In this creative architecture workshop, inspired by the exhibition Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds, we will be imaging the most brilliant house you’ve ever seen: bright and exciting with everything you could possibly need or want –paddling pool, ball-pit room, roof-top star-garden, a walk-in cold cupboard for your ice cream collection, and a super slide which zooms you right into the loveliest snuggest bedroom. Everything you could need to get on with living your best life.
Sadly, there’s always a catch, we don’t actually have that much space, because of all these other things that are in the way; like tube lines, trees, mountains, and other people’s dream houses. Could all those funny-shaped spaces actually make us make the best buildings? We think you’re ready for this challenge.
About this session
In this workshop, participants are invited to find imaginative solutions to building their very own dream living space in really awkward places. We will work as a team in a series of games and practical challenges, looking at negative shapes and spaces, considering the particular qualities of different sites and structures, then exploring the properties of different materials, before designing and modelling our very own individual brilliant, beautiful, and funny-shaped houses.
This creative architecture workshop is led by artist educator Zoe Allen for children aged 7 to 10 years.
About Zoe Allen
Zoe Allen is an artist and educator who makes collage, assemblage, sculpture, and paintings. She uses materials foraged from sites which have particular meanings or memories, re-purposing these to create new conversations. Zoe also has a collaborative practice in which she works with other artists to create large scale installation informed by architectural forms and mechanisms.
