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RISE & DESIGN TALK

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Steve spoke at the Rise & Design event run by Design Network North

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Plywood with Soul 2:

A montage of photos from the plywood with soul project including food, post it notes and woodworking projects

empowering asylum seekers through co-design & digital manufacturing; fostering creativity, dialogue & mutual support

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#HowTo make a Window Garden

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Whilst in lockdown the Urban Workbench team are making things at home and sharing them with you here

Today – Steve is making a series of hanging shelves with empty food tins as the pots for seedlings and plants cultivated from todays dinner

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Plywood with Soul

Plywood with Soul

Steve Threlfall our Design Director, has just returned from an exciting residency at Medialab Prado in Madrid. His proposal was selected from proposals by 50 idea makers selected in turn by the European Culture Foundation from more than 500 proposals from 50 countries. For the project ‘Contrachapado con Alma’ (Plywood

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Our First Community Build

Urban Workbench We Make Places team

The day after We Make Places’ symposium The Maverick City we tested the Urban Workbench Community Build model. This was a way our symposium would give something back to one of the communities we work with in Liverpool and we chose West Everton Community Council – our very close neighbours.

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Introducing Urban Workbench

Introducing Urban Workbench
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About Urban Workbench

Urban Workbench is a We Make Places project which invites local, often marginalised or socially isolated people and groups to develop skills in basic joinery, DIY, furniture making, upcycling and construction, whilst growing their capacity to contribute to positive social activism.

Our learning delivery and live projects offer a 'holistic' approach to skills development, with a primary focus on well-being and self-confidence of individuals and their communities.

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