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Craig

I saw these quirky pics on someone else's blogger and thought that they were very interesting. They are street posters from Melbourne, they seem to be the work of some guy called Craig. I like the idea – it’s definitely a quirky conversation starter!

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Instructables

Check out this great endless resource for workshop and DIY ideas: 

http://www.instructables.com/

Practice.ie

Practice.ie is an on-line collaborative research space reporting on artists' practice with children and young people currently in development by Kids' Own, in partnership with Visual Artists Ireland. The aim of this work is to validate artists practice working with children/young people, To share approaches and practice and to enhance artists practice working with children/young people.

The Hammer Project

The Hammer Project



Hammer Youth Resource Centre
Agnes Street
Belfast BT13 1SH
Tel: 028 90249693

They offer a wide variety of facilities for local residents, including a main building, pavilion and football pitch. The centre caters for a range of ages and activities and offers courses in a number of areas, including computer and job skills.

This Extern children’s project works with 15 and 16-year-olds who have been excluded from formal education. It offers group work, formal qualifications and recreational activities.

They are one of four Digital Community project centres in Belfast. The project provides opportunities for computer training and community development. The group have a choose to run an art or music workshops. This year they choose art. I am facilitating this workshops with the aim to construct a wall piece. This will be located outside the community centre.

Sustainable Design Innovation Course

IT Carlow - Certificate in Sustainable Design Innovation

IT Carlow and the Design Ireland Skillnet has developed a Certificate (Level 9) in Sustainable Design Innovation | More detail: online | PDF Starting Date: Mid October 2008 (Subject to validation) Primarily this course aims to up skill practicing design professionals in the area of Sustainable Design Practice (SDP). Likely students on this programme would typically be designers, design managers, marketing managers and other business managers with responsibility for new product development (NPD), company strategy and design. Those interested in developing capacity in sustainable design and innovation as a business opportunity would also benefit from this programme. Programme fee: €900. The cost through the Design Ireland Skillnet Membership programme is €450 per person, a subsidy of 50%. See www.designireland.ie for details. Non-membership rate is €900 per person. Duration: 5 weeks-proposed for Saturdays 10 am - 1pm | 10 x 3 hour workshop/lectures/mentoring sessions and independent applied research project (with remote mentoring)

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 September 2008 )

Reflection from Summer

During the Summer I have: 

• Delivered play hut back to Cliftonville to Steven and Dan, 
  
• Documented changes to it
  

Originally I'd planned to continue with a week long workshop in Cliftonville but decided on a three-week summer scheme project instead as I wanted to explore differences between areas in Belfast. In BCC I've delivered art workshops, being employed as a Art CO-Ordinator for the summer scheme. There are a few questions I wish to consider:

• How has this position reflected in my practice and enhanced my research?

My observational experience from BCC has been the differences in the children. How available facilities influence a child development and imagination. How being close to nature even in a city is more important than man made environments.

• What was my creative input into the summer scheme? 

The summer scheme was completely left to me to design and plan except for the request to create banners for the fun day and exhibit the children's work in an indoor space provided. I was concerned with the 4-6 group as I hadn't worked with such a young age before.My creative input was in the planning of the workshops and in my decision making to produce video and audio spinoffs from the project. 

• What differenced are there between BCC and CCC - differences in my position, process and in developing relationships? 

I had a different position here in BCC than in CCC as with CCC it was a longer project where relationships could be established and an environment was created where I gained a greater insight into the groups needs. For the summer scheme it was a rapid turn over of children. Workshops ran for an hour each, managing groups of an adverage of 15. Also there was several volunteers supervising workshops. these volunteers had valuable skills that I only got to learn about as the workshops passed, for example bow and arrow making skills. The quick passed workshops were a lot less personal and the focus was on group creativity rather than individual. 

• What are the outcomes from short/long term projects? 

Apart from above, outcomes in a long term project can be more advance, sustainable, reflective and greater in standards of quality, in comparison to short turned over workshops. Having said that the large groups are great to work with for generating ideas and creating discussion. 

• Has my role changed as  a creative facilitator?

My role as a facilitator has improved with regards to planning, designing, providing materials and facilities. I've gained valuable knowledge in these areas. As a creative facilitator also I think because I'm adapting to a larger range, provoking news ways of creating and capturing a creative process and advancing in engaging groups 

• Is my research with BCC and CCC bringing me closer to setting up a play space? 

Yes it has. Learning what's important these children, what facilities are available, their closeness with nature, the effects of living in a Interface environment. All of which feeds into my research about children's sense of adventure or loss of in Northern Ireland, feeling safe in 'their' environments and what play spaces would benefit these children if any.

• What have I learnt from the hut making workshops in other areas? 

When the children in BCC were asked 'Have you ever made huts before? Where was it? What did you do in them?' nearly everyone had a story to tell from making huts with their bed sheets, to using the clothes line outside to being on the beach or in a forest. These children offered more. Was this because of their age? Was it because there's more challenging play environments available to them in their daily lives?