An ambitious project involving over 400 students from London Metropolitan University has been awarded a prestigious award in recognition of its contribution to the 2012 Olympic Games.
Date: 11/04/2012
An ambitious project involving over 400 students from London Metropolitan University has been awarded a prestigious award in recognition of its contribution to the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Aldgate Project has seen hundreds of art, architecture and design students from London Met work to regenerate Aldgate and surrounding quarters of east London in time for the Olympics.
Students from The Cass work with local stakeholders as part of the scheme, which involves 20 separate creative projects.
Now, the project has been awarded a Bronze Medal for the ‘Award for Creative Cultural Project’ at the national Podium Awards, a one-off celebration recognising the vital role colleges and universities across the UK have played in delivering the London Games.
Anne Markey, Head of The Projects Office at The Cass, said: “The success of the Project can be measured by the enthusiasm of influential stakeholders to collaborate in it, including the boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Haringey, Corporation of London, East End Homes, Toynbee Hall, Providence Row Homeless Charity and Whitechapel Gallery.”
All 20 projects will be represented in a devoted show as part of the annual student exhibitions in June 2012.
The Aldgate Project will also be profiled by Universities UK as an exemplar of university engagement with community regeneration, during Universities Week.
A new website created by the University’s WOW Agency has just been launched to support and document the Project.
“The site introduces the Project and its aspirations”, said Anne. “It acts as an archive and point of information for the various events that have been organised as part of the project, such as a lecture series, guided design walks and a cross-faculty exhibition of work that was held in February.”