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Live/Work spaces The project 'Live/Work spaces' is running from September 2004 until autumn 2005. Twelve participants from the local community have been selected by The Public to take part in the project, working in collaboration with professional mentors including planners, designers and building specialists to design prototype live/work spaces at the Commercial X-Ray Factory. Architect Will Alsop launched the project on Friday, 10 September 2004 at the X-Ray Factory, a month long programme followed by intensive workshops, group discussions and guest speakers including presentations by Wolfgang Weileder, Professor of Fine Arts at the Newcastle University School of Arts and Cultures, and Alexandra Viehhauser, education programme manager at the Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna. The latter and two of the mediators in her team, Ulrike Kohnen-Zülzer and Anne Wübben, and in collaboration with a local Birmingham school organised the workshop 'minimal housing'. A second phase of the project will take place next autumn, followed-up by an illustrated publication documenting all of the projects. The former Commercial X-Ray Factory was built in the 1900s in the Soho district of Smethwick, West Midlands. It has become a space for creative projects including art installations, community events and the current Live/Work project. The Public, based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands, has led award-winning creative projects working with communities, artists and partner organisations for over thirty years. The Public building designed by Will Alsop is to be operational in winter 2005. |
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