{"id":2254,"date":"2012-11-20T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:40:07","slug":"the-shape-of-things-to-come-design-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2012\/11\/20\/the-shape-of-things-to-come-design-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The shape of things to come – design project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
Over 100 third-year Auchinleck Academy pupils had their first taste of the design process, as Interaction<\/em> launched in nine secondary schools across East Ayrshire.<\/p>\n

Architect David Ross of Keppie Design said: \u201cIt may seem almost chaotic in the early stages, but we want the young people to experience going through the process of changing and evolving ideas, to get to a final design. This is what architects do\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Interaction<\/em> project calls for students to respond to specific needs in their own schools, leading to the actual realisation of built structures.<\/p>\n

The youngsters\u2019 brief for the morning was to work in groups, mentored by seniors, to design and build a 1:20 scale model for a structure to display and sell products.<\/p>\n

On hand to help were David Ross; Hanneke Scott van-Wel, architect with Stone Opera; and Kathy Li, also of Stone Opera and part-time lecturer in architecture at Glasgow School of Art (GSA). Ian Hope of Hope Homes \u2013 builders of Cumnock\u2019s Knockroon development, in a partnership with the Prince\u2019s Charities Foundation – also dropped in to see the potential architects at work.<\/p>\n

Headteacher Peter Gilchrist was delighted with the enthusiasm shown by his students and praised their creativity.<\/p>\n

Hanneke Scott van-Wel said: \u201cToday\u2019s event is just a taster for the bigger project. Pupils will be asked to work on individual designs for a moveable structure to be used in selling products made in school. It must be flexible, portable, fit to be used outdoors and it must reflect the school identity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will work in art and technical classes on their designs up until Christmas, when one winning design will be selected from each school. That design will be constructed as a model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe finalists will go forward to a Dragons\u2019 Den type contest, where all nine schools will come together and a winner will be chosen. By the end of the school year, the structures will be realised.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Ross stressed that the design brief was a guide and was open to interpretation – different schools could evolve their own ideas. Kilmarnock Academy, for example, is coming up with ideas around a prototype racing car model!<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cInteraction<\/em> will involve a number of departments in each school working on the problem simultaneously. We hope that art, technical, business and IT departments would form the core teams for this exercise\u201d.<\/p>\n

Councillor Iain Linton, Spokesperson for Lifelong Learning, said: \u201cThis initiative is in the early stages but has all the hallmarks of a unique and innovative project which will enhance what is already on offer in the curriculum, by giving students the opportunity to work with professionals and experts in their fields\u201d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 100 third-year Auchinleck Academy pupils had their first taste of the design process, as Interaction launched in nine secondary schools across East Ayrshire. Architect David Ross of Keppie Design said: \u201cIt may seem almost chaotic in the early stages, but we want the young people to experience going through the process of changing and … Continue reading The shape of things to come – design project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologies-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}