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Living in the wall
The children involved in this project were from Claughton Children’s Centre, Wirral, Cheshire. PLACES organised the project in conjunction with the Centre for the Urban Built Environment (CUBE) in Manchester and Places Matter! in Liverpool.
The project was funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). An exhibition of the project toured the North West in the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Architruck in collaboration with the Storey Gallery, Lancaster and the Lantern House, Ulverston.
The project was funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). An exhibition of the project toured the North West in the Royal Institute of British Architect’s Architruck in collaboration with the Storey Gallery, Lancaster and the Lantern House, Ulverston.
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The project was an outcome of a lecture on the work of PLACES at the Tea Factory in Liverpool when links were established with the newly refurbished Claughton Children’s Centre. The Centre staff were enthusiastic about the children using the building and its garden as a resource in their creative learning.
Although they were keen for this to happen they felt that the very structured external spaces around the Centre were not child friendly and lacked any ‘sense of place’. The proposed project was seen as the start of an ongoing process of engagement between the children, teachers and parents with the building and its site.
The lecture coincided with an exhibition at the Tea Factory on the work of the Indian naïve artist Nek Chand. The subject of the exhibition was the ‘secret garden’ he had created on derelict land in the city of Chandigarh. It was this exhibition together with the work of Gianni Rodari, the Italian writer of stories for children, which was the starting point for discussions between the teachers and artists as to how the project might evolve.
Project notes PDF download
Although they were keen for this to happen they felt that the very structured external spaces around the Centre were not child friendly and lacked any ‘sense of place’. The proposed project was seen as the start of an ongoing process of engagement between the children, teachers and parents with the building and its site.
The lecture coincided with an exhibition at the Tea Factory on the work of the Indian naïve artist Nek Chand. The subject of the exhibition was the ‘secret garden’ he had created on derelict land in the city of Chandigarh. It was this exhibition together with the work of Gianni Rodari, the Italian writer of stories for children, which was the starting point for discussions between the teachers and artists as to how the project might evolve.
Project notes PDF download