Co.Lab projects this year included; • • • • • • • • •
100 Stories, partner Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Trust. Brick Assembly, partner Ibstock Brick. Free City of Birmingham, partner School of English and Tom Keeley. Zero Carbon Design and Retrofit, partner MA Zero Carbon Design and Retrofit. Transit Spaces, partner HS2. The Modern Gazetteer, partners RIBA WM with Scan the World, &Model Gallery Leeds. Production Show: Make Do Type, partner Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Latrine Dreams, partner Water.org. Knowledge Exchange, multiple partners in practices of part time students as a pilot scheme to give greater recognition to work undertaken in and with practices.
Further details can be found at birmingham-colab.org Special Study, gives students an opportunity to choose between a conventional written dissertation or a practice based and academically referenced piece of work. The latter is seen as an extension of the Co.Lab module and offers students the opportunity to develop their own practice. We hope you enjoy the selection of work shown here. If you’d like to know more about the course or studios, please do not hesitate to contact me at the address below. Mike Dring MArch Architecture Programme Director
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