Arch Landscape Institute Midlands Branch John Knight Prize Nathan Beirne BA (Hons) Landscape Arch Eagle & Ball Landscape Design Competition Alison Harrison-Dean BA (Hons) Landscape Arch Eagle & Ball Landscape Design Competition Ross Redman-Schaffer BA (Hons) Landscape Arch Eagle & Ball Landscape Design Competition Karishma Ladva BA (Hons) Landscape Arch Eagle & Ball Landscape Design Competition Sona Maresova BA (Hons) Landscape Arch Pegasus Environmental Practice Prize Cherry Ying Sun BA (Hons) Product Design BSoAD Studentship Award Tom Howell-Jones BA (Hons) Product Design The Furniture Makers Furniture Design Book Award Kieran Clayton BA (Hons) Product Design Product Programme Award - Making Kieran Clayton BA (Hons) Product Design Staff Award - Most Improved Student Amanda Lund BA (Hons) Product Design Product Programme Award - Digital Making Asmah Mohd Jaafar BA (Hons) Product Design Presentation Skills Xin Peng BA (Hons) Product Design HILLE Educational Products Award 2017 Fanzhi Meng BA (Hons) Product Design HILLE Educational Products Award 2017 Commended Edward Howells BA (Hons) Product Design HILLE Educational Products Award 2017 Commended Raymond Linklater BA (Hons) Product Design 12

Title Winner Course

Materials & Making: Gold Chloe Edmonds BA (Hons) Interior Design Materials & Making: Silver Emmilie Weichmann BA (Hons) Interior Design Materials & Making: Bronze Megan Rathbone BA (Hons) Interior Design Leadership Emily East BA (Hons) Interior Design Concept Eilesh Rana BA (Hons) Interior Design Creativity & Communication Kassia Blackledge BA (Hons) Interior Design Resolution and Realisation Alex Morton BA (Hons) Interior Design Ripple Effect Sanna Ali BA (Hons) Interior Design Most inspiring Student Esther Manamike BA (Hons) Interior Design BSoAD Innovation, Sustainability, Re-Purpose Award Architecture: Winner Runner-Up Runner-Up

Daniel Aubrey Tom Bevan Myles Bailey

BSoAD Innovation, Sustainability, Re-Purpose Award Interior Design: Gold Silver Bronze

Chloe Edmonds Emmilie Weichmann Megan Rathbone

BSoAD Innovation, Sustainability, Re-Purpose Award Product Design: 1st Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize

Sane Mafa Jaini Shah Tom Howell-Jones

BSoAD Innovation, Sustainability, Re-Purpose Award Landscape Architecture: Winner Level 5 Level 4

Richard Fitter Nathan Beirne Alexandra Ford

Winner: Shortlist:

Jason Nicholson Victoria Farrow, Alessandro Columbano and Russell Good

Inaugural BSoAD Staff Contribution Award Winners:

RIBA BIM EXPO | aae BIM CAMP

Over 250 attendees from the built environment, including practising architects, students of architecture, interior design and landscape had the unique opportunity to hear from over 20 pioneers currently working in industry from across the UK including a keynote presentation from Cristiano Cecatto of Zaha Hadid Architects. Throughout the morning RIBA BIM Expo sessions, visitors selected the talks that were most suitable to their area of interest. Speakers included BIM representatives from across Glancy Nicholls, Heatherwick Studios, ADP Architecture, Kier Construction and more. Hays Recruitment also held built environment career sessions, including tips and feedback on CVs. In the afternoon, aae BIM Camp sessions from practitioners and BIM specialists, gave visitors the chance to participate in a BIM a CPD session, and the opportunity to gain a first-hand experience of BIM Level 2 training. This session provided current students with an insight into the type of activities they’ll be doing as they progress their careers beyond HE and into the built world and gave professionals an opportunity to build on their knowledge in BIM or explore how they may begin to incorporate the process within their own practices. “Birmingham’s inaugural RIBA BIM EXPO and aae BIM CAMP got 2017 off to a flying start.” Conor Nolan from the RIBA said afterwards. “It was great to see architects, developers and students from across the West Midlands come together to learn from these

BIM specialists and the feedback has been fantastic. The event gave a range of local practices a valuable opportunity to showcase and share their expertise whilst also raising students awareness of potential career opportunities locally.” Victoria Farrow, the event organiser for the day, added: “Having the opportunity to provide both students and practitioners with free access to such a rich body of information and knowledge has been fantastic and is very important. BIM is not something that the profession can choose to engage with or not. Simply put, we have to. The association of architectural educators and the RIBA found common ground in our agendas for learning and development and therefore to make this event happen and has been a great achievement. I hope that in future events, we can continue with our goals to make learning and advancing in BIM high on the agenda. I am incredibly proud to be able to offer this insight to my students at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design and to bring this opportunity to the door of practitioners. It was fantastic to invite speakers to the university to share their knowledge and in particular, Cristiano Cecatto of Zaha Hadid Architects, with the attendees of this event. Furthermore, it was an absolute privilege to be able to work alongside a group of 25 of my students from Birmingham School of Architecture and Design who helped make this event successful. Their contribution added an important flavour to the day. One of enthusiasm and engagement – qualities that I don’t think you can get enough of and something that continues to radiate from our school. Collaborating with industry to bring together innovative practices and technology is high on the agenda for us therefore to achieve this level of innovation in an open forum has been really desirable.” Plans are already gathering pace for the 2018 RIBA BIM Expo and aae Camp to be delivered across five Schools of Architecture across two days.

The Birmingham School of Architecture recently hosted the UK’s first Building Information Modeling (BIM) Expo and Camp. A collaboration between the Association of Academic Educators (aae) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) the event aimed to educate and showcase work from BIM Managers from across the West Midlands.

association of architectural educators (aae) 2016-17

As Chair of the aae I am pleased to be able report on another eventful and successful year. The 3rd aae conference under the theme research based education held at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL in April 2016 was a resounding success with over 130 delegates. Keynote speakers were Lesley Lokko, Achim Menges, Isakun Chincilla Moreno, Etienne Wenger. The proceedings and several video interviews are available at aae2016 Selected papers will be published in the aae journal Charrette. The most recent issue of Charrette Architectural Education in Scotland is available free online. The 4th aae international peer reviewed conference will be hosted by Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, Oxford, UK from 6 to 9 September 2017. ‘Architecture Connects: Strategies for the co-production of architectural knowledge’ develops the lively discourse around the themes of social engagement, live projects and design research. The conference is being organised in collaboration with Live Projects Network, designbuild Xchange, SEED Network, Centre for Public Interest Design, Design Corps, and db Exchange – international networks who share these concerns. These connections will expand the aae community of practice and promote the quality, relevance and diversity present in this area of contemporary architectural education.

The overall theme “Architecture Connects” will enable exploration of ways to create positive dialogue and collaboration between architectural educators, students, practitioners, researchers, educational bodies, local communities and other disciplines. By viewing architectural education as a linchpin between universities and society, the conference mission is to improve communication and contribute new knowledge that is of mutual benefit to all parties. Victoria Farrow, Secretary of the aae, organized the second BIM event, a joint event between the aae and RIBA at BCU in January 2017, which was attended by over 200 students and 150 staff and practitioners. BIM in Birmingham was officially launched this year along with the RIBA BIM Expo | aae BIM camp. Hannah Vowles Deputy Head of Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

Research This year has seen a major shift in the development of research within the School of Architecture and Design. In the run up to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment in 2020-21 the school has arranged some new focused research groups that sit alongside the established areas of Well-Being, Zero Carbon Retrofit and Urban Design Research. These include Design Pedagogy, Cultural Context, and Landscape Research centered on the introduction of High Speed 2 (HS2). As a result of these changes many of our PhD students are beginning to see the benefits of regular research seminars that sit alongside our Masters programmes. The end of year exhibition showcased some of the key research themes currently being investigated by staff, many of which have emerged as a result of these new initiatives.

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Final Brick 1

The production of prototype bricks became much faster due to using the clamp system. To reduce air bubble, the bag of clay was hit against the floor repeatedly. (See A). Different methods were used to ensure the clay filled the mold entirely by pressing with fists (See B) or pushing with rolling pins (See C, D).

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The next techniques to master were the separating of the wood from the clay so that the edges stayed sharp. (See E, F). However in some instances excessive amounts of sand were used and edges did not come out sharp. (See G, H).

