2023 Young City Makers
Congratulations to Cyril Jackson Primary School year 6 students who won first place in the Open City Young City Makers model-making category at a celebration event at Tower Hamlets Town Hall on November 29th.
As the school’s partner this year, the practice led a visit to the studio’s projects in Covent Garden and two in-school interactive design workshops in September and October.
The students transformed the Limehouse Basin into a sustainable, car-free neighbourhood with floating homes, underwater workspaces, clean wild swimming spaces, urban woodlands, and tall landmarks powered by the basin Thames tide, wind turbines and solar panels; all set within a colourful urban landscape where you can grow your own food and relax on floating playgrounds.
The pupils learnt the importance of environmental, social and cultural sustainability, what is and isn’t sustainable, and began with a poem, a short story, and a collage which they then transformed into their sustainable Limehouse Basin model.
