The Contested Peripheries Tuesdays sessions have now ended so workshop opening hours will return to normal for all students.
Tuesday 09.30am – 4.30pm
Also, a reminder that we are open until Wednesday 16th April before closing for Easter for a week.
See you soon, Scott
Baljit is using a slide system to convey the different mapping she has looked at in her study of Warrington High Street.
The key question for this project was ‘What is the future of the High Street?’.
The project has looked at empty shop spaces and their potential for non retail use as a reinvention of the traditional high street. Baljit mapped the variety of creative industries in the Warrington area and is looking at the potential to place them within the empty high street store spaces.
Her main site focus is the Garnetts Cabinet Works which is due to be demolished. By using this site as an ‘incubator’ or hub for creative services, Baljit proposes a ‘launch site’ for services that would normally be based outside of the high street with the Garnetts site acting as the gateway for those services.
This working model is constructed as a grid allowing pins to be placed in the board to indicate changes in site flow at specific locations across the high street and bigger city site.Points of intervention can easily be updated by simply relocating the relevant pin. Â Each mapped industry or feature has been screen printed onto acrylic slides which are stored in the base of the model and slotted in above the engraved map and below the grid. This model will continue to change and inform as this project is refined and understood, partly due to the creation of the model itself.
Every Tuesday morning is now focussed on the 5th and 6th Year Contested Peripheries Group. The sessions so far have allowed students to voice any questions on their projects and refine their ideas through converse with their tutors and workshop staff.
Having tutors on hand in the workshop has been very beneficial to the group and we hope to encourage other Ateliers to be involved in the workshop in a similar way. As projects are completed we will give a more in depth look at their models and how they are being used to inform their designs. 
Beginning Tuesday 28th January the workshop will be closed between 9.30 and 13.00 to all students apart from Contested Peripheries Atelier students. This will remain in effect every Tuesday for the rest of this Academic Year.
This is due to a change in teaching structure which,in the not too long term, will benefit all students. Our efforts will be focussed on delivering specific advice based on the whole groups needs whilst being exclusively available to answer questions as a group and to individuals.
These sessions will aim to focus on the theory of modelmaking and question your approaches based on what you are trying to achieve.
Necessary inductions or refreshers concerning machine operation will also be given.
The workshop will re-open as normal from 14.00 to all students.
Here are our amended general weekly opening times:
Monday: 09.30-13.00 (One hour Lunch Break) 14.00-16.30
Tuesday:14.00-16.30
Wednesday:Â 09.30-13.00 (One hour Lunch Break) 14.00-16.30
Thursday:Â 09.30-13.00 (One hour Lunch Break) 14.00-16.30
Friday:Â 09.30-13.00 (One hour Lunch Break) 14.00-16.30
Saturday/Sunday: Closed
We look forward to getting started!
Jim & Scott