Group 03
RETROFIT CHAMPIONS

Our group collaborates with the Manchester based organisation Carbon Co-op, an energy services and advocacy cooperative that helps people and communities to make radical reductions in home carbon emissions necessary to avoid climate change. They are people powered not fossil fuelled. Utilising community based social marketing, Carbon Co-op have us tasked us with creating a series of case studies that will showcase the innovators and early adopters, the vanguard of the retrofit movement, who have successfully retrofitted their homes. Displaying and distributing the achievable and beneficial investments they have made to their homes will encourage citizens to follow in their footsteps, advancing the wider retrofit movement. These case studies will be realised through student led interviews visiting the homes of Carbon Co-operators through a series of methods. To prepare for this we will be hosting a series of workshops to aid with listening, interviewing, and presentation skills. Furthermore, we will use the case production process as a way to share our software skills, teaching transferable skills and methods for making portfolios and showcasing work.

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Esha Emmanuel SJ / Faizal A / Joseph H / Muhammad Luqman Bin I / Brian C

Here's our 1st tutorial with Anna ,our MSA Live tutor. We then liaise with Jonathan Atkinson our collaborator from Carbon
Co-Op to discuss expectations , supports , resources & our …More
Posted 13 Mar 2023 15:04
Our fundamentals for this project! Don't worry , we've have got more in store , if you're willing to explore :) Say it . Ask it. Sorted!
Posted 13 Mar 2023 15:05
NAMES : Faizal Akalwaya
BACHELORS UNI : Manchester School of Architecture
ATELIER : Infrastructure.Space
SKILLS : Retrofit Experience
MSA LIVE AIMS : Broadening my understanding …More
Posted 13 Mar 2023 16:55
NAMES : Brian Cox
BACHELORS UNI : Newcastle University
ATELIER : Continuity in Architecture
SKILLS : Photoshop / Indesign / Render Engines / Autocad / Revit / Sketch Up
MSA LIVE …More
Posted 13 Mar 2023 16:56
NAMES : Esha Emmanuel Selamat Jati
BACHELORS UNI : Manchester School of Architecture
ATELIER : Infrastructure.Space
SKILLS : Model Making / Sketching / Auto-cad / Sketchup / Lumion …More
Posted 13 Mar 2023 16:56
NAMES : Muhammad Luqman Ismadi
BACHELORS UNI : Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
ATELIER : SKN - Some Kind of Nature
SKILLS : Model Making / Sketching / Auto-cad / Revit / Sketchup …More
Posted 13 Mar 2023 16:57
NAMES : Joseph Higginbotham
BACHELORS UNI : Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University
ATELIER : Infrastructure.Space
SKILLS : Adobe Works / Sketchup / AutoCAD / …More
Posted 13 Mar 2023 17:01
Our Action Plan for the next two weeks!
Posted 9 May 2023 14:21
It was great to meet the BA students joining us today and break the ice! Who knew drawing people could cause so much laughter. It's been a great way to get to know each other.
Posted 9 May 2023 14:43
Setting up ready for day 2! Looking forward to sharing some interview skills with our fellow students ahead of the case study visits on Thursday and Friday.
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It was great to meet our first Retrofit Champion, Phoebe Spence, this morning. Constance and Keisuke learnt all about her story, we were all interested in her systems for collecting …More
Posted 11 May 2023 14:16
The students were really engaged in the activities throughout our Day 2 session. To get students ready for the days of the case study visit, we practice some active listening and interview …More
Posted 13 May 2023 11:43
Lloyd Hamilton's home was visited for the case study, which went smoothly. He describes his experience of renovating his home from its initial state of disrepair upon purchase to its …More
Posted 13 May 2023 11:50
Great to visit another amazing retrofit! Case study under construction.
Posted 15 May 2023 16:02
A wonderful conversation with Alan and Monica at their beautiful green home.

Had an amazing visit on Friday last week for one of our case studies for retrofits in Greater Manchester. …More
Posted 15 May 2023 16:16
Had a wonderful trip up North of Manchester to Dominic McCann's beautiful retrofitted home. Dominic is one of the pioneers of Carbon Co-Op Retrofit projects that has became one of the …More
Posted 16 May 2023 10:22
It was great to see our fellow students putting the presentation skills, that we introduced last week, into use. We spent yesterday morning sharing short presentations of our interview …More
Posted 16 May 2023 13:05
Esha giving a masterclass in file organisation. Telling us all to KISS... (keep it simple stupid).
Posted 17 May 2023 10:12
Part of our case study visits and outputs was the collection of photos that illustrated the variance in retrofit approaches as well as our participants articulating the changes on site. …More
Posted 19 May 2023 18:10
After making our case study presentations on the first day back this week, we worked through the information gathered the next few days to create articles to present to Carbon Co-op. …More
Posted 19 May 2023 18:18
Having completed our first drafts for our case study articles, we engaged in a democratic editing session, chaired by our esteemed peer Joseph and peer reviewed by independent reviewer …More
Posted 19 May 2023 18:26
A happy democratic process has come to a close. Got a bit heated on the topic of word count (Faizal) but we all came to a uniform resolution.
Posted 19 May 2023 18:27
We had the pleasure of having Carbon Co-op & People Powered Retrofit introduce 4 of their staff members present for the final output presentation. Jonathan (bottom left) can be seen …More
Posted 19 May 2023 18:52
PRESENTATION DAY!
Each of the case study group presented their findings and reflections to the Carbon Co-op members. The feedback was very positive since we were able to acquire some …More
Posted 19 May 2023 18:55
MASSIVE THANK YOU!
A huge appreciation for all involved in this project . We would love to thank Carbon Co-op for their commitment and cooperation in providing us with 5 case studies …More
Posted 19 May 2023 19:03