Check out the schedule for Day 1!
9.00 - Group Welcome
10:15 - Guest Talk with Scott McAulay
11:15 - Project Outputs
12:30 - Housekeeping
14:00 - Topic Breakdown and Presentation
15:15 - What's a Workshop?
16:00 - Presentation & Discussion
16:30 - Debrief

AAS// GUEST SPEAKER

We are pleased to announce that Scott McAulay, founder of AAS, will be joining us for a live presentation followed by a Q&A at 10:15am on the 10th May.

The Anthropocene Architecture School started its life as an event at Scotland’s Architecture Fringe in 2019, and then with Extinction Rebellion he led a session for the public, NGOs, activists, and architects to look at what was holding back their cities’ emergency response.

Next came his Crisis Studios which paired industry tutors with students to design sustainably and it has gone on to offer sessions in climate literacy in CPD slots at practices and public sessions.

We began Day 1 with a group meet and greet followed by a guest talk with Scott McAulay to introduce AAS, and his work, to set the tone for the project. The MArch, accompanied by a presentation, introduced the scope of the project and the outputs for the 2-week program.
This was followed by a 'what's your carbon footprint?' task to get to know everyone a little bit better.

A few slides from the opening presentation to carbon literacy and some interesting discussions on what a 'workshop' can be. How can we engage as many people as possible?

Check out the schedule for Day 2!
9.00 - Group Catch Up
9:30 - Guest Talk with Sam Turner
10:15 - Guest Talk with Simeon Shtebunaev
11:15 - Miro Brainstorm
14:00 - Group Discussion
15:15 - Initial Research
16:00 - Exchange and Digest
16:30 - Debrief

We are pleased to announce that Sam Turner, founder of Resilient Works, and Simeon Shtebunaev will be joining us for a live discussion/Q&A at 9:30am on the 11th May.

Sam, an architect, founded Resilient Works in the chaos of 2020 as a response to the need to drastically change the way we build, with the intention of bringing together his professional experience and an activist’s spirit. He also founded the Carbon Literacy working group in the Architects Climate Action Network.

Simeon is a researcher and senior lecturer in Urban Planning at Birmingham City University. He is also an architectural designer and planning consultant at Beatfreeks and is currently researching how young people engage in the planning of future 'smart' cities.

Great afternoon session today! We've been brainstorming ideas for the target audience, narrative, engagement strategy, visual representation, emotional connectivity, and distribution strategy for the workshop.

Here's the schedule for Day 3!
9.00 - Group Catch Up
9:30 - Research Method Workshop
10:30 - Research Task
12:00 - What did you learn?
12:30 - Debrief

Here's a look at some of the early research conducted by the team, with a focus on three main subject areas: Transport, Commercial and Industry, and Domestic.

Transport (32%), Commercial and Industry (35%), and Domestic (33%) make up for all the carbon emissions in Manchester.

The schedule for Day 4 is here!
9.00 - Group Catch Up
9:30 - Narrative Workshop
10:45 - Independent Research Task
12:00 - Group Research Task
14:00 - Visual Scenes
15:15 - Create a Template

A first look at a narrative for the workshop that aims to form a fundamental portion of the engagement strategy. A personalized story has the ability to connect with your target audience at an emotional level.

The team began by drawing scenes for each subject area, which will include infographics arising from the research conducted on Wednesday and today.

The schedule for Day 5 is here!
9.00 - Group Catch Up
9:30 - Narrative Development
10:45 - Content Discussion
12:00 - Fill in the Research Gaps
14:00 - Infographic Production
16:00 - Debrief

Today at AAS we were developing the narrative for the workshop and discussing content for each slide. In the afternoon, we began to produce graphics for the document based on our carbon research on Manchester and Kareem gave us all a quick introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro. Watch this space for some cool graphics next week.

Welcome to Week 2 of Anthropocene Architecture School! We have a busy week ahead but in the meantime, here is the schedule for Monday 17th May!

9.00 - Group Catch Up
9:30 - Progress Overview and Presentation with Scott McAulay
10:45 - After Effects Tutorial with Kareem
14:00 - Infographic and Animation Production
16:30 - Debrief