Colour the City #DAY1 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Introduction to the team & skillshare
10.15 a.m.: Ice breaker activity // Skribbl
11.00 a.m.: Coffee break
11.15 a.m.: Brief introduction into "Colour the City", collaborators, and two-week plan
12.15 p.m.: Precedent Research

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Drawing and scanning presentation
3.00 p.m.: Coffee break
3.15 p.m.: Precedent Research Discussion
4.15 p.m: Review of #DAY1
4.30 p.m.: Run-through #DAY2 schedule
5.00 p.m: End of #DAY1

See you on #DAY2!!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY1

Great work from Colour the City team for #DAY1, getting their minds with creative and brilliant ideas. Here are all the snapshots from today's activities.

#DAY1 done! More fun activities are ready and waiting for you, so join us on #DAY2. Looking forward to seeing all of you!

Colour the City #DAY2 schedule

9.45 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.00 a.m.: ‘Get-to-know’ Invisible (Manchester)
10.35 a.m.: Virtual tour with the Invisible (Manchester) tour guides, Danny and Laura!
11.45 a.m.: Coffee break
12.00 p.m.: Photograph and text exchange

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Graphic layout talk by Dan James
3.00 p.m.: Task Allocation
3.30 p.m: Review of #DAY2
3.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY3 schedule
4.00 p.m: End of #DAY2

We are really excited and looking forward to the sessions!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY2

After a great session on #DAY1, today we started with a brief introduction about Invisible (Manchester). We met delightful tour guides - full of useful pieces of information, easily understood and open to our questions at all times, absolutely loved every minute of it!

"I really enjoyed our tour with Danny! You could really tell that he was much more knowledgeable about the city than regular tour guide, and his personal experiences made everything that he was describing much more meaningful. His poems were also integrated really well throughout the tour and made the tour have a better flow (:" -Damla Tunc

In the afternoon session, we had the opportunity to meet a talented graphic designer, Dan James from birthdaystudio. It was a very cool graphic and productive session that enabled the students to understand and learn the graphic knowledge.

#DAY2 done! More fun activities are ready and waiting for you, so join us on #DAY3. Looking forward to seeing all of you!

Colour the City #DAY3 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development
12.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY4 schedule
1.00 p.m: End of #DAY3

We are really excited and looking forward to the sessions!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY3

It was a great start from Colour the City team!

Looking forward to seeing more updates on the drawings! See all of you on #DAY4

Colour the City #DAY4 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m.: Colouring booklet development
4.00 p.m.: Informal work share on Miro Board
4.30 p.m.: Review of #DAY4
4.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY5 schedule
1.00 p.m: End of #DAY4

We are really excited and looking forward to the sessions!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY4

We spent the whole day with drawing and managed to see huge progress in the development of the drawings on the Miro Board.

Love the efforts! Keep it coming guys!

Colour the City #DAY5 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development
11.00 a.m.: Quiz session
12.00 a.m.: Colouring booklet development

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Colouring booklet development
4.30 p.m.: Review of #DAY5
4.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY6 schedule
5.00 p.m: End of #DAY5

See all of you today!!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY5

This morning we witnessed that Group 2 won the quiz!! It had been so good to see everybody having a good time with the Invisible (Manchester) tour guides.

After the quiz, Colour the City team continued with their drawings and they came up with some really amazing progress in the presentation.

We look forward to presenting the amazing works to our collaborator at the start of next week! We are super excited!

WEEK 2
Colour the City #DAY6 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.15 a.m.: Instagram takeover & marketing talk with Lauren from Invisible (Manchester)
11.05 a.m.: Coffee break
11.15 a.m.: Presentation of the progress to Invisible (Manchester)
11.45 a.m.: Discussion of feedback
12.05 p.m.: Colouring booklet development and marketing

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Colouring booklet development and marketing
4.30 p.m: Review of #DAY6
4.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY7 schedule
5.00 p.m: End of #DAY6

See you on #DAY7!!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY6

It was an hour-plus of insightful sharing from this morning's session with Lauren Rosegreen, Sales and Business Development Manager from the Invisible Manchester team. She gave deeper insights into the importance of marketing for the team.

