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Tribe of Doris Kids Workshops

Tribe of Doris summer school ran from a beautiful location near Wellington, Devon. This was a 5 day long event with action packed workshops on Djembe Drumming to Flemenco dancing and much more. Teachers at the top of their professions come from across the world to teach there.
I facilitated 10 kids workshops of 2 hours each, making everything from scrap and waste. Projects covered Dreamcatchers, Wish flags, Mini Djembe Drums, Rainsticks, re-cycled collage T-shirts plus much more.
This was a brilliant place to teach and so much fun. The kids were great and it was a pleasure to see them again and again at the craft workshops. Everyone at the festival really embraced the spirit of the Summer Camp and I would hghly recommend you going in the future especially if you need a little bit of Creative TLC.

www.tribeofdoris.co.uk

St Werburghs Arts Trail

A community arts project, enabling all residents of a street in Bristol to take part in a wider community arts event. The project inlcuded collaging portraits onto bunting; workshops, a street party, collage packs and a website. The project aims were to promote neighbourliness as well as allowing the art event to be more inclusive to the whole community.

City Academy

2 lessons focusing on strategies to reduce product impact on the environment and why that is critical in today's market.

Stokes Croft Festival

15 Kids took part in a free workshop to design and make a collage on a T-shirt, taking their influence from the area around Stokes Croft. All materials used were second hand, recycled or scrap. This was part of a brilliant all day, free event, run by Coexst, PRSC and Bristol Festival.

Pimlico School, London

Working with a team of EAL students, this was a student lead project to design and implement a successful school recycling system along with finding ways to reduce or re-use school waste.

Hamworthy First School

300 students from Hamworthy First school in Poole, Dorset took part in creating a 3D display on the effects of climate change on Air, Land and Sea.

The project was run during the schools environment week and students produced creatures, plants and weather patterns from scrap materials.

Students were talked through climate change and attached a parcel tag to their object saying how climate change would effect it.
The Display was shown in the schools studio and spanned 4metres by 2.5metres.

Cotham High School Material Properties Workshop

Materials Properties Workshop at Cotham School

A group of 25 students at year 11 and 12 were given a project to design and make a product from an existing waste item.

They researched the material property of the object and from that designed a new product depending on the materials they were working with.

This was a one day project which included brief, introduction Powerpoint, research material properties resources, scrap objects and small prizes for the winning design.

Design 4 Life

An experimental project working with Fairbridge West. A series of Design workshops for young people at risk of social exclusion. Two workshops a month on practical making assignments to produce eco-products that have a low impact on the environment.

Workshops include screen printing T-shirts, refurbishing furniture, jewellery making and customising clothing.

All products were sold around Bristol and money raised went back to the charity.

www.fairbridge.org.uk/west/

Envired at the D&T Show, Birmingham NEC

This was the first year that Envired had a stand at the D&T show. It was lovely to meet everyone that visited the stand.

If you would like the free sustainable design power point that was given out at the show then please email me with your name, position and school and I will email it to you.

Charlotte charlotte@envired.co.uk

Eco Fair project at Ravensbourne School

A 6 week programme written for Ravensbourne School in Bromley where students were given a brief to design and make new products from waste, over 9 lessons.

Students initially worked with a practicing designer who presented examples of her work.

A full SoW was written for the department and resources provided so that teachers could deliver the programme.

This project was written for the full year 8 cohort over all material disciplines. The project concluded in the students running an Eco Fair to sell the products to raise money. Students raised over £300 pounds which was then given to a chosen charity.