Creative Solutions - Buiding Schools for the Future

Alsopp Architects/Bovis/Birmingham City Council

Jacqui has been working with pupils at Holte, Lozells and Mayfield school to create ten ground based public artworks in perspex and metal. Jacqui has also been selected as one of only ten artists who will form a 'Community of Practice' to advise and implement cultural activity in Birmingham's ongoing BSF programme.

Learning Spaces Living Places - Birmingham City Council

Phase 1, underway since March 2005, has meant working with pupils and teachers to investigate the potential for creative learning environments and social spaces and making recommendations to the developers for Building Schools for the Future. Jacqui Rodger has also represented the project through workshops for Architecture week in the Mailbox, Birmingham, and at the Bidders Fair. The second phase of the project is to include commissions.

A Creative Welcome – Solihull MBC, Phase 1

Creative Solutions worked with four schools and eight artists to deliver a package of workshop led creative consultation projects with pupils, parents and teachers for the Building Schools for the Future programme. The project culminated in the creation of a DVD Package that includes research findings, documentation of the project, and the artists proposals for public art commissions for the new schools. As an indication of the success of the project, Solihull MBC created a new clause in the developers contract to ensure that they work with Creative Solutions to develop the public art content of the new schools. An initial presentation to the developers was highly successful, and we expect a number of the public art commissions to be developed in Phase 2 over the next three years.