We are pleased to announce the winning teams of our collaborative Scarce Times: Alternative futures competition. The selected groups are:
COMMUNITY COLLABOR-8 (Naznin Chowdhury, Carlos Manns and Nick Wolff)
BOW-NANZA (Dominic McKenzie and Peter Morris, Signs of Life [Bromley-by-Bow Centre], Spacehive and 815 Agency)
00:// ALMA-NAC (Joni Stenier, Olivia Tusinski, Chris Bryant with Diana Matoso)
A BOOM COLLABORATION (Mike Whitehurst, James Warne, Blanche Cameron, Gary Grant, Karen Ihlau, Evan Lizon and Mat Proctor)
The Architecture Foundation and Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Enviroment (SCIBE) at the University of Westminster sought to collaborate with four groups to work on a project with the community in Bromley-by-Bow, London.
Rather than run a traditional selection competition we held two events at which teams presented themselves and their approach to the briefing document. Twenty-four teams presented at Event 1 (2 July 2012) and 14 of them continued on to Event 2 (23 July 2012).
From the presenting teams, the audience and the Jury – consisting of Nicola Bacon (Young Foundation/Social Life), Sarah Ichioka (Architecture Foundation), Moira Lascelles (Architecture Foundation), Flora Bowden (SEED Foundation), Deljana Iossifova (University of Westminster) and Jeremy Till (University of Westminster, Chair) – selected four groups with which the SCIBE team will collaborate over the next months to implement their projects.
Read more about Scare Times: Alternative Futures here.
In addition, the jury decided to invite Alison Killing and Lutfa Begum + Sonia and Rania Khan to collaborate with one of the selected teams.
Each team will be awarded £4,000 to begin implementing their respective projects over the following months.