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co:lab
Co:lab
CO:LAB
Co.LAB is a multifaceted organisation embedded within the School of Architecture at Birmingham City University with a focus on exploration, employability and collaboration. It acts as a vehicle to directly engage the school, its staff and students to collaborate (Co.) with ‘partners’ across the city within the disciplines of architecture, landscape and urbanism as a laboratory (LAB). Co.LAB was developed to continue the school’s collaborative spirit expanding on the prosperous creative and professional network in the region. We believe this approach can foster distinct benefits towards educational, entrepreneurial and socially-driven solutions for our clients – whilst responding to the contemporary issues of our unique urban setting. Students from both the undergraduate and postgraduate course work together in groups on a number of small projects ranging from consultation, research and design feasibilities. Their output is presented to our partners with some projects then developed further as extracurricular activities between students, staff and the project partners.
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