3. thermal templates

- Systems are applied to your rooms through the Thermal templates

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- For each room you have the (system) tab - From this tab you specify which system your room would have (if you created more than one system earlier) Above: Existing platform

- If you have already applied the thermal templates to your rooms, adjustments will be automatically applied to them and there is no need to re-apply them.

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Final Prototype

Modern Gazetteer: Expanded City

Transit Spaces

Production Show: Make Do

4. lighting analysis Knowledge Exchange Globally

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M&E and sustainable design Exchange Knowledge

• Corde unites architecture, structural and civil engineering, • We utilise BIM to create responsive and integrated design solutions • We avoid traditional ‘silos’ of expertise. Instead, we bring our staff together around a table from the start

SITE ANALYSIS Looking at the existing site and Digbeth as a whole. We analysed the connection to the city center, the main entrance points to Digbeth and the existing landmarks/ attractions.

• BIM models are adapted and adjusted in realtime, allowing our teams to progress rapidly • Integrated building data allows us to test and analyse performance, reducing risk and improving quality and deliverability. • We bring collective expertise to large and complex projects in both the public and private sectors • With ‘BIM Hubs’ in studios located throughout the UK, we are able to deliver a local service to clients nationwide. (CORDE, 2017)

I want to belive I live in a single world. (...) The imaginary comes to me with as much force as the real, the remembered with has much force as the immediate. City, Roy Fisher

Free City: Myths of the Edgeland

Destination Wayfinding

JADE STURMEY

Co.Lab Collaborative Laboratory is an inter-disciplinary architecture & design initiative within the school. We explore issues of liveness: the relevancy of the creative arts and all its disciplinarities. We like to challenge the limits and crossovers between these disciplines – developing new creative practices in order to explore contemporary issues that affect our urbanised contexts. Projects this year have involved students from BA (Hons) Architecture, BA (Hons) Landscape, MArch Architecture, with further contributions from BA (Hons) English & Creative Writing and BA (Hons) Visual Communication. find us online: w: birmingham-colab.org fb: facebook.com/birmingham.colab tw: @bham_colab bl: http://liveprojectsnetwork.org/

Co.Lab projects this year: Production Show: Make Do partner: Eastside Projects + Ash & Lacy Knowledge Exchange partner: Part-time Students’ own practices Modern Gazetteer: Expanded City partner: RIBA West Midlands Zero Carbon partner: BCU Research Destination Wayfinding partner: Gensler Brick Assembly partner: Ibstock 100 Stories partner: Birmingham Museums Trust Transit Spaces partner: BCU Research Latrine Dream partner: Choral Studio + Zigong City Authority

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Design Through The Scales

Landscape Architecture Architecture Interior Design Product & Furniture Design Design & Visualisation Design Management

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Landscape Architecture

BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture The graduate show demonstrated the broad range of talent and ideas coming out of the BA in Landscape Architecture this year. This was particularly demonstrated by two award winning projects, the Atkins Design award winner, that tested and experimented with preconceptions and distractions in the modern urban experience and the Landscape Institute’s John Knight prize, which explored approaches to teaching children global environmental lessons through narrative playscapes. Mention should also go to the three students in each year who won the prize for innovative use of materials in their construction projects. Getting to know each other across the years, students from BA years one through to three and the MA Landscape Architecture course spent several days on a group selected study trip to experience changing contexts in Budapest. From a bustling urban centre to quiet localised outskirts, looking at design approaches and cultural contextual studies and acting as the learned tourist: unique sights, sounds and tastes for later design inspiration. Students eagerly shared their experiences, discussing new found meanings and ideas. In Year 2, the students then went into practice for two weeks, joining a local or national firm, to support with their work. It was immediately obvious on their return, the excitement they had chatting to each other. A simple discussion on what they had done, the ins and outs of real world work, everyone’s experience was completely different and uniquely valuable in its own way. Being able to share this with those who’d had a similar experience was an incredibly valuable and validating experience. We were particularly proud of a number of students who have kept contact with their placement, some even working on over the summer and into their third year.

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Co;Lab: Wayfinding HS2

ARUP Landscape Team

CAD DRAWING - Planting plan

Through the course, students have explored and developed their skills in communication of ideas and we have seen how these skills become more and more integrated, using and combining technical skills in hand drawing and use of industry graphics, CAD programmes as well as personal presentation to enhance and promote their inspirational and thought-provoking solutions. At the starting point of Year 3, students were asked to explore bespoke ideas, not limiting their openminded exploration, but connecting their increasingly in-depth research to their dynamic practice. Might there be new ways to innovate their own process, through experimentation and expectation of interaction with a wider audience? The brief was not to find the best design solution for a site, but to find the best site for the kind of design opportunity. Asked to tell a story, combining the abstract, the pragmatic, the current social and historical values and character. Then taking this forward, refined and tested ideas against a variety of needs relating

to the site and a desire to maximise the value for users and ecologies, realised, with both living and manufactured components, the soft green planting and the hard variety of constructed elements, with drawings and specifications which could be taken by a contractor to move the project from theory into a real world outcome. Lucas Hughes Programme Director BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture Tutors: Lucas Hughes Eccles Ng Adam Carthy Sam Roberts Simon Ronan Dr Ying Li Specialist / Guest Lecturers Claire Hunt Graham Woodward John Newman Paj Valley Robert Myres Rae Luckett

In similar ways, through collaborations with other courses, industry partners and public stakeholders, students expanded their appreciation of key influences on design, how individual practice, client expectations, political systems and a general public can effect on their individual design process. At the other end of the process, an enhanced appreciation of detailed realisation was gained, through first-hand experience working with a bricklaying professional, providing an important lesson about the necessities and realities of turning architectural drawings into built construction.

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Joseff Greening

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Wetland zone Structural design

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Grad Dip/Pg Dip/MA Landscape Architecture This academic year is one of transition, it is the last year of the current Graduate Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma / MA in Landscape Architecture in their current formats and staff have been imaginatively redesigning a new MA Landscape Architecture under a University ‘ transforming the

curriculum ‘ strategy . This new programme which incorporates a refreshed conversion course in year 1 and year 2 of the MA LA brings new educational opportunities and challenges and will run from October 2017.

Grad Dip Landscape Architecture The Graduate Diploma continued to offer the first stage of a route into Professional Landscape Architecture practice for students with an appropriate Undergraduate degree. Its various taught components are intended to offer a ‘foundation’ in the fundamentals of Landscape Architecture in terms of design projects which introduce theory, process , scale and space and apply these, via a design brief, to a series of real sites. Landscape history and theory, technical and land sciences and digital and analogue means of representation also form part of the wideranging content of the Programme.

Each year we have a live project with a client and this year we have responded to the challenges from a design brief provided by Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust to design an experiential bridge in a woodland glade in the grounds of Hartlebury Castle. This collaborative project engaged the students with structural engineering principles, materials and developing a concept that evolved through the design process into functional art. The final presentations were held recently and HCPT committee were impressed with the diversity of ideas and selected Phil Smith’s bridge for taking forward to the next funding stage.

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Kika Vernon

Chantelle Harris

Megan Lloyd

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Pg Dip/MA Landscape Architecture Sustainable Landscape Planning

Lecture Series

Whilst the Birmingham and West Midlands conurbation forms the basis for many projects within the Programme, it’s recognised that the wider landscape around and between urban settlements is a significant area under pressure and subject to contention regarding agricultural production, biodiversity, residential and retail development, conservation.

This public lecture series has continued to feature a range of highly experienced, local, national and international visiting tutors giving students the opportunity to engage with some of the most eminent practitioners and policy-makers from across the world.

This ‘Planning’ scale of design intervention is now increasingly recognised and forms the basis for the Landscape Institute’s recently expanded ‘Areas of Practice’ These loci, the increasing pressure for residential and employment opportunities require spatial landscape planning at a large and comprehensive scale and this Project offers students the opportunity to engage with these scales of landscape and settlements as an exemplar of their problems and opportunities. The Design Process Studios The Design Process Studios at Postgraduate level are designed to develop artistic practice and critical visual skill; the interpretative and transformative studies are given a clear purpose. As students gradually become more aesthetically aware in the studio, wellestablished myths separating language from emotions and art from intelligence begin to evaporate. Students gain confidence and fluency in the expression of ideas in form and interpreting form through ideas.

