Building Schools for the Future
Cultural Masterplan
Kent
2007 - ongoing
CLIENT:Land Securities Trillium
PARTNERS:
Future Creative
The Building Schools for the Future programme is the biggest single government investment in improving school buildings for over 50 years. In 2007 Futurecity were invited to join the Land Securities/Trillium team bidding for the Kent BSF programme, covering 34 schools across the County. The resulting cultural strategy supported the bid offering a grassroots approach to the use of creativity in schools, this groundbreaking innovative document will see artists embedded in to the design teams at the start of the design process, influencing the architecture, infrastructure, internal spaces, colour and landscape, super graphics, street furniture and public art.
Futurecity have been assisted in devising the strategy by Future Creative an organisation charged with delivering creativity in schools. Futurecity reviewed the research material available on creativity in schools and the education sector and specifically the work of the Sorrell Foundation. The resulting strategy document utilised the work of Futurecity in the private sector offering a groundbreaking approach to the use of arts in schools, via a workable document offering creativity in schools and providing deliverable costed ideas that can work in the context of the current programme of private sector PPF and D&B partnerships to build schools in Kent.
Futurecity have been assisted in devising the strategy by Future Creative an organisation charged with delivering creativity in schools. Futurecity reviewed the research material available on creativity in schools and the education sector and specifically the work of the Sorrell Foundation. The resulting strategy document utilised the work of Futurecity in the private sector offering a groundbreaking approach to the use of arts in schools, via a workable document offering creativity in schools and providing deliverable costed ideas that can work in the context of the current programme of private sector PPF and D&B partnerships to build schools in Kent.