Theres a Good Idea!
beam encourages creative thinking about regeneration...
Urban design, architecture, public art, and engineering, deployed in our streets, buildings, parks, and public spaces, are what makes the public realm look good and function well. Good public realm creates a sense of safety, ownership, efficiency, and delight, attracting tourists and business investment.
Regeneration can't be just top-down or professional-led. It needs the involvement of users and local people, who can inform the work of the professionals to bring their skills to bear in an appropriate way.
People Making Places. The story so far - and what next?
by Robert Powell
Robert Powell outlines the origins and development of the "People Making Places" programme and speculates on its future and that of similar initiatives. Extract from "People Making Places: Imagination in the Public Realm".
Imagine!
by Will Alsop
What is a public space, and what is it for? Architect Will Alsop contemplates the definition of the “public realm”, and proposes a wider role for artists and citizens.Extract from "People Making Places: Imagination in the Public Realm".
Dealing With Commissioners (and Living to Tell the Tale) by David Mach
“If they want you to play God they should give you a bigger budget!” David Mach on being commissioned to produce art. Extract from: “Making Places: Working with Art in the Public Realm”
Realisation. A book of ideas for our new school
As part of Barnsley’s ambitious Re-Making Learning Programme the Priory Sports College and Willowgarth High School will shortly merge and have a new school building. While Re-Making Learning is about more than new school buildings, and intends to transform the borough’s approach to learning – it is our view that the design of those new schools will play an important part in what takes place within them.
Sketchbook of ideas created by the pupils