Lectures in 2016-17 have included: Merrick Denton Thompson PLI (UK), Paj Valley and Graham Woodward ( Atkins ), Elaine Dring ( Severn Trent River Authority ), Kay Hawkins ( HBA Environment ), Chris Parry ( Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust ). The Thesis Design Project The Thesis Design Project offers students the opportunity to either undertake a ‘given’ project reflecting current staff research / professional practice or to initiate and develop a project that reflects their own interests and their emerging ‘position’ in response to the challenges of climate change, city development and regeneration, biodiversity, resource management. Via innovative and comprehensive proposals that cover the full range of professional skills and abilities from brief development, research, analysis, critique and concept to technical resolution and implementation. Work And Practice

In terms of practice and employment, we see an increasing demand for professionally qualified Landscape Architects both in the UK and further afield.

Professional Matters Mark Cowell was a member of the Panel that recently undertook the quinquennial updating of the Quality Assurance Agency’s Subject Benchmark for Landscape Architecture. He was also a member of the two previous Subject Benchmark Panels. The new Subject Benchmark was published by the QAA in July. In his role as Subject Leader for Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture and Design, Mark Cowell was invited to become a member of the Landscape Institute’s Education and Membership Committee during 2015 and has recently joined the L.I’s Accreditation Sub-Committee, where he will be involved in the various process by which the Institute professionally accredits Courses in Landscape Architecture and related disciplines, such as Landscape Planning and Urban Design. Mark Cowell acted as Academic Adviser to the recently- accredited Professional MA in Landscape Architecture at the University of East London From 2016-17, the Landscape Institute will be moving to a ‘triennial’ system of renewing

professional accreditation for Landscape Architecture Programmes. Whilst this will still involve annual renewal on an ongoing basis, the need for only a triennial reporting system will significantly reduce the administrative workload for both School staff and the members of the Programme’s Professional Review Group. Professor Kathryn Moore PPLI was elected President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) in 2014. A member of the HS2 Independent Design Review Panel for HS2 Ltd, she is a founding partner and member of the 2017 World Design Summit Organisation Steering committee chaired by the Rt Hon Sheila Copps (former Deputy President of Canada). A member of the BCU Conferment Panel, she is a specialist advisor to the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (2013), was a member of the RIBA Planning Group and a member of IFLA (Europe) Education group from 2012, joined the Board of Landscape Architecture Europe (LAE) and has been the chair of the IFLA working Group for a UNESCO International Landscape Convention since 2010. Other professional appointments include acting as a CABE Regional Advisor and board member of MADE since 2008. A member of the Design Research Society and board member of the Landscape Foundation, she is Past President of the Landscape Institute (2004-6). She has published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. Her book Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design (2010) provides the basis for critical, artistic discourse. Her teaching, research and practice, set within landscape architecture have clear implications

Current and recent graduates of the Programmes are working in: • Regional, national and international landscape practices • Regional, national and international multidisciplinary practices • Universities and the Higher Education Sector. • Local government practice. • Policy roles within national government • Directors / Principles of their own practices.

for architecture, planning, urban design and other art and design disciplines, in addition to philosophy, aesthetics and education more generally. Chair of the pilot design review panel for the High Speed 2 (HS2) landscape guidelines, she has taken a lead role in redefining the relationship between landscape, culture and governance, finance, health and community engagement within the context of the Birmingham region. The HS2 Landscape Vision (HS2LV) initiative she is developing, described as being “…in the spirit of all the great landscape evolutions in the country, seizing an opportunity to reinvent and rekindle the connection between the people and the countryside in a way not seen for decades” by Andrew Grant, Grant Associates, (winner of The RIBA Lubetkin Prize in 2013), is of international interest.

with his interest in the role of natural systems and ecology in the design process. Russell is also an External Examiner for the undergraduate Landscape and Garden Design courses at Writtle School of Design.

Russell Good is the current MA LA programme director and represents BCU on the Landscape Institute Midlands branch committee, and this ensures connectivity between practice and students. Russell has contributed to a European Research project funded investigating the role of Urban Allotment gardens and their contribution to the fabric of urban living and is a lead author contributing to the published book European Allotment Gardens . He also represents BCU on the board of the Birmingham’s Local Nature Partnership, this provides an interface

Russell Good Programme Director, MA Landscape Architecture

Thank you I would like to thank all the practices and professional bodies and organisations that have worked with us this year it so important to have this collaboration and provide an interface with our community where we can share skills, problems and challenges with our students and with your support we are able to facilitate excellent experiences with out partners and we look forward to working closely with you again next year.

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BA (Hons) Architecture RIBA (Pt I)

We began the new academic year with mobilising agendas and clear themes for Year 1, 2 and 3: Principles - Process â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Exploration. These themes would shape our studios and focus our attention on a complexity appropriate to each level of the programme towards the latter part of 2016. From the beginning of 2017, we would looked to explore projects and finish the year with modules in Design Resolution 1, 2 and 3. Year 1 allows new students to gently embark on their journey into architectural education by learning and discovering its basic principles. The first year students have completed many exciting projects and continue to explore new design and communication techniques through their designs, which grow in complexity as they advance through the exercises. Building skills in hand drawing, sketching, orthographics, model making, CAD in 2 and 3 dimensions, nurbs modelling and rendering, firstyear students enjoy gathering a range of different presentation and representation techniques to gain confidence in communicating ideas. Documenting this journey together with their design development process online via blogs provides the group a good foundation for portfolios. The quality of the students work has been commended by the RIBA during the mid term visit together with the external examiners, who described the work as â&#x20AC;&#x153;phenomenonal for first year levelâ&#x20AC;?. The students presentations have also been complimented widely on Twitter.

Projects in Year 1 are linked appropriately to technology and cultural context modules. This pattern repeats itself at Year 2 and Year 3 where

students are encouraged to feel confident having already practised similar ways of working in the previous years. As each student moves steadily through each stage of their course, building upon previously established ideals that continue to be reinforced and stretched. With new confidences, Year 2 students embrace the architectural design process. Students are exposed to real life practice scenarios, which are enriched by time spent in work placements and modules such as Co.Lab, which provides a vehicle for collaboration and experimentation. As a lively and active part of the programme the cohort gain better understanding of their place within the world of architecture. Working with engineering students from the University of Birmingham alongside design studio projects which require consideration of environmental design, communities, urban space and the public realm, the programme created is a solid stepping stone towards Year 3. Year 2 culminates with a Pecha Kucha and a celebration of Praxis work, a new module to deliver teaching in practice, management and law. In the final year, the programme requires more independence from students. The suite of modules including cultural context, technology and design studio, allows students to discover their own values, set agendas and put forward more complex design proposals both conceptually and technically. Three design studio units encourage production and the exploration of architectural schemes, which have been detailed to an appropriate level for third year students. Preparing the cohort further for professional practice following their experiences in

From the beginning of the course, a high emphasis is placed on students making their own choices. Upon departure from the university, the cohort is ready to embark on whatever challenge should present itself when in the world of work. Victoria Farrow Programme Director BA (Hons) Architecture

1st Year induction event at Glenn Howells Architects, Birmingham

Tutors: Victoria Farrow Jemma Browne Tom Tebby Ollie Chapman Joan Kerr Chris Maloney Matthew Turner Suzy Wong Kasia Nawratek Catherine Watton Holly Doron Jennifer Chen

Alessandro Columbano Andy Hilton Matt Lucas Anna Parker Rob Jones Rebecca Walker Satwant Saggu Paul Wakelam Jim Sloan Jieling Xiao David Sharpe Christian Frost Ian Shepherd

Year 2, Year 3 promotes creative thinking, furthering confidences and constructs and environment for decision-making.

1st Year site survey, Eastside, Birmingham

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Year 3 Design is divided into four distinct studio groups led by a tutor with support from technology tutors and visiting critics. Each studio responds to this year’s overarching theme of identity. All Studio were located in Bewdley, Worcestershire as it prepares itself for the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth. The Georgian town has a long historical relationship with respected polymath, and his legacy in craftsmanship remains strong to this day.

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Students initially investigate studio-specific design processes before adapting a brief dedicated to an art centre and ‘Festival of Making’ hub, to be inaugurated in 2019, celebrating Ruskin’s legacy in the region.

All sites of investigations assume a speculative approach on the transformation of urban conditions of the town and nearby Wyre Forest. Even thought the valley originated from a rural geographic feature, the studio projects reside in an emerging context of a picturesque but static rural/urban fringe. The challenge to students was to explore how architectural proposals can bring liveable and dynamic urban spaces in response to a conspicuous historical context.

