IMPRESSIONS - COLOUR + SOUND
Runs: 15.10.2004 to 02.02.2005

An exhibition of models, drawings and film in which Year Six children and their teachers from St Clement's Primary School, Higher Openshaw, Manchester, worked with actors, artists and musicians. Together they recorded their impressions of the colour and sound encountered as they approached, entered and travelled through the spaces and enclosures that make up the building in which the workshop took place.

The workshop entitled Impressions - Colour + Sound is the fourth stage of the Transformations project that is a collaboration between Education @ CUBE and the Horse and Bamboo Theatre. They are working together to develop a methodology by which young people and their teachers can be introduced to the experience of architecture through theatre.

The basis on which the project has been developed is to avoid the stereotypical presentation of architecture in education as buildings viewed externally without any sense of their interior. The aim of the project is to provide a sensory understanding of architecture and townscape from within as defined spaces enclosed by structure and materials and illuminated with levels of light.

The first stage of the project was Solids Voids + Surfaces and introduced children and teachers to the experience of a journey through an imaginary building from the basement to the attic.

The second stage of the project was Place + Location and introduced children and their teachers to the sensory experience of place through visual theatre. The workshop introduced the idea of a built environment having Œa sense of place‚ through the topography of landscape and the cultural forms of architecture and townscape.

The third stage of the project was Walking through Walls and this explored the role of the built environment in promoting creative learning in children. This workshop was based on research that indicates that a large part of creative learning is experiential and so the learning process should be located in place.

Edward Casey in his book 'Remembering'‚ states "What is contained in place is on its way to being well remembered. What is remembered is well grounded if it is remembered as being in a particular place."




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