Join us reimagine, co-design and prototype your future creative neighbourhood.
This workshop’s challenge is to reimagine a neighbourhood within the Birmingham or Black Country area with a new creative & equitable purpose! Together, we will as teams face off to rapidly prototype your neighbourhood ideas; creating miniature versions of them from unconventional city-born materials.
Creations from this workshop will be exhibited in a public arts space as part of a body of work celebrating the power of everyday citizens to reimagine and design purposeful cities they want to live in; with an extended invitation for those willing to continue this project to help redevelop a real local neighbourhood.
Things to Expect
- Model Making (Cutting, Gluing, Fixing, Tearing, Breaking, Building)
- Open Discussion (Dreams, Desires, Goals, Lived experiences)
- Co-Learning (Discover new things about how cities are designed vs. how we would like them to be)
Things to bring:
- (optional) Old, unloved or unused household item(s)
Speakers
Andre Reid
KIONDO
Andre Reid is an active protagonist in the work to understand, develop and grow access to opportunities, skills & experiences for creative citizens throughout Birmingham. After graduating from Birmingham’s School of Architecture & Design in 2013, Andre has organised, managed and co-curated a number of low-barrier opportunities for creative individuals & groups to increase their sense of agency and/ or build sustainable businesses: from Blacktapestudios – Coworking Production Space, 2014-2016; to PopIN UK’s – 6 month fusion pop-up store, 2016.
Andre’s current venture KIONDO, continues his theme of access over ownership by bridging the gap between designers and the everyday individual’s creative intelligence. KIONDO aims to empower the everyday person to design & make the items around them to fulfil their own needs, maximising & aiding in the evolution of open-source design and digital fabrication. KIONDO’s work centres greatly around disassembling typical power dynamics, rethinking consumerism and using learnt experience to build a circular & regenerative economy which is both fun and exciting to live within.