After the talk with Lauren, we continued to brew for a more insightful discussion with the Invisible (Manchester) team regarding the drawings produced by Colour the City team. So happy to receive positive feedback from them!

"Amazing work!"
"Love the clouds and birds."
"Love the details on the buildings!"

WEEK 2
Colour the City #DAY7 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development and marketing

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Colouring booklet development and marketing
4.30 p.m: Review of #DAY7
4.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY8 schedule
5.00 p.m: End of #DAY7

See you on the next day!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY7

Group 1 and Group 2 made impressive progress so far and we can't wait to see the compilation of the great drawings in the colouring booklet!

Few more days to go!

WEEK 2
Colour the City #DAY8 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development and marketing
12.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY9 schedule
1.00 p.m: End of #DAY8

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY8

Another day, another great job shown by the Colour the City team. We also came up with a colour-in postcard booklet template to showcase the drawings.

WEEK 2
Colour the City #DAY8 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up and briefing
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development and marketing

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Colouring booklet development and marketing
4.00 p.m.: Informal work share
4.30 p.m: Review of #DAY8
4.45 p.m.: Run-through #DAY9 schedule
5.00 p.m: End of #DAY8

On to the last day!

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY9

We are so happy to see some drawings have made their way into the postcard booklet. They totally smashed it! We also encouraged them to upload the draft of their drawings on the Miro board so we could see the production of these amazing drawings.

Can't wait to see the final outcome!

IT'S THE BIG DAY!!

Colour the City #DAY10 schedule

10.00 a.m.: Morning catch up
10.15 a.m.: Colouring booklet development

1.00 p.m.: Lunch break

2.00 p.m: Presentation
2.30 p.m.: Handover and final presentation of the finished document to Invisible (Manchester)
3.00 p.m.: MSA Live Team Meeting
3.15 p.m.: Hand in final assessed outputs to Invisible (Manchester)

"THANK YOU" for everyone involved in these two weeks!

Colour the City’s project is to design a colour-in postcard booklet for all ages for Invisible (Manchester) to raise funds for their lost revenue over the past year due to COVID19. The colouring booklet includes hand drawings of different places around Manchester in coordination with the tour guides and their routes.

The idea is to see the city through 1,000 different eyes by having colour-in illustrations. We also chose a colour-in element because it helps reduce anxiety and depression in adults and creates mindfulness which helps your brain to rest, it’s also a fun activity for children. The postcard element is designed to reconnect people and to reduce loneliness, which has been a huge concern recently. The students have provided a design solution to Invisible (Manchester)’s funding and loneliness concerns.

Sensitivity was key in this project. The students needed to converse with the tour guides and be mindful of their situations and stories. The groups used their architectural skills to sensitively illustrate places around Manchester that mean so much to the tour guides.

HIGHLIGHTS OF #DAY10

We received good reviews from our lovely collaborator, Invisible (Manchester) after the presentation of the colour-in postcard booklet on the last day of the event. We were extremely happy to hear each of their comments!

"Love the group picture!"
"It's absolutely beautiful!"
"It's amazing. So so impressed! Thank you so much for all your hard work!

Honestly, we can't wait to have the colour-in postcard booklet in our hands!

KUDOS TO THE COLOUR THE CITY TEAM MEMBERS WHO MADE THE EVENT SUCH A SUCCESS!

We (Kiran, Emily, Ifwat, Farah and Anah) are so proud and grateful to have these such talented team members in the Colour the City project!!! There are no words big enough to thank you for the truly incredible amount of effort, hard works, and contributions that you all brought throughout this two-week project. You totally nailed it!!

A huge thank you too to our lovely collaborator, the Invisible (Manchester) for such amazing and inspiring vibes for the past two weeks. It was a great pleasure to have an opportunity to work with the amazing volunteers and tour guides.

The entire two weeks were definitely filled with incredibly positive energy and spirit from everybody. We were extremely lucky to meet these people at the event and really enjoyed every bit of it. We hope we will have the opportunity to work with them again in the future and definitely stay in touch!