RIBA’s cutting edge exhibition FREESTYLE was designed by Architecture and Design Studio Space Popular and students from London Design Engineering UTC. Shumi Bose from RIBA’s architectural curator team and Kate Westbrook from RIBA's Learning team worked in close collaboration to ensure the exhibition celebrated the voices of young people and their ideas and visions for a built environment of the future.
RIBA recently shared the making of FREESTYLE with young people taking part in Beyond the Box Consultants’ People’s Pavilion project, a RIBA sponsored project which brings together young people aged 16 to 24 from across east London to design a pavilion and festival in the Olympic Park, Stratford. RIBA delivered a digital masterclass to a group of over 70 young people who were interested in the processes and collaborations involved in Cultural Production.
Young people learnt about the collaboration between curation and learning teams at RIBA when developing the FREESTYLE exhibition. Shumi, who was the lead curator, and Kate, who led on the learning programme, shared the processes involved in curation and designing learning programmes and underlined the importance of community voices in public facing exhibitions. Our Learning team shared some of the processes they use when designing Learning programmes and how RIBA’s Collections and expert curators inspire and enrich our programming.
We at RIBA are really excited to see how the young Cultural Producer participants of the People’s Pavilion project take some of the learning from RIBA's masterclass and use it to deliver a brilliant, engaging public facing festival and celebration of the Pavilion.
