Welling School Archive is a arts display unit fully designed and built by pupils with specialist assistance from Co-DB.
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Welling School is a specialist art college and secondary school in the London Borough of Bexley. As a specialist art school they produce a wide range of publications including æ - Arts and Education Newspaper and the catalog for the annual alTURNERtive Prize.
Co-DB was approached to collaborate with Welling School to create a display trolley for their reception area that would showcase the diverse collection of ephemera created by students and staff. |
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15 key stage 3 students were selected from 300 after doing a project, specially devised by Co-DB, that was delivered during lessons by the Art Department. The students were given a brief and asked to design an innovative displays for a collection from the imaginary "The National Museum For Collections of Stuff". Collections included inflatables, stuffed birds and balls.
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For the selected students Co-DB then ran 2 day long workshops within the school.
Day1: Design Co-DB took the students through the design process from a site visit to talking to the client and creating initial design presentation sheets. Over the next two weeks the final design was developed by Co-DB from the designs created by the students in the first workshop and feed back from staff and students. |
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Day 2: Build
This included understanding the process Co-DB went through to get to the final design, project managing the build to make sure it would be finished on time, construction and ended with a launch party for the finished trolley in the reception. |
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