“Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing; A Co-design Workshop” one of the finalists for 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland

The Mental Health, Design, and Wellbeing: Co-design Workshop, led by the Assistant Head of School and the ArCCAT lead Dr Ro Spankie, was one of the three projects from the University of Westminster that were named finalists for prestigious 2023 Green Grown Awards UK & Ireland.

Dr Spankie said: “All of us involved are delighted the Co-Production Workshop has been selected as a Green Gown finalist under the category of Tomorrow’s Employers as the development of complex transferable skills relevant to future practice is exactly what the workshop sets out to do. It does this by offering students a unique, immersive and experiential learning experience that challenges the ‘conventional’ pedagogy of designer-client / expert-user, by putting forward the notion of the ‘experts by experience’.”

University of Westminster website
Video submission by the Mental Health, Design and Wellbeing; A Co-design Workshop group

To read more about this and other projects please visit here.

Final year BA and MArch Students: Visiting Consultant Sessions, Friday 31st March, 14:00-18:00

Technical Studies are organising Visiting Consultant Sessions for the 3rd year BA students and 2nd year MArch students to meet and discuss their work with various professionals in the field of architecture, engineering and environmental design.

To sign up please go to the notice board next to M503.

The available consultants are:

Dave Heely – Morph Structures (Structural Engineering)

Benson Lau – UOW (Architecture, Climate & Environmental Design)

Scott Batty – UOW / Scott Batty Architects (Detailing / Materials)

Oliver Houchell – Houchell Studio (Bridge and Structural Design / Architecture)

Jago Boase – StructureMode (Structural Engineering)

Andy Whiting – Hut Architecture (Detailing / Materials)

Yashin Kemal – Robin Partington and Partners (Detailing / Materials)

Chris Leung – Bartlett / UCL (Environmental Design and Engineering)

Will McLean – UOW

Final year BA and MArch Students: Visiting Consultant Sessions, Friday 24th March, 14:00-18:00

Technical Studies are organising Visiting Consultant Sessions for the 3rd year BA students and 2nd year MArch students to meet and discuss their work with various professionals in the field of architecture, engineering and environmental design.

To sign up please go to the notice board next to M503.

The consultants this year are:

Scott Batty – UOW / Scott Batty Architects (Detailing / Materials)

Chris Leung – Bartlett / UCL (Environmental Design and Engineering)

Will McLean – UOW

Andy Whiting – Hut Architecture (Detailing / Materials)

Yashin Kemal – Robin Partington and Partners (Detailing / Materials)

Ed Hollis – StructureMode (Structural Engineering)

Benson Lau – UOW (Architecture, Climate & Environmental Design)

Oliver Houchell – Houchell Studio (Bridge and Structural Design / Architecture)

Dave Heely – Morph Structures (Structural Engineering)