Hopes, Dreams & Designs

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  York

• Posted: 14/10/2009 11:11

Saturday 24 October 2009, 3:30pm – 8:00pm
The Guildhall, St Helens Square, York, YO1 9QN

City of York Council is carrying out a year-long programme called People Changing Places (PCP) to find out what people think of York’s outdoor spaces as they are now, and how they could look in the future. The results of the consultation will feed into a Public Realm Strategy for the city centre area.

We will be temporarily transforming Exhibition Square in York on 21st and 22nd of November. We want to know more about your ideas for how this space could be transformed.

Ahead of the Transformation the ‘Hopes, Dreams and Designs’ workshop will build on the ‘Placecheck’ and ‘A Grand Day Out to Sheffield’ events and inform the content of the Transformation.

The transformation will challenge the status quo of our public spaces. It is not intended to be a permanent fixture but an opportunity to re imagine the way we view and use our public spaces. Through a creative and collaborative process the workshops and transformation will aim to raise aspirations for good design and high quality public realm in York.

Architects DSDHA in collaboration with BEAM will lead the workshop. We have some outline ideas for how the space can be physically transformed, but want to investigate these further with the general public and understand how the proposals could potentially be moulded to incorporate the types of use, extent of space and physical aspirations that they have for the square.

Participants input may be in the form of memories you have about the square and surrounding area, long-held desires for improvements, ideas on how the space could be animated during the transformation or material changes that they have desired to see within the place. The workshop will also include the group visiting projects involved in Illuminate York.

Buffet & Refreshments are included! Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis so please get in touch as soon as possible.

To book your FREE place contact Ann Sweeney on: 01924 215550 or email ann@beam.uk.net

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