a centre for place-making
Charitra Techasawat joins MADE as Learning Spaces Living Places 2 Evaluation Co-ordinator
There is an opportunity for five architects to join artists involved in the Birmingham Building Schools for the Future programme as part of Learning Spaces Living Places 2. We will be running ‘Interactive Architecture’ on the 5th July in Birmingham and can offer 5 bursaries of £200 to architects who are interested in exploring artistic collaboration and interactive technologies in their practice.
Wychavon District Council has announced the winners of its coveted Design Awards. The biannual awards now in their 10th year seek to recognise design excellence in the district with high quality entries this year making judging all the more difficult.
MADE will be hosting a tour of Birmingham's modern architecture with 100 architects from the Netherlands.
RIBA is planning to celebrate all things architectural from the 15th to the 24th June with talks, walks, films and exhibitions.
Wyre Forest District Council are looking to commission an artist to create a unique public artwork to be located at their new headquarters building. An all inclusive budget of £3,500k is available.
Veteran community planning expert Nick Wates to speak at summer school
The independent Birmingham Architecture Festival will be hosted in May 2013 with a series of events designed to inspire the public, creative communities, construction professionals and architects alike to engage with the city in fun, inventive and thought-provoking ways.
MADE MADE leads consortia bid to raise community-led engagement and participation in the arts in Cannock and Tamworth.
MADE is working with West Midlands Councils to explore how we can provide packages of design support for their members.
Nicholas Falk, of Urbed has been confirmed as one of the keynote speakers at this year’s urban design summer school.
In June MADE will be curating 'Residential Futures', an exibition to promote high quality housing design
The NPPF provides all the ammunition required to press for design quality, if we take steps to use it.
The National Planning Policy Framework foresees a stronger role for design reviw in the planning process.
MADE has reduced its staff team but continues to offer a broad range of projects and services.
Carrot City, and exhibition about urban agriculture is coming to Birmingham in April.
Birmingham City Council has started the public consultation on the new Sustainable Development guidance called "Places for the Future".
Thanks to a grant from Design Council Cabe, MADE is working with the community and a building preservation trust to bring new life to The Charterhouse Coventry.
Nominations are open for the IDEA Birmingham awards celebrating Midlands design
Two major Birmingham regeneration schemes are to come to design reviews in March.
Education specialists from continental Europe invited to Birmingham in October 2012
A report on the first and second days at The Public in West Bromwich
What makes a good place, MADE's informal learning programme for people who want to be more active in their neighbourhoods has started in Birmingham, Coventry and Walsall.
With the Localism Act now law and its provisions expected to come into effect in April, communities all over the West Midlands are considering whether a neighbourhood plan would benefit their area.
Jane Jacobs paradigm-shifting book on urban planning: The Death and Life of Great American Cities has just turned 50. What better way to celebrate than to read it together...and win a special edition!
Nominations for the Housing Design Awards close on the 1st March
urban design summer school 2012
MADE is looking to appoint a small number of Events Assistants to support the running and organisation of a variety of events that take place in our new space at Newhall Square.
MADE supports this major season of exhibitions, talks and activities at The Public, which runs from 26th January to 20th May 2012
Birmingham School of Architecture's international landscape architecture lecture series returns in the new year
The HCA Hub at Hereford College of Arts has just been completed.
England needs a networked system of design support, providing local people with access to built environment expertise and advice, according to the Bishop Review.
Design quality will be vital to the new planning regime in which the Government is insisting we say ‘yes’ to proposals for sustainable development
Officers from Solihull Council stepped out into a chilly Leamington town centre recently in the first session of a design training programme supported by MADE.
MADE is looking for sites where artists could stretch imaginations, challenge assumptions and provoke change.
Congratulations to Birmingham City Council and its partners who won the overall prize at the UK Housing Awards for Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust.
Congratulations to JCB Academy, overall winner in the Southern Staffordshire Design Awards.
Led by the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country a partnership of organisations in the conurbation is developing a bid to Government for a Nature Improvement Area.
MADE is seeking new members to join its board of directors.
MADE has organised a study visit to Copenhagen on behalf of the ESF Skills for Climate Change project
Five bursaries are available for architects wanting to work with artists in the built environment.
We have retained our Learning Outside the Classroom Badge!
An enjoyable visit to London
MADE introduces Canadian author and community activist Mary Rowe to Birmingham
Stiirchley prospects a project helping local residents explore the past, present and future of this Birmingham suburb is now underway.
If you have never been to design review and want a taste of what it is like, why not come along as an observer?
Thanks to grants from the Skills Funding Agency and Design Council CABE, MADE is expanding its work with communities
Over the next few weeks MADE will be piloting the use of StickyWorld, a secure online system for reviewing plans and documents, for design review.
Every two years Wychavon District Council run the Building Design Awards to recognise building projects that show real design quality, craftsmanship and sustainable building practices. Its that time again now. The deadline for entries is 16th September.
MADE have produced a simple leaflet to explain to potential applicants the benefits of using design review.
MADE has teamed up with our friends at Urban Design London (UDL) to bring their highly successful training programme to the Midlands. Thousands of planners, transport planners, regeneration and housing professionals have attended its courses in the capital. Now they will be available in Birmingham.
