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