Studio: Formation

Studio Formation: Using a diagrammatic method to blur the traditional binary relationships found within architecture such as solid and void, figure and ground, structure and space, inside and outside, urban form and landscape. Tutors: Andy Hilton Tech tutor: Satwant Saggu

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Studio Move: The imagined and re-imagined stories of spaces and structures in dynamic sequences around a contemporary gallery, Ruskin archive and collection display alongside the Festival of Making. Tutors: Alessandro Columbano Tech tutor: Rebecca Walker

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The structure of the MArch at Birmingham School of Architecture and Design empowers our students to own their learning and development – they are given the choice of the four design studios whose excellent work is illustrated here; they develop their own area of research and practice through a special study; the Co.Lab projects allow them to select from a range of outward facing opportunities that helps build formal and informal networks beyond the school; and professional practice and superstudio introduces them to industry practitioners and standards. In this way, we celebrate the diversity of our students, their backgrounds and ambitions, reflecting the region and position of the School of Architecture and Design. In September we welcomed Andy Hilton as Year 5 and part-time student leader across studios. Part-time

students make up half of our student cohort and are a fully integrated part of our student community. Andy also led Scarcity with Matt Lucas, and has played an instrumental role in developing a number of strategies across the course. External engagement from practices and specialists reflects the autonomy awarded to studios in delivering a bespoke education to our students. Specialist critics and lecturers have included; Studio Plastic - lecture from Prof Sabrina Rahman on Red Vienna and the Werkbundsiedlung, risograph printing workshop with Rope Press, visiting critics Hana Loftus of HAT Projects, Shumi Bose of Central St.Martin’s and Kasia Nawratek of BSoAD. Studio 3 – visiting critic Rod Heyes of Caruso St.John, graduates Joelle Bolt, Katie Miller of BPN Architects,

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Other network opportunities for students from across the course have included lectures/seminars from; Joe Kempsey Fagg, D5 Architects Anna Parker, Intervention Architecture Simon Jesson, Glancy Nicholls Tom Jestico, Jestico + Wiles Simon Warren, Leeds Beckett School of Architecture Pierre D’Avoine, Pierre D’Avoine Architects

In addition, members of Studio Plastic have led a seminar on Housing and the Commons at Eastside Projects in Birmingham as part of ongoing Production Show, and students of Studio Scarcity have returned to Gibraltar to present their research and work in public. Making at scale remains central to our delivery, particularly in final year tectonics. Students have this year used the wood, metal and ceramics and glass workshops along with other processes in stonemasonry, and externally in brick manufacture where a student related his special study to the thesis project in exploring materials.

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and Adam Creswell of John Thompson and Partners Studio Scarcity – visiting critic and lecturer Camillo Boano of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, graduates Jay Rajpra of Spaceplay, and Mark Rousseau BPN Architects, Studio Fable – Jonathan Tuckey of Jonathan Tuckey Architects, Rhys Jones of Jestico+Wiles, Pau Baget, Neil Rose of Broadway Malyan.

Co.Lab projects this year included; • • • • • • • • •

100 Stories, partner Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Trust. Brick Assembly, partner Ibstock Brick. Free City of Birmingham, partner School of English and Tom Keeley. Zero Carbon Design and Retrofit, partner MA Zero Carbon Design and Retrofit. Transit Spaces, partner HS2. The Modern Gazetteer, partners RIBA WM with Scan the World, &Model Gallery Leeds. Production Show: Make Do Type, partner Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Latrine Dreams, partner Water.org. Knowledge Exchange, multiple partners in practices of part time students as a pilot scheme to give greater recognition to work undertaken in and with practices.

Further details can be found at birmingham-colab.org Special Study, gives students an opportunity to choose between a conventional written dissertation or a practice based and academically referenced piece of work. The latter is seen as an extension of the Co.Lab module and offers students the opportunity to develop their own practice. We hope you enjoy the selection of work shown here. If you’d like to know more about the course or studios, please do not hesitate to contact me at the address below. Mike Dring MArch Architecture Programme Director

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Our Commons suggests two different branches of rivalrous and non-rivalrous conditions, the commons acting as a resource to which the community has a collective right. Rivalrous commons are those that can be accessed by a number of people but that are finite. Non-rivalrous commons cannot be depleted, goods may be consumed by many at the same time for example, sharing knowledge.

Bilston Commons is an urban framework for the site in Bilston previously earmarked for the urban village, a programme invested in a diverse range of approaches to housing to address the social, economic and physical needs of residents. Developed from a cooperative planning process involving residents, the urban framework sets out to redress the socio-economic balance. Landscape fields at different scales accommodate a social mixing of various cultural and social backgrounds. A variety of permeable edges that allows transitions between fields encourages pedestrians or cyclists to be drawn to the proposed area but also to stitch Bilston’s misplaced spine into an active field of new living patterns. The commons are realms of free movement of wilderness, commerce, enclosures and historical terrains. Through our strategic interventions such as the commons and a variety of housing models, a selection of which are shown here, we hope to tackle issues relating to social mixing, citizen participatory roles where civilians can exercise their rights to public space, and developing and integrating alternative transport choices seeking a reduction in the use of the private motor vehicle. Studio tutors; Mike Dring Rob Annable, Axis Design Architects Matt Hayes, Architype

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In 1944, the town council of Bilston took the unlikely decision to invite Austrian émigré Otto Neurath to be its ‘happiness’ consultant for a new housing development called Stowlawn, in an attempt to reinvent a town scarred by years of coal mining and pollution from blast furnaces and factories as a thriving community. Neurath, an economist and philosopher of the Red Vienna era, believed that architecture and mass housing could perform important political as well as material functions; the design and construction of new forms of collective dwelling spaces that not only provided shelter but also fostered new forms of socialised urban living could be an important factor in the gradual socialisation of the economy as a whole. (Blau, p.233) For 2016/17 the Studio Plastic infrastructure fiction imagined a new subsidised housing strategy for Bilston Commons ©©. Learning from Neurath’s ambitious plan for happiness, Bilston Commons ©© aims to promote social justice, sustainability and happy lives, and the conditions necessary for the commons to thrive.

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Tectonics helps to explore the built fabric through making. Selected pieces of key project areas are built to selected scale to experience the process of the making and understanding of detailing. The Water Edge site on a flood zone 3 area by the brook is highly susceptible to water damage, hence the concrete structures are erect and light weight timber housing and communal areas are cantilevered off the load bearing concrete. To soften the harsh concrete wood print is selected. Casts are built on site for concrete to be poured in. To compensate inaccuracies of human building manufactured steel rails are positioned in place to receive pre-cut glulam beams.

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“All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts.” -Ivan Chtcheglov This year is the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, a catastrophic inferno that ravaged the capital. However, the resulting devastation paved the way for the possibility of enormous changes for architecture and urbanism. Sir Christopher Wren’s masterplan for rebuilding London re-imagined the city re-shaped along Renaissance urban ideals that were evolving across Europe, one that was configured around wide monumental boulevards and radial piazzas, however the more pragmatic response of rebuilding upon the pre-existing street plan was instead implemented. Thus began a tradition of relentless cycles of destruction and development. London has since become a strange and unique city produced by the combination of catastrophic events, extreme design (iconic) and non-design, all overlaid the medieval streets and alleyways etched into the ground for millennia. In the context of Brexit, uncertain political and financial climates, the worsening housing crisis and the cultural and social hollowing out of London’s core, like Wren, we have sought to explore the urban and architectural possibilities and opportunities presented by catastrophe. This year we have sited our projects in the City of London. A place of modern myth that revolves around financial might, it is now a mono-cultural place where people only go to work- the most urban part of the UK, yet deserted in the evenings and weekends. Barely 5,000 people live in the City, and the Corporation of London restricts this number so that the city remains in control of business interests.

