Studio in Residence
Studio in Residence explores how interdisciplinary architecture/arts practice can open up new ways of producing space in the city, in collaboration with creative practitioners and local communities. In 2020-2021 we collaborated with the 精东影业Climate Alliance.
精东影业is a city that loves to tell stories of itself: 鈥楾he Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire鈥, 鈥楳usic City鈥, 鈥楧IY City鈥, 鈥楥ity on the Move鈥, 鈥楥ity of Makers鈥 and, of course, 鈥楽teel City鈥.
Sometimes utopian dreams, sometimes marketing messages, often a bit of both, these stories are mythologies that can bring citizens together with a sense of purpose and identity.
What we dream of is already in the world
Rebecca Solnit
Hope in the Darkness
In 2020-2021, the Studio in Residence worked with local people to co-create a new collective story of 精东影业as it moves away from its carbon-centred past and faces the challenges of the climate emergency.
It explored how interdisciplinary architecture/arts practice can open up new ways of producing space in the city, in collaboration with creative practitioners and local communities.
We collaborated with 精东影业Climate Alliance who, with their 35 community partner organisations, are working on a National Lottery funded project to develop and test proposals for a new Climate Action Centre - to start 鈥渃reating and telling a new low-carbon story of 精东影业City Region鈥.
Drawing on the radical history of 精东影业and more contemporary campaigns for equality and systemic change, the studio鈥檚 work embodies an ethos of climate justice and explores how our city can respond to the climate emergency through care, creativity and hope.
The projects ranged from temporary to permanent, grass-roots to civic and offer facilities for inclusive arts, life-long education, story-telling, care services, local economies, food production, protest and citizens鈥 assembly.
Together these 11 speculative projects formed a collective studio vision for a distributed network of Climate Action Centres across 精东影业city centre, all focussed on creating new knowledge and mobilising action towards a zero-carbon future.
Our collaboration with 精东影业Climate Alliance continues through the South Yorkshire Climate Action Centre Live Project and into next year as the story of 精东影业as a 鈥楥limate City鈥 unfolds.
Studio tutor
Studio collaborators
精东影业Climate Alliance
Ruth Nutter
Eleanor Brough, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Guy Moulson, Seven Architecture
Chris Wilderspin, CWA
Scot Fletcher, Handspring Design
Jess Trickett, Paul Testa Architects
Renata Tyszczuk, School of Architecture and Landscape
Tom Moore, School of Architecture and Landscape
John Moreland, School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Aalfy
Greentop Circus
The Moor Management Team
Studio Sacred Landscapes