10 - 12 - 2024
As Part of our Careers in the Built Environment programme, in collaboration with the RIBA National Schools Programme, Senior Architect Frances Abrahamsen has led a series of ‘Introduction to Architecture’ workshops at schools across London and Kent.
Our programme was launched to open career opportunities to young people, particularly to those local to our studio in Greenwich, and break down entry barriers into the built environment profession.
The workshops were delivered to a range of age groups, exploring the importance of the built environment on livelihoods and communities and how designs are shaped and developed. Each workshop was uniquely tailored to cater to each school’s individual curriculum, including a workshop developed specifically for a local SEN school, demonstrating to students how architecture is integrated into so many aspects of our lives and environment, as well as enabling students to apply their classroom learning to the development of a design proposal.
A teacher from one of the schools said, “the feedback from the students was overwhelmingly positive… our head of Year 11 said that it was the best careers-type presentation he had ever seen!”
Frances, who has a particular interest in expanding access and support to the profession, especially for neurodiverse individuals says, “With the aim of inspiring and encouraging younger students to appreciate, enjoy and understand the spaces they inhabit, it has been so rewarding to see students engage in all the workshops we have delivered. They have given students an opportunity to learn and consider a career in architecture and use creativity in a capacity they have never experienced at school.”
We look forward to nurturing our established relationships with schools and forging new ones as we continue to nurture and inspire the next generation of built environment professionals.