For centuries, the city’s skyline was dominated by its church spires, telling us of a society and culture which once held faith at it’s centre. Equally today, scattered across London, monumental brutalist buildings also appear to stand as relics to a bygone time and place which embraced the lost ideology of post-war Modernism. Now the City is now synonymous with enclosed ‘public’ spaces, the financial markets and their ‘iconic’ monuments, squeezed awkwardly and tightly on the medieval street plan. Acknowledging that London has always been a centre of trade and financial exchange, drawing much of its power and identity from this, we have asked how can these dynamics be reconciled with the constituent parts essential for a culturally, socially, politically and economically sustainable urban experience- a place to live, work, worship and socialise. Who is the city for? What is the role of architecture is this reconciliation? What should we monumentalise today? Interrogating the street and the square, this year our students have worked from 1:1 details through to ensembles of buildings to transform a small piece of city, proposing the re-population of the Square Mile. No longer a city dedicated to the financial markets, instead we have imagined a place which will contain all the activities and buildings associated with metropolitan urbanism. In addition, our students have proposed complex and layered building programmes that challenge and expand familiar assumptions about urban life, programmes that contribute to a socially, culturally and politically vibrant city. Tutors: Alexis Germanos, Nic Howett Julie Widowson (technology tutor), Neil Rose (Broadway Malayan), Jonathan Tuckey (Jonathan Tuckey Architects), Rhys Jones, Pau Bajet, Mark Hopkinson & Colin Way 119

Resurgam: A City From The Ashes

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in looking forward with critical vision and creativity by learning about the forces that create, break and transform the urban condition. We want to encourage a discourse with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cities, their policies, narratives, situations and futures, and critique these with the rigor required. We are grounded by the reality of the situation but freed by the enormity of possibility.

In Summer 2016 the UK held a historic referendum and subsequently voted to leave the EU. This will have profound implications on our communities, economy, environment and even our identity. Critics argue that our economy will be pushed further into recession and our communities will become more divided, whilst proponents claim that it will free our society from regulation and open up new partnerships to much wider parts of the world. Using this deeply contested socio-economic condition as a backdrop for analysis we have selected 2 cities that define both extremes of public opinion. Walsall, in the West Midlands which voted leave with an overwhelming majority of 68%, some wards going as high at 78% and Gibraltar, voting overwhelmingly to remain with 96% of the vote. Students used a series of theoretical concepts such as Power, Citizenship, Identity and Resilience to explore and analyse the case study areas and to test and speculate about the future of post-brexit development. Students will use these themes to navigate a path of research through the 2 cities and will identify critical spatial conditions that reveal, expose or challenge these categories. Using a broad range of qualitative research methods the spatial conditions revealed by our students included contested, transformative, transgressive and precarious forms of space in order to develop a series of urban strategies for the study areas. Tutors: Matthew Lucas Andrew Hilton 127

For the last 20 years, the architectural profession has been complicit with the ideology of late capitalism, assuming that the economic forces of growth and expansion are the only means by which society can develop and prosper. We now face multiple crises that raise significant questions about whether a future of unlimited growth is not only possible but is actually advisable. Uncontrolled neoliberal urbanisation, devastating climate change, civil unrest, mass migration, crushing economic austerity, rampant consumerist ideologies, spiralling land values, deep social inequality, polar economic structures, mass media propaganda, nationalist political agendas, identity conflict, diminishing social agency and aggressive foreign policies are shaping a complex world at an alarming rate. As architects we will be complicit in shaping and operating in this global environment we have to make choices about the type of future that we want, but also the type of future we can actually achieve. Now in its 9th year, Scarcity studio offers a series of alternate voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contemporary urban life and trying to find visions, techniques, methods and resilient models of development to comprehend and navigate this complex, contested environment.

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‘It depends on those who pass Whether I am a tomb or treasure Whether I speak or am silent The choice is yours alone Friend, do not enter without desire’ Paul Valéry Inscription on the façade of the Palais Chaillot, Paris The British coastline is a unique and marvellous asset. Varying from east to west, the rugged landscape that defines this island at its perimeter enjoys a plethora of conditions. Beyond the picturesque shorelines adjacent to gravity defying cliffs, near secluded havens, or beside industrial ports, the land is peppered with a very British phenomenon: the British coastal resort - our seaside town. Once alive with thriving hotels, bustling cinemas, elegant spas, amusements and donkey rides the seaside town was continually activated by crowds and supported by an architecture which reflected the recreation and escapism of the place. However, following the social and economic decline of the late twentieth century, and the expanding markets for holidays abroad, it now appears to represent a lost historical condition offering a tired fragment of the modern holiday. As a result of this decline the broader conditions that support everyday British coastal resorts are suffering. Morecambe is an example of these conditions Coupled with this image crisis, more recently, the growth and stability of many seaside towns has been undermined by inconsistent regeneration proposals that only target tourists’ immediate needs or respond to short-term fluctuating economic conditions. This year, Studio 3 have challenged the modern day notoriety of the British seaside town that is currently buoyed by these insubstantial development strategies and re-imagined a more prosperous future around which people can live, work, relax or retire.

The idea and use of ornament is central to the architectural legacy of Britain’s seaside towns. Establishing the theme somewhere between escape and embodiment, succeeding generations of architects developed decorative programmes that often defied the growing rationalist sensibilities of modernity. These programmes can be seen in some of the buildings constructed in Morecambe during the height of its popularity. Buildings such as the Wintergardens, which features a bold Dutch gable and delicate faience interior, and the Midland Hotel, a prominent piece of 30’s Art Deco architecture, exist to remind visitors and locals of the town’s heyday. The inside out approach taken by Studio 3 this year, looking first at coastal rooms and then at the buildings that house them, allowed us to develop a greater tectonic understanding of the linings that have afforded pleasure and delight within opulent coastal structures. This year, Studio 3 would like to thank the following for their contributions in developing the studio agenda and providing invaluable guidance to the students: Tutors: Christian Frost Holly Galbraith Shaun Young Visiting critics: Rod Heyes, Caruso St John Architects; Ingrid Petit, Feilden Fowles Architects; Adam Creswell, JTP Architects; Joelle Bolt, BPN Architects; Katie Miller, BPN Architects; Maureen Mitchell, NHS Tour guides: Philippe Brancaz, Notre-Dame du Raincy Jenny Dupuis, Musee les Arts Decoratifs Furthermore, we would like to offer extended thanks to the specialists, engineers, ceramicists, glass makers, enamellers and workshop support staff who have enriched the students’ learning throughout the year.

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PG Dip Architecture (RIBA PT III)

This professional practice course can be commenced following 24 months’ relevant practice experience and includes personal reflection, a case study, practice and professional examination and an oral exam.

Tutors: Ian Shepherd Anthony Clerici Invited Speakers:

The course duration is two years, however, can be completed within 10 months. Enrolment takes place in the autumn and spring of each year. The course that prepares students for the exams is delivered through a number of two-day modules at the School, spread over several months and leading to the oral exam in either December or June. This fully accredited course covers the criteria set down by the Architects Registration Board and adopted by the RIBA, giving exemption from the RIBA Part III examination. On completion, successful candidates can register with the ARB entitling them to use the title ‘Architect’. They can also apply for chartered membership of RIBA. The course aims to provide education in architectural practice that provide skills, knowledge and understanding that are not only for the purposes of professional qualification but that can be taken forward in to practice to form the basis of life-long learning and professional development. To achieve this, the course provides students with: • Knowledge and support for professional experience to enable students to satisfactorily complete the final examination and join the ARB. • Ability to act in a professional manner and in accordance with the codes and standards of the profession. • Critical understanding of the requirements of the legal framework for practice, practice management and construction procurement. • Ability to identify good practice and excellence and adopt it in their professional life. • Ability to identify their future learning needs and the opportunities of specialisation and diversification in their careers. 142

The Programme Director will provide guidance and support throughout the course.

Michael Dunn Michael Hardiman John Jacobs Walter Menteth Robin Nicholson Bob Pritchard Matt Lucas Sarah Parker Lorna Parsons David Simpson/ Chris Johnston Rachel Hobbis Tom Taylor Hans Haenlein Anthony Lavers Kevin Singh

Professional Examiners

Beyond Graduation

Madeleine Dring - D5 Architects LLP Paul Mulligan - BDP Birmingham Helen Rea - Glazzard Architects Ltd John Norfolk - Associated Architects Daniel Mulligan - Glen Howells Architects Amanda Harmer - Harmer Fitz Architects Robert Hopkins – AHR Manchester Amanda Jones - Troyka Associates Ltd Bob Ghosh - K4 Architects Paul Hewes - IBI Group Phil Cole - Weedon Architects Sandy Greenhill - Vivid Architects Ltd Satwinder Samra - University of Sheffield

Our ‘Beyond Graduation’ programme provides support for those either working in practice or looking for work including those seeking to develop a career outside of architecture. The programme runs at both post-Part I and Post-Part II levels as a non-credit based course to help support students through their early career choices.

