Date: 05 August 05
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Architrailer: On the Road
ArchiTrailer is a second hand Sunseeker Deluxe trailer tent. It has become the stimulus for an experimental collaboration between Chris Stewart Architects and The Lighthouse Education Team that challenges the conventions of architectural exhibitions and educational workshops...more
6000miles
As with previous exhibitions in the National Programme The Lighthouse organised a one-day seminar in conjunction with the 6000miles exhibition. While the last exhibition's seminars focused primarily on a further exploration of the exhibition's themes the intention for the 6000miles seminar was to concentrate on the actual exhibition itself....more | 6000miles education website
Common Place
The Common Place seminar, which is a title suggesting both belonging and location, aimed to progress the themes and issues raised by the exhibition, namely what are common places and what do they mean to us...more
The Big Issue
Collaborative work between The Lighthouse, The Big Issue and the Glasgow Institute of Architects orininated a year after the decisition to close down all hostals in line with government policy. It began in August 2001 with a workshop to start the process of examining the alternative to hostal living....Launch website.
Campbeltown Community Programme
The workshops for this Community Programme in Campbeltown began in February 2002. The result was a windshelter which was developed through collaboration between architects, artists, school pupils and local groups who worked with an open brief to devlop a built piece and its most appropriate location through a series of workshops.....Launch the website.
Displaced
disPLACED was a one day photographic workshop which explored the urban landscape in Glasgow. Mirrors and existing reflective surfaces were used to investigate buildings and how they can appeare disPLACED. Different formats of camera and types of film were used to explore further possibilities.....Launch the website.
Girvan Masterplan
In June 2004, The Lighthouse, it's National Programme and Education Team with Girvan Horizons and Sutherland Hussey Architects carried out a series of workshops and consultations with the Girvan community to produce a regeneration proposal for the town.....Launch the website.
Pigeonhole City
The Lighthouse and GLAS invite students of architecture to submit a proposal for an intervention that would be left in or become part of a space or building, a messaging system on architecture, its issues, events and objects.....Launch the website.
Anatomy of the house
This major seminar was aligned to the exhibition 'Anatomy of the House' which traces the development of Scottish Domestic architecture from the earliest times to the present day through a celebration of different projects, As the exhibition concludes by asking what the future holds, the seminar aimed to progress the themes and issues raised.....Launch the website.
At home in the city
A competition based project to combine resident aspiration with innovative approaches to living in the city. A collaboration between The Lighthouse and it's National Programme, Glasgow Housing Association, The Mackintosh School of Architecture, Strathclyde University’s Department of Architecture and The Saltire Society.....Launch the website.
6000 miles Education
The education project was designed to offer primary school students the opportunity to learn from the experance and creative practice of professional designers and architects shown in the 6000 miles exhibition, which explored the future of Scotland's coast...Launch the website
