Cripplegate Foundation Funding News

Following on from a very successful one year pilot project, we are delighted to announce we have been awarded a two year grant by the Cripplegate Foundation, to continue developing our work with older people in Islington.

Over the next two years we plan to continue working with our Islington History and Architecture Group, and to engage more isolated and harder to reach people. We also aim to identify ways in which older people can become more routinely involved in commenting on local and regional development plans and built environment policy. 

 The group visits the new and old Highbury stadiums with Sami from Aresnal in the Community

The Islington History and Architecture Group gives older Islington residents access to unique opportunities to learn about their local history and architecture through talks, tours and visits to buildings, regeneration projects,  green and public spaces.

 On a walking tour of Islington with Billy from English Heritage

For more information on our work with older people in Islington and in Hackney, please visit our website or contact karen@buildingexploratory.org.uk

The Cripplegate Foundation is an independent charity working in Islington and parts of the City of London. Their vision is of a society free from poverty and the effects of inequality, where the potential and aspirations of all local people are fully realised.

For more information on the Cripplegate Foundation and their work please visit their website at www.cripplegate.org/

Haggerston on Film

Quality Badge Awarded

We are delighted that we have once again been awarded a Quality Badge by the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (lOtC).

The badge is a nationally recognised indicator of good quality educational provision, helping  reduce the red tape associated with learning outside the classroom and thereby making it easier for teachers and other education providers to incorporate learning outside of the classroom into the everyday curriculum.

For more information on The lOtC and the Quality Badge, please click here. 

Discovering Dalston for the Barbican

On Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June the Building Exploratory encouraged visitors to the Barbican's Dalston House, to discover the secrets of their local environment in 2 family friendly workshops.

We looked at how terraced houses like Dalston House developed, and discovered the changes in the area using historic maps.

Visitors added houses and street maps to giant drawings, and had a go at creating their own mirrored houses and backwards messages. 

These workshops were commissioned by the Barbican for the opening weekend of Dalston House by Leandro Erlich.

Dalston House is free to visit, in Ashwin Street, E8 3DL until the 4th August. Please click here for more information.

Architecture and Built Environment Centres Network Launch

Building Exploratory director Nicole Crockett, pictured above with colleagues from the Architecture and Built Environment Centres Network (ABECN) and Ed Vaisey, Minister for Culture, Communication and the Creative Industries at the relaunch on Tuesday 18 June 2013.

The ABECN is a collective of fourteen centres from around the UK. 
Architecture Minister Ed Vaizey officially launched the Network in the morning before the roundtable examined how to improve design quality across all areas of the built environment. Topics ranged from the influence of government policy and economic factors to the value and efficacy of design reviews on project quality and delivery, and focused in particular on how to collectively improve the quality of residential projects. 

Lambeth Treasures Exhibition - Southbank Centre Festival of Neighbourhood

Lambeth Treasures is an exhibition dedicated to Lambeth, created by the Building Exploratory in collaboration with the Southbank Centre.

Through a combination of archive material, commissioned artworks, objects, films and installations, Lambeth Treasures is a multi-sensory exhibition that celebrates the Southbank Centre's local neighbourhood and what it means to live, work and love Lambeth. 

The exhibition is open now, in the Spirit Level of Royal Festival Hall, and will run till September.  

Our phone line is back!

Normal service is resumed - apologies if you have had trouble contacting us over the past week. Our normal phone number is back to normal now.