Ian Shepherd Programme Director PG Dip Architecture Contact ian.shepherd@bcu.ac.uk (Parts II & III) ant.clerici@bcu.ac.uk (Part I)

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External Examiner Kathy Gal - Architectural Association

The School provides a Professional Studies Advisor (PSA) to guide students through the process as well as careers support, access to library facilities and IT resources. The School has a wide network of contacts to help support students into work.

MA Zero Carbon Architecture and Retrofit Design The STEAMhouse is a redevelopment project to transform a vacant car showroom in the Digbeth area of Birmingham into a collaborative innovation centre. Focused around science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM), the redevelopment aims to align the needs of the creative economy with scientific and technological developments. The students were asked to devise their own design brief for a retrofit of this building into a Zero Carbon STEAMHouse. The development included collecting existing information about the STEAMhouse project, including drawings and specifications, in order to establish the base line for retrofit. The development of zero carbon retrofit followed, including generation and refinement of design proposals, translating the explorations into

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design ideas, refinement of the ideas, dealing with conflicting design constraints, and rigorous building performance simulation to eliminate every gram of CO2 emissions whilst ensuring excellent thermal comfort. The scheme featured here is by Jonathan Bradbury, with the key narrative to engage with the public and animate an alienated portion of Birmingham, creating collaboration between the occupants and with the surrounding area, thus promoting a sense of community and stimulating growth.â&#x20AC;? Lubo Jankovic Programme Director MA Zero Carbon Architecture & Retrofit Design

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MA Conservation of The Historic Environment

The postgraduate course in Conservation of the Historic Environment, validated in 2014, recruited well this academic year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with 19 new applicants in year 1 of the 2 year part-time programme. The course is aimed at mid career professionals or contractors with a delivery format of Friday and Saturday teaching , so all the students are in full time employment . This leads to a fascinating cross section of skills and professional knowledge. The course fits in well with the expanded School of Architecture and Design, with courses in historic landscapes and historic interiors as well as a strong emphasis on conservation philosophy and understanding the significance of exisiting buildings and their sustainable futures . The course continues to offer Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for architects, surveyors, engineers or home owners.

One of the important aspects of the course is the number of specialist lecturers used to deliver the workshops as can be seen from the partial list above. Another is the practical nature of the course, with students getting hands on experience and understanding of traditional building materials. The knowledge of lime as a mortar, plaster, render or limewash is the cornerstone of working with pre 1919 buildings and structures, and all students have a go at mixing mortars, as well as plastering onto lath and repointing stonework at Llanymynech Limeworks in north Shropshire.

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There were several highlights to the practical workshops this year, including hands on chain and nail making at the Black Country Living Museum for the metals course. The partnership with the Canal and River Trust lead to two fascinating days at the Dudley Canal and Tunnel Trust- with students legging the narrow boat through the tunnel during their course on the heritage of canals.

and brick. Other topics include the conservation of 20th century buildings, historic interiors and historic parks and gardens â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all expanding the students knowledge and understanding of different aspects of the historic environment. Understading and improving the financial and environmental sustainability of historic buildings - is another important part of the course , and students have been working with Building Preservation Trusts to consider options appraisals for both redundant places of worship and secular buildings.

Harriet Devlin Programme Director MA Conservation of The Historic Environment

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Another real priviledge was the enormous generosity of the owners of Pitchford Hall in Shropshire, one of the most remakable buildings in Britain, that has just been bought back by the former family after 25 years of neglect. The owners allowed the students to explore the attics of the mansion for their timber frame course, as well as visiting the 17th century tree house . A second visit was made for the Building Recording course â&#x20AC;&#x201C; with students trying to understand the chronology of construction of this extraordinary building. The decay and remediation of building stones is also studied with demonstrations from banker masons to understand both material defects and the palette of repair techniques. Likewise with ceramic building materials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tiles are studied at Jackfield Tile Museum in the Ironbridge Gorge and the students work with a conservation bricklayer to understand terracotta

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As another fast paced academic year draws to a close, this is a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the year and as a course team we take pleasure in saying how proud we are of our students on all levels of the programme. This year sees the penultimate year of the existing course as BA (Hons) Interior Design and has given us the opportunity to start to envision the direction of ‘Interior Architecture and Design’ and the new course structure in the coming year. The highlight of the Interior calendar is the study trip – which this year saw a group of our students embark on a tour of Switzerland to experience first-hand Zumthor’s Spa in Vals and then across the border into Germany to visit Vitrahaus, Vitra Design Museum and Vitra Campus, taking in some of the world’s most exciting interior architectural creations. With a mix of work and play, this trip was especially relevant for Year 2 as they went on to develop their own SPA project.

explored the meaning of interior design through projects that focussed specifically on light, materials, detail and colour. With this in mind, Year 1 visited Clerkenwell design quarter in London, a chance to interact first hand with the industry reps and view the latest innovative products with a focus on “future workplace”. As the year progressed the projects grew in complexity as well as user group; from the design of a single person apartment, a workspace for students, leisure and hospitality space through to experiential retail space. The students rose to the challenges of the year and the final projects really pulled together their skills and creativity. The Middle: Becoming a Professional

Arriving with energy and enthusiasm, our Year 1 students started the year with the ‘Keep Calm and Doodle On’ project where Interior and Architecture students worked together in teams on explorative and fluid doodles which culminated in vibrant presentations at The Nest Exhibition Space.

Year 2 is the busiest year, with a hectic but enlightening schedule. We are extremely proud of our students as they have pushed the boundaries, building on their skill base with a solid understanding of designing through volume and repurposing spaces. A holistic interdisciplinary approach to some small projects dispersed throughout the year has seen some fun and creative collaborations with other courses within the faculty, including Fashion & Textiles, Visual Communication, and Landscape – further enhancing communication skills, and expanding our knowledge of other disciplines. The outcomes were a fascinating take on ‘Expanded Costumes’, and an ‘Inside / Outside Allotment Project’.

After that the hard work started as students begun to build a baseline of design skills through practical applications and insightful investigations. We

A semester long Erasmus exchange programme is also offered in Year 2, and some of our students were selected to study abroad in various different European

With collaborations popping up across the school and between disciplines, we are reminded that we are only the sum of our best team effort. Beginnings: Light Material Detail Colour

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Year 2 took over one of the theatre spaces in the Parkside Building, demonstrating exhibition design, atmospheric lighting and even accommodating an aerialist to inspire us with her talents, and help us to understand a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;User Needsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; project brief. She was one of an eclectic team of professionals including a poet, and a musician who brought our first Live/Work project to life. As the year has progressed so has the emphasis on self-development and creative responses to more complex briefs. Continuing our strong link with Industry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Green Room Retail popped in to launch a project incorporating designing for brands; and to end the year all of our students joined a rich plethora of design companies across the UK for our inaugural work placements. Students experienced an insightful and demanding week that opened many eyes to the reality of the end destination. And Finally: The Exhibition The pressure is on at Year 3, as they invited to step out of their comfort zones to produce some of the best work they have ever created. An initial challenging RSA brief saw a very humanistic response to various projects; addressing everything from mental agility in an aging population to the complexities of lifestylerelated health decisions. Having made the monumental decision of topic for their Final Major Project, Year 3 undertook the research and feasibility study that supports

and strengthens their projects, highlighting some interesting facts and renewing the sense of excitement for the design work that was about to come. The year culminated in a very successful degree show, where we took a moment to celebrate the journey that our final year students have undertaken with some inventive, unique, and very commercially savvy projects on show. The response has impressed all of our visitors, and we hope that their time with us will now take them to the very heights of their career ambitions. . Glenda Strong Programme Director BA [Hons] Interior Design

Tutors: Glenda Strong Maria Martinez Sanchez Kathryn Jones Tony Salmon Jo Coldicott Victoria Patterson Burke Tony Kerby Rachel Doherty Alexandra King Kayla Rees Ashley Wilson

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architecture and design schools in cities including Rome, Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Alicante (Spain).

