Group 03 BRICK BY BRICK (Posted 19 May 2025 22:33) – MSA LIVE 25

05.19 _ WORKSHOP DAY1

Today marked the first workshop day that we’ve been preparing for, and we quickly realised that we couldn’t really be prepared for what we had to come. While the day didn’t go completely to plan - including trouble with Wi-Fi meaning we couldn’t project the PowerPoint so Henry had to improvise (he deserves a real ‘well done’ for that) - the day was lots of fun, and we hope educational for the children as much as it was for us. For a lot of the group, it’s the first time we’ve worked with young children, and for some of us that have worked with younger children, it feels like it’s been a long time, so It has been a fun and interesting learning curve for all of us.

After the initial, partially improvised, PowerPoint in the hall, we went on a ‘site visit’ to look at the caretakers building that we have been working on and got the children to draw and note what they could see in the building and what more they want from it. The students got involved talking to the children about their ideas and why they wanted what they had drawn (ready for designs later on). We were really impressed with the creativity of the children and the variety of ideas that they were able to produce in a short amount of time with not too much prompting from us. Perhaps there are already a few budding architects in the group!

Next, we returned to the children’s three separate classrooms and got to paper folding. We were able to work with the children in smaller groups and got to know each of their personalities a bit better. There was such a variety in the decorated and built paper nets, really showing off each of the children’s personalities.

The day was a lot of fun (if tiring) with a promising start to the workshop and the ideas that could come from it. We’re ready and excited for the full day of work tomorrow getting more in depth with what an architect is and does and teaching the children some new things about the profession. We are hoping we can get them excited about the work and get some more great ideas generated in the coming activities that we can use later this week in a proposal of our own for the site.

Posted 19 May 2025 22:33