With interest in Neighbourhood Planning growing MADE is launching a new Network to help support those interested in, or worried by, this new development.
The newly-issued draft national planning policy framework promotes the use of national and local design review.
MADE explores public space through sonar
MADE has welcomed the Department for Education (DfE) announcement of a new school rebuilding programme – targeted at schools in the worst condition across England.
Design Council CABE has announced two new grant programmes to be awarded to locally-based organisations in England to work with their communities and raise their aspiration for the design quality of their area.
MADE is hosting a challenge day for Common Purpose Frontrunner
MADE challenged architects to redesign the table tennis table as part of Ping! Brum
MADE's phone now works! Our new number is 0121 348 7980
Jane has just returned from a study visit to Germany on vocational education
A letter has gone out from the Chief Planner, Steve Quartermain to Chief Planning Officers in all local authorities underlining the continued importance of design quality in new developments.
Anthony's latest update from his Transversal study visit to Ornskoldsvik, Sweden looking at the value of learning outside the classroom.
Cultural Development Adviser, Anthony Ruck is taking part in a Transversal study visit to Ornskoldsvik, Sweden looking at the value of learning outside the classroom. Here is his first update.
Anthony Ruck is spending a week in Sweden learning about Creativity and the environment in education.
MADE is to receive £65,000 from Design Council CABE to support design review
MADE is inviting architecture firms to offer bursaries for the forthcoming International Urban Design Summer School to aspiring young designers. The initiative is aimed at inspiring the next generation of architects by underwriting their attendance at the high profile event, which is to be held in Birmingham from 19-22 June.
The Design Council has launched a national consultation on the future of design support. The review was launched on the first day that the Design Council officially merged with CABE. As part of the review MADE will be co-hosting an event with Design Council CABE at our premises in central Birmingham on 20th May. Further details will follow soon.
We have ten sheets of white styrene for sale.
MADE has successfully applied to Arts Award to become a Welcome Organisation
MADE will not be part of the Arts Council National Portfolio for 2012-15.
MADE is creating a new space for training and other events at our premises at Newhall Square
MADE recently took a group of members and officers on a visit to the exemplary housing development Port Marine in Portishead.
From April 1st MADE's design review service enters a new era. We will be introducing a charge for schemes to come to design review.
We are refreshing our expert panel that proivdes advice, support and design review for local authorities, communities, designers and developers.
Using the latest digital technologies to capture the microscopic wonders of minerals and rocks Richard is pioneering unique new forms of architectural glass, fashion fabrics, ceramics and woven rugs.
MADE can now support young people's arts skills and leadership through Arts Award
MADE and Birmingham School of Architecture at Birmingham City University is hosting a Talking Cities lecture tonight (23rd February) presented by Prof Ruth Morrow from Queen’s University Belfast.
Right now, MADE has resources to provide free help with neighbourhood planning. From April 1st we hope to have further funding from the Government to continue this work.
MADE has been appointed as project managers for Birmingham’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) artist and architect collaboration programme, Learning Spaces Living Places.
Volunteer architect required for Ugandan project
Victoria School has received a CABE education grant to take science learning outside the classroom
The first two local authorities have agreed to subscribe to MADE’s design excellence services in 2011-12.
The MADE international urban design summer school will take place in Birmingham from the 19th – 22nd June 2011.
A community consultation exercise with the residents of Kidderminster on the regeneration of Churchfields has been very successful. The consultation used a physical model and a drop-in consultation shop, and was supported by a website to allow conversation to continue.
A new project will offer businesses a unique opportunity to develop their services and engage with project contracts in sustainable building renovation.
Potential architects and designers can find out about potential careers at the Bright Space creative careers festival
Victoria School, Birmingham will receive a £50,000 People's Millions Lottery grant for students to design and make better use of their school grounds, in a project supported by MADE
The last structural timber frames were completed at the UK’s largest low energy Passivhaus eco-home development in Coventry recently. Orbit Homes, is investing £2.8 million in building 23 new affordable and highly energy efficient homes at Sampson Close.
October’s design review saw the panel looking at two proposals for retirement communities, a masterplan for a residential development in the Black Country and a supermarket proposal for a sensitive market town site.
At a time when various publicly funded bodies are closing down a lot of people are asking about the future of MADE.
Coventry's Electric Wharf has won 'outstanding place of the decade' at the RegenWM awards.
MADE has created a temporary design studio as part of a masterplanning process for Churchfields, Kidderminster
Schools are invited to apply for a CABE education grant (deadline: 5 November).
As part of a process of developing new services for local authorities MADE is pleased to be able to offer a limited number of free in-house training sessions for elected members. The training will focus on urban design and place-making and could be targeted at cabinet and planning committee members, or offered to all elected members.
MADE is pioneering a new way of working with Wyre Forest Council as they develop a masterplan for a neighbourhood close to Kidderminster town centre
MADE has moved to 6-7 Newhall Square, off Newhall Street in Birmingham city centre on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter.
MADE is delivering a new flexible study module on The Sustainable Built Environment at Aston University, Birmingham. Starts January 2011