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Drawings and Computerised image of the Pod

New Detail Secconal View Polished Stainless Steel 3mm thickness

Top rail resin fixed onto the glass Average height would be 1120 above floor level Top seccon is finished using Black dry fit gasket bead to both sides of the glass

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witch casused by social inequality in this borugh, and in the meantime providing a green space as a complement of the lack of green space in this borough. From basic interaction in first floor’s food market, the further connection will be build by the first floor. The first floor will provide the rent slots of allotment to group users, so they could do the farming work toghter which is to let users collaborate with each other, further enhancing their connection. There are huge grid frame struture on the seond floor. This structure

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There will be inserted three floors, each floor has its own functions,first floor is the food market, second floor is the traditional farming area, third floor is the hydriponic box frame works.Those programmes will let the users’ interaction and connection increase floor by floor.

For finding the form language showing the idea of the increasely close connection between users, getting insparations from the vertical farming steel structure frame in the meantime. This his kind of grid structure which changing the density level by level became this project form concept. The right photo shows how this kind of density changing grid form and different programmes combined together .

holding a lot of hydroponic boxes, which could be rented by users and conneted with social media apps. Through those boxes, users relationship will go beyond this space and go to their real daily life.

others to enhance the sense of coherence and problem enhance the social cohesion.

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This is a food market combined with indoor vegetable farming area and hydroponic area in the centre of the London Borough of Islington. This project is for providing a space to let Islington residents to communicate and communicate with each other more, so as to enhance this area’s cohesion and connection responding to the issue of lack of cohesion

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The whole grid elements will give users the first impression. First floor’s food market as an exellent social place for communicating and interacting with each other without boundaries in a daily-life based way.The farming area is a respond to the food market programme as well as the green space needs. Troditional farming area let users collaborate with each other let them be closer. The top floors’ rented hydroponic boxes conneted with social media apps let users’ connection beyond this building and to their daily life.

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Hydroponic boxes could be rented by users and connected with users’ social media apps which let users could monitor and share their plants gowth condition at any time

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alloments with sheds

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Transforming the grid structure, creating a eye attracting ceiling that could lead users taking

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Vertical vines, herbs and living wall - ground gloor herbs on table, first floor living walls, second floor vines

Ground Floor - view of food market’s open eating area

Timber floor - ground floor visitor centre flooring, first floor harvester centre flooring, second floor all floorings Fair-faced concrete - first floor sheds wall and flooring

White paint - ground floor walls. second floor steel frame surface painting Yellow bricks -first Floor sheds’ exterior walls

Plastic wood -ground floor open eating space flooring, first floor allotments flooring

Ground Floor - up view of the platform of stairs from ground floor to first floor, with temparary cofe podsv

Rusty copper - stairs’s base structure surppoting steps

Silver aluminum & steel - stairs grid structure, first floor archshape steel structure Translucent Glass - stair steps , vistor centre wall

First Floor - view from shed platform looking at allotmnets area and second floor fram structrues

First Floor - side view of the platform of stairs from ground floor to first floor, and the view of the stairs from first floor to second floor

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Stairs - cafe pod on the platform of stairs from ground floor to second floor

Second Floor - top view of the Organic Restaurant closed by the frame structure holding hydroponic boxes

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Second Floor- side perspective view of the Organic Restaurant closed by the frame structure holding hydroponic boxes

Hydroponic Box connected with social media apps on smart phones

First Floor - interior view of allotments area coverd by arch-shape steel structure

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MA Interior Design

“There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles” Stephen Covey This academic year has seen the transformation of this postgraduate programme. As one of the world’s leading authorities on leadership and organisational change, Dr Stephen Covey’s work has inspired us to take a fresh look at all of the positive actions, directions and values that this reputable programme has inspired in others. Acting as a creative catalyst, our Industry Champions, Alumni, and Academic Mentors have generously and enthusiastically helped the postgraduate students and staff team to hone a new future focused programme to be even more responsive and relevant. As stakeholders this collaborative team have been keen to establish a much more flexible programme that can be tailored to suit the needs of all of our students. By placing ‘choice’ at the heart of this student centred curriculum, each module can be tailored to meet the study and creative aspirations of each postgraduate.

This year we have seen our postgraduate students develop holistic career plans whilst simultaneously refining their professional praxis. By asking “What does being an interior architect mean to me?”, “What contribution do I want make in the world?” and “With

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A key aspect of the transformation of the programme has been to change the name of the course to embrace a focus on ‘Interior Architecture’. We believe that this new title better reflects the dynamic bridges that we foster both within the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, as well as in the creative workplace between the two intertwined service sectors of design and architecture.

whom do I want to work?” our students have been able to better define their ambitions. Discourse and debate about ‘legacy’ and ‘joy’ as essential features in the creative process, has helped our students to explore the significance of design values and prompted these international designers to refine unique cultural identities as interior architects. Students on the MA Interior Design programme have reported excellent student satisfaction results for the forth year in a row and have achieved an outstanding 91% employment rate. After a period of only six months, our Alumni have let us know that they have secured industry roles as interior designers, as well as higher education managers and educators. These postgraduates regularly tell us that they have benefited from the programme, and specifically the experience of the support of design practitioners, architects and designers across a range of interior design fields. When working at Masters level, it is common for our students and alumni to progress onto a higher academic level. This year, we are particularly proud of Dr Mohammad Mullaali, who has recently been awarded his PhD and is now mentoring three other alumni who are engaged in their own doctorial research. Delia Skinner Programme Director – MA Interior Design Tutors: Delia Skinner Graham Powell Suus Mulligan Jemma Browne Rui Yang David Sharpe Dr Jieling Xiao Dr Maria Martinez Sanchez

Alumni Mentors: Huichao Feng PhD study – “The changing pattern of residential dwelling of the Mosuo Tribe in China”

Live Project – Mr Chamdal’s Apothecary The interior design programme sits within the Birmingham School of Architecture. This vibrant community is made up of staff, students, designers, researchers and industry partners. Strong creative bridges between postgraduate courses, enables our students to tailor their learning to suit their unique professional ambitions. We encourage and support our postgraduate students to work collaboratively with other creative people both inside and outside the University. By doing this they cement rich cultural, creative and professional collaborations.

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Establishing the Brief – students were asked to create an imaginative design scheme for a particular grooming sector. This needed to be a commercial viable offer - a grooming orientated business opportunity, that would launch a new brandscape for: “Mr Chamdal’s Apothecary”. In this project, our students refined the brand identity to reflect the philosophy and culture associated with the local entrepreneur – Bhavnesh Chamdal. They needed to consider the way that the brand values and characteristics associated with the brand, could be represented in an interior design concepts that they developed.

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The Rationale for the Design Systems Module: Engagement with industry and industry-based scenarios is a key aspect of this module. This industry orientated assignment focused the attention of our students on the leisure sector and required them to conduct research about how men’s grooming and barber services are being situated within global, regional, national and international contexts. Throughout the module students needed to prove their appreciation of international commercial cultures by justifying the potential connections that this research could have, with new market opportunities & design innovations.

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Product and Furniture Design

BA (Hons) Product Design BA (Hons) Furniture and Lifestyle Products BA (Hons) 3D Designer Maker It’s time to reflect on the fantastic work and achievements of our students from BA (Hons) Product Design, BA (Hons) Furniture and Lifestyle Products and BA (Hons) 3D Designer Maker. Another successful year has seen the design, development and realisation of many outstanding projects. With an emphasis on the ‘made object’, students have continued to explore materials, techniques and processes, both digital and analogue, to define and develop an individual design focus. From footwear design to cutting edge lighting, the work demonstrates real diversity in creative approaches. Students have certainly made use of the Parkside workshop facilities, producing an array of sophisticated, well finished objects in a range of specialist materials. This year in particular, many engaged with outside manufacturers as part of the development and completion of final outcomes. From powder-coaters to metal spinners, studying in the ‘Manufacturing Midlands’ has enabled our students to take advantage of our local industries. This year, there have been some notable achievements including a winning entry for the Royal Society of Arts design awards for third year student Thom HowellJones and a Furniture Makers Company design award for second year student Scott Ridgway. These and many other projects emphasise the importance of user centred design, social context, ethical and sustainable issues as well as commercial understanding. 182

We celebrated the work of our final year students at Parkside’s fabulous graduate show as part of the

