Dr Luca Csepely Knorr is an award-winning writer and is the Joint Programme Leader of the Master of Landscape Architecture course with Becky Sobell and is a chartered landscape architect.
She was born in Hungary and has a unique perspective on the relationship between UK and international practice with a passion for the importance of the female role in the construction industry.
With housing and infrastructure being her two buzz words, having her as a collaborator will engage the project in key historical moments of post-war infrastructure and social welfare provision these coal mines and power stations offered.
Luca, along with our collaborator Richard Brook runs an AHRC funded research network: ‘The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Cooling Down’, which this project will be a part of.

Check out Luca’s academic work here: msa-uk.academia.edu/LucaCsepelyKnorr
Twitter: @lucaknorr

Dr Richard Brook is the MSA Infraspace atelier leader and is a registered architect. He is particularly interested in post-WWII British modern architecture and infrastructure. Check out his insta for some cool modernist buildings:
@mainstream_modern
Richard is an experienced architectural historian who is currently leading a project called ‘The Life of Buildings’, where he and his collaborators are creating interactive virtual reality models of historically important buildings from archival drawings and oral histories. The project’s long term aim is to create ‘mixed reality’ cities that co-exist with real cities to educate people on our lost architectural heritage.

Outside of architecture, he likes photographing the moors of the north, fell running and CEGB memorabilia.
Richard, along with our collaborator Luca Csepely Knorr runs an AHRC funded research network: ‘The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Cooling Down’, which this project will be a part of.

The National Coal Mining Museum for England hosts a range of exhibitions and activities on the site of the decommissioned Caphouse Colliery - where many former miners tell their stories of life down the pit. Activities and events preserve the valuable social and industrial history of the mining industry, which came to an end in the UK in 2015 with the closure of the last deep coal mine. The museum is also home to an extensive archive. During the event week we will be organising a workshop to learn about exhibition curation to prepare a series of images for a future exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum for England (details TBC).

Visit the NCMM website here: https://www.ncm.org.uk/

Power Trip launches in...5...4...3...2...1 days!
As we get ready to welcome the BA & MLA students to the Power Trip team, the MArch team are prepping activities and material to create a virtual school trip for kids who have missed out this year!
Look out for more information in the run up to the project launch!

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Getting to know the power stations, mines and ash disposal sites:
Schools kids will get to virtually visit a series of 6 power stations, mines and an ash disposal site in the Aire Valley and former Selby Coalfield, Yorkshire. They will learn how the former infrastructures were connected right from coal extraction and electricity generation through to waste ash processing.
The sites were connected through the natural landscapes of the Rive Aire as a water source and transport route along with specially built railway connections.
We will be sharing a series information videos on each of the case studies made by the March students back in December for the Research Methods Workshop unit.

Find out more about Eggborough Power station here: https://youtu.be/_3WMuLg2UEA

This video was made by the Eggborough Power station case study MArch 01 and MLA2 team during the Research Methods Workshop 09 unit at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Photograph credit: The Museum of English Rural Life.

Find out more about Drax Power station here:
https://youtu.be/GOp0G_-nxaA

This video was made by the Drax Power station case study MArch 01 and MLA2 team during the Research Methods Workshop 09 unit at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Find out more about Kellingley Colliery here:
https://youtu.be/1dRk1eeEhVY

This video was made by the Kellingley Colliery case study MArch 01 and MLA2 team during the Research Methods Workshop 09 unit at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Photograph credit: Workers of Kellingley Colliery Facebook group

Find out more about Ferrybridge Power station here: https://youtu.be/hbAV6IAn3Kc

This video was made by the Ferrybridge Power station case study MArch 01 and MLA2 team during the Research Methods Workshop 09 unit at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Photograph credit: David Pickersgril

Find out more about Gascoigne Wood Mine here: https://youtu.be/0GajBXSd6NQ

This video was made by the Gascoigne Wood Mine case study MArch 01 and MLA2 team during the Research Methods Workshop 09 unit at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Find out more about Gale Common ash disposal site here: https://youtu.be/W-QNA4z4fHg

This video was made by the Gale Common case study MArch 01 and MLA2 team during the Research Methods Workshop 09 unit at the Manchester School of Architecture.

GUEST COLLABORATOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are really excited to announce that Laura Flynn will coming to talk to the Power Trip team. Miss Flynn is a primary school teacher at John Perryn Primary School and will be explaining how best to engage kids online and what makes a great 'normal' school trip!
Her class have yet to experience a real school trip because of COVID-19 so we really hope we can give them a memorable experience!

3 days to go….
Can’t help but feeling today would be typical British school trip weather…Perfect sun…then wait for the heavens to open.
Perk of being virtual, you don’t have to worry about it!
Just researching some ideas to navigate the website by looking at the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s interactive map and their lovely graphics.

The team had a really productive talk from Laura, a primary school teacher, to show the team how she communicates complex sustainability, human rights and historical topics to small children. We have developed some characters for the website to act as a guide through the virtual experience and worked on our illustrations showing the wonders & quirks of power stations & mines!

Written by first year student Ananya to share her new understand of exhibition design following Olivia's interesting masterclass in exhibition deisgn: " I’ve learnt to a great extent about Exhibition design from the master students, and each aspect seems to be equally as important as the other. The first and main aspect is to design based on the intended viewers which in our case were children. Therefore we had to use bright colours and child friendly graphics/animations to adjust to their liking. The target audience therefore creates the theme for the design automatically. We also learnt that creating an engaging story with a lenient flow keeps the audience engrossed. Using modern technology such as new softwares like InDesign and Adobe Illustrator was of great use as well. At the beginning of the MSA Live, us, first year students had barely any knowledge about these softwares but the master students guided us and helped us through it all and I couldn’t be more grateful for how much effort and work they put in to actually teach us AND alongside make the website look stunning." Thanks Ananya!