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MADE produce a number of publications: Most can be downloaded below and in some cases hard copies are available - please contact the office for these Annual Report 2006-2007Our Annual Report and financial statements for the financial year ending March 31 2007 can be downloaded here . Annual Report 2005-2006Our Annual Report and financial statements for the financial year ending March 31 2006 can be downloaded here . Making Sense of Places
Youth SpaceThe Youth Space Publication and DVD details the innovative programme which has operated across the West Midlands Region. The collaborative project between young people, architects and artists has resulted in six regional youth spaces which, if not already complete, are nearing completion, indicate diverse working methods and results. This publication and film celebrate the project, highlight the benefits and importance of collaborative working methods and describe its effect on communities.
Live/workThis is a study of the potential of a new planning concept of live/work development; accommodation that combines residential and business space for individual households within a single building or site, and is therefore in planning terms neither one thing nor the other, but a hybrid. In historical terms, it is only fairly recently, since the industrial revolution, that people have worked anywhere but at home. Only in the past two hundred years have we begun to create separate districts for living, working, shopping and entertainment. We are now revising this orthodoxy of separate land uses, and replacing it by the principle of mixed uses. Live/work is a special variety of this principle. The study identifies several reasons why the time is right for its reintroduction in a modern form. Despite the talk of an urban renaissance, there is a continuing decentralisation of population and employment away from major urban centres. Commuting to work is increasingly problematic and time-consuming, whether by private or public transport. Further, the economics of work is seeing a growth in both the number of employees working wholly or partly from home - "teleworking" - and the number of self-employed freelance workers. Interestingly, the biggest growth in freelance workers is both in the densely populated London metropolis and in sparsely populated rural counties like Shropshire and Herefordshire. The study examines in detail the opportunities and constraints for the development of live/work in the four different types of spatial context identified by MADE for its forthcoming live/work development project; city centre, restructuring city suburb, urban-rural fringe, and remote rural. The authors consulted a number of people with relevant experience in planning, development and design, and visited some of the small number of developments which have been built, with a detailed study made of Creative Lofts in Huddersfield. You can download the full report here
If you always do what you have always done - The value of the arts in regeneration practice
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With this shared belief, MADE, IXIA and Public Art West Midlands (PAWM) commissioned MUF artists and architects to make a visual intervention outside Birmingham's International Convention Centre for the Urban Sumit 31 October-1 November 2002. This saw 200 pumpkins installed at the canalside at the ICC in Birmingham. The report below is a further result of the ongoing strategic colloaboration between MADE, PAWM and IXIA.
