Project Office
Description
Project Office is a design and research collaboration of staff and students, based in the Leeds School of Architecture at Leeds Beckett University. It is an architecture consultancy making ethical, social and resilient architecture. We work with like-minded communities, organisations and individuals.
Project Office has undertaken over 40 projects, most within Leeds City region. It offers a full architectural service that includes feasibility studies, design guides, design advocacy, research, fabrication and construction. Students and staff work together to produce design and research for organisations such as charities and community groups who are unable to afford architectural consultancy. Student participants are always paid for their time, either through the university currency of ‘credits’ awarded towards their degree, or financially working directly with Project Office. Project Office’s approach equips students with a valuable learning experience relating to real world complexities through the vehicle of Live Projects, whilst simultaneously supporting the needs of socially engaged organisations.
The end goal is using student design work to gain capital funding such that Project Office can build for collaborating organisations the facilities they need to address societal inequalities. In so doing, the process provides valuable learning experiences for students and collaborators by viewing academic endeavour as a resource for community empowerment. It has proved a successful approach, delivering a number of constructed projects and winning numerous awards including; the Live Projects Network Category of Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Award, RIBA Journal MacEwen Award for Social Architecture, and Universities UK MadeAtUni Campaign Winner.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2014
Contact details
Broadcasting Place
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9EN
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Categorisation
Type
Project Tags
Additional Partnerships
Various Third Sector Organisations
Last modified:
2024-06-13 11:35:18