AHMM 2024 Summer School 09.08.24

Last week AHMM held its annual summer school across our London and Bristol offices.

Aimed at young people aged 16-18 years old, the Summer School is an important part of our Partnerships work to support the future architecture profession and help to ensure it is diverse.

The topic of this year’s Summer School was ‘Children’s Right to the City’, with students exploring the role of children and young people in city-making and considering how young communities can reclaim space to play, learn and grow in the city.

Over the week 18 young people in London and six in Bristol participated in workshops introducing them to new ways to observe and explore the space surrounding them, including architectural drawing, understanding CDM, modelmaking, routes into architecture, site visits, sustainability, collaborative creativity, and daily mentoring.

Over the week, to support the development of their work and ideas, the young people engaged with charities and organisations who promote equality and support socially excluded young people, provide awareness and knowledge of city making to young people, and who enhance young people’s and children’s access to the built environment. These included members from Narrative Practice, the Royal College of Art MA Interior Design programme, and participants from Chickenshed.