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Live build summer for Westminster students in collaboration with St John the Divine School Kennington 14-25 June 2021

Live build summer for Westminster students in collaboration with St John the Divine School Kennington 14-25 June 2021

The Climate Demonstrator is a live build summer school for University of Westminster students in collaboration with St John the Divine School Kennington. 


Be part of a two-week live build summer from 14th to 25th June. Work as part of team to design and fabricate an exciting, interactive playground installation that demonstrates the science of buildings and their interaction with climate and biodiversity. The summer school is open to all Westminster students.

  

What’s the challenge? 

To design and fabricate an exciting interactive playground installation that demonstrates the science of buildings and their interaction with climate and biodiversity. 


Who can take part?

The project is open to all students at University of Westminster. 


How is the summer school structured? 

Students of different levels and courses from the School of Architecture and Cities will work collaboratively within five teams, each team assigned a brief based on a specific climate principle. Students will design and fabricate an interactive playground installation that demonstrates their assigned climate principle and its interaction with the built environment. 

In the first stage, students will participate in an intensive one-day design charrette or workshop to develop a final design and make a concept model. The models will be taken to the school for discussion and debate. The next stage will be to produce fabrication drawings leading to construction of the final work. The installations will be taken to the school for a day of interaction and exhibition with schoolchildren and for display as part of the London Festival of Architecture. 


Who is supporting the summer school?

The project is funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust as part of a larger funding strategy that is likely to develop into a more substantial and permanent project around climate and biodiversity in the next academic year. 

Developed in collaboration with St John the Divine Primary School in Kennington, the summer school is also generously supported by local architectural practices Formation Architects and DSDHA, who are providing mentorship to the students throughout the duration of the workshop.   


When will it take place? 

The summer school will be held for two weeks from 14th to 25th June, culminating in an exhibition on the last day on the public realm just outside the grounds of St. John’s School. The exhibition is open to the public on Friday 25th June from 4-6 pm. 


What will students get out of it? 

Constructive fun! After over a year of isolated working this is chance to celebrate a return to face-to-face life and interactive hands-on making. Work with students from other disciplines and levels. Develop organisational and project management skills. Make contact with architects, stakeholders and the schools community. The event is part of the London Festival of Architecture so the students' work will be on public exhibition.


Brief Themes

Energy

Ecology

Energy

Design and fabricate an interactive playground installation that demonstrates principles of solar or wind energy converted into electricity.


Heat

Ecology

Energy

Design and fabricate an interactive playground installation that demonstrates principles of heat conservation, the effect of insulation and passive cooling. 

Ecology

Ecology

Ecology

Understand living things and their habitats.  Design and fabricate an interactive playground installation that demonstrates principles of biodiversity and ecology through inspection of different living things and their habitats.

Warming

Warming

Ecology

 Design and fabricate an interactive playground installation that demonstrates the impact of temperature increase and ice melting on sea level rise. 

Water

Warming

Water

 Design and fabricate an interactive playground installation that demonstrates principles of rainwater run-off, infiltration and soil erosion.  

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