‘BCU Inspired festival’ in early June. In July, the New Designers Exhibition (Part 2) also provided a fantastic opportunity for students to showcase their Product & Furniture designs alongside the best graduates in the UK at a major London venue attended by design and industry professionals. From September 2017 we enter into a new era, with the opening of newly validated BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design. This new title consolidates our courses into one over-arching programme and opens up fantastic opportunities for exploration across the ‘scales of manufacture’. At the close of the academic year, we learned that the programme had achieved our highest ever NSS overall satisfaction score of 94%. We are all truly excited about what the future holds for Product and Furniture Design as we build on this and previous successes as within the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design. Thanks to everyone who has worked with us and made the 16/17 academic year what it was. Jason Nicholson Programme Director BA (Hons) Product Design. Tutors Jason Nicholson Wayne Pottinger Malcolm Hastings Nuno Lourinho Richard Underhill David Muston

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MA Product Design Upon reflection, the 2016 – 2017 academic year allowed us to further engage with external partners, both national and international manufactures, in order to provide ‘real’ work experiences to our MA Product Design students. Building on previous years’ experience, the projects developed aimed at both exploring theory alongside real-world practice and fusing the best of both in a unique approach to product design. By focusing on student professional development, the course has encouraged and enabled ‘us’ to take part in the debate and analyses to create new concept proposals. This year, our students have pursed design proposals that explored alternative new energies, recycling policies or innovative user interactions among others. This year, there have been some notable achievements and collaboration projects. In particular, we have celebrated YuChung Chang’s Gold entry in the Spark Design Awards. This distinction positioned our University and programme among an exclusive list of international institutions. Also, as part of the curriculum our students have collaborated with Hille Educational Products. Building on the heritage of designers such as Robin Day, our students explored transit-seating solutions in relation to everyday travelling commutes. Students have embraced Birmingham City University values and enhanced our School’s unique geographical culture. In short, that means contributing to the design field in an international level wile embracing both heritage and cutting-age local expertise. No doubt that our students’ achievements have made us proud and we are looking forward to build on this year experiences. Nuno Lourinho Programme Director, MA Product Design

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Design and Visualisation

MA Design and Visualisation

Design and visualisation plays a key role in many of today’s businesses and organisations. From designing complex animations, brand identity, 3D products, virtual interiors, landscape, architectural visualisation and new conceptual designs, employers look for graduates with creativity and knowledgebased software skills. This year students on the course were able to choose an individualised programme of study chosen from a variety of cross disciplinary MA modules and learnt how to apply design visualisation techniques and strategies to areas such as product design, interior design, graphic design and various other specialisations.

Students on this programme further develop their skills and competencies as a 3D design visualiser with an understanding of the design process. They are taught how to make important and critical decisions, how to devise visualisation strategies, design methods and how to use these skills across a range of disciplines. On completion of the course, students are able to evaluate, choose and apply relevant theories, concepts and techniques to the solution of design and the knowledge that underpins it. This knowledge and transferable skills helps our graduates succeed in a competitive industry. Every year students have the chance to engage with Live Projects that offer unique opportunities to experience working on real projects for real clients within the curriculum. Students learn how to place equal emphasis on the process of development, rather than just focussing on the final outcome.

Importance is also placed not only on design quality, but also on engagement practice, creative participation and how the design is developed. The course provides the framework for reviewing, reflecting, analysing and critiquing existing designs and techniques that equips our graduates with a solid understanding of design visualisation, as well as how to apply different visualisation techniques in specific situations.

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The course that our students study on has the following characteristics:Contemporary, relevant and cutting-edge curriculum exposing students to a variety of new technologies. Engaging study sessions that ensure students learn a range of vital skills needed for various design positions. Excellent links with industry and employers. Our graduates move on to successful careers where they apply their knowledge and ‘Toolbox’ of skills. Our campus is based in the centre of a vibrant cosmopolitan city. The Faculty of Arts, Design and Media is one of the UK’s largest Design Faculty.

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Design Management

MA Design Management

Professional Development For Ambitious Designers

“If design and designers are to play a more strategic role in organisations, they have to shift from being technical experts to taking an influential and perhaps leading role.” Design Council (2014) How can designers develop their strategic skills and knowledge? The nature of the design industry, where designers often work in small businesses with limited time and financial resources, means it can be difficult to invest in continuing professional development. The Master’s in Design Management at Birmingham City University addresses this problem by providing the opportunity to study either full-time, part-time or via work-based learning, which allows participants to remain in their full-time design practice. Established over twenty-five years, this is a highly respected, innovative programme with a distinct focus on practice and useful outcomes. The course is aimed at ambitious designers and non-designers who want to accelerate their careers by developing management skills and gaining business and marketing insight.

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Design management is a globalised, multidisciplinary discipline and we’re delighted to report that the course opened in at the Hong Kong Design Institute in January in partnership with the School for Higher and Professional Education (SHAPE).

MA Design Management attracts designers and nondesigners from the UK, Europe and internationally. While some of our students will have recently graduated, others join us with extensive experience. Alongside the knowledge and experience of the teaching staff, the breadth and depth of experience in the student cohort is an essential feature of this course. Lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials are held on campus, students attend classes in person, but can also join some classes online. We webcast live and record classes making them accessible at any time, we also hold online discussion groups. While online access is particularly valuable for our part-time and work-based students, we place great value on the social aspects of learning, the unplanned and the unexpected that happen when talented people get together. An essential component of study is the ability to exploit the wealth of networking and extra-curricular opportunities. These typically include personal introductions, industry speakers and events, internships, paid work, competitions, research events, University and Faculty guest speakers, entrepreneurship events and funding. We welcome opportunities to work with industry. Our aim is always to establish a mutually beneficial relationship between the course and an organisation with an interest in design. We aim to provide a design-focused resource that an organisation may not otherwise have access to, and at the same time, provide our postgraduates with access for their

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A Master’s Based In Practice Building on our strength in the UK, MA Design Management opened in Hong Kong in January with our first cohort of twenty students. Averaging over ten years’ experience in design the students bring a wealth of experience to the programme, complementing both the UK and HK teaching teams who have extensive experience in design, business and higher education. Collaboration with industry and other organisations is central to our students’ experience. Specialist Guest Lectures Students enjoy insights from a series of guest speakers throughout the programme, this year guest events included an introduction to human dynamics and the nature of the workplace by Herman Miller Insight Group and an introduction to Intellectual Property Law by Paul Leonard of Billings Jackson Design and Richard Gallafent. of Gallafents Limited. “Complementing design expertise with an understanding of business and commercial realities is a great approach. It means that companies like mine can recruit designers who understand the design business as well as the art of design”. Paul Leonard, Director and CEO of Trademarks and Licenses, Billings Jackson Design.

Collaboration During the MA Design Management programme, students are actively involved in the leadership module. An engaging experience, where students are encouraged to respond to a live project brief, whilst researching leadership and exploring their team working, motivational and interpersonal skills. The module involves students in observing, recording and reflecting on their individual and their colleagues interpersonal style. All of these skills are essential to a successful management career. We were delighted to welcome architecture and interiors firm, the Space Studio, who asked us to review how effectively the practice communicates its values and positioning, both internally and externally. Students were asked to consider this in teams. The Space Studio were looking for a strategic overview, an analysis of their current situation and recommendations for the future. ‘The company visit that formed the central focus of the module and related activities was well chosen and widely well-received. Across the range of work scrutinised, the individual reflective diary ‘pieces’ was a strong element to the submissions, allowing the students to reflect upon themselves as to where they could contribute to team based activities drawing upon their own individual strengths and character traits’. Dr. David Hands, University of Lancaster, External Examiner for MA Design Management.

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research. We encourage businesses to consider what would be valuable to them, what they might not otherwise have the resources for. For instance, research into new markets, competitors, processes, communication, efficiency and topical issues, such as sustainability. We take great care in matching suitable students to placement opportunities.

Lancaster Design Jam 2017 Led by Imagination Lancaster, Design Jam 2017 involved a collaboration between Lancaster University, De Montfort and Birmingham City Universities. Designed to develop and support collaborative, design-orientated research and teaching links, Imagination Lancaster investigates emerging issues, technologies and practices to advance knowledge and develop solutions that contribute to the common good. Held at Lancaster University, the Design Jam 2017 welcomed a range of guest speakers, involving a series of talks, workshops and engaging activities, providing students with the opportunity for collaborative group-based, mind mapping and investigative team exercises, whilst working in real time with staff and students at the Hong Kong Design Institute. Caroline Norman Programme Director, MA Design Management Tutors: Caroline Norman Nick Irvin

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Read our previous Annual Reviews and Grad Show gazettes on the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design Issuu page: www.issuu.com/bsoad Visit our course pages on the Birmingham City University website: www.bcu.ac.uk/bsoad