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MAKING ARTWORK
Deutsche Bank

Making Artwork filming

‘Making Artworkis Free Form’s Arts & Regeneration Programme in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Young people from Winsor Park Estate and Britannia Village (East Thames Housing Group) are exploring ideas for design and environmental improvements on their estates.

‘Deutsche Bank is excited to be supporting this collaboration between Free Form Arts and East Thames Housing.Making Artwork’ is a project which will inspire ownership amongst the young people involved, provide them with training and, so importantly, bring the arts to the doorsteps of the communities involved.’
Kate Cavelle, Director CSR UK, Deustche Bank.

Click here to download the Making Artwork 2008 Report

Morcom Playground, South Bedfordshire District Council
Part of our Downside Trailblazers regeneration project, this Lottery funded ‘natural play’ playground is a priority for local residents. The design will allow children to use their creativity and imagination to play.

Click these projects to view Free Forms' approach to creative play:
Shepherdess Walk and Fox Primary Phase 2 and Allmead Gardens, Beatrice Tate special needs School.

  Free Form is unique in providing the full range of arts and creative services for the built environment to place art at the heart of urban regeneration.

Hothouse is our new location for this creative cluster of art and design professionals working in the public realm.
 




HOTHOUSE is Free Form's award winning building and centre for the creative industries and the arts spectacularly located on London Fields park, beside the Liverpool St to Stansted rail route. Over 20,000 visitors and users came to Hothouse since it opened. For Hothouse images click here

CREATIVE WORK SPACES TO LET
Hothouse has unique work spaces for artists creative SME’s, architects and deisgners.This includes studios, work and exhibition space and rooftop terrace with beautiful views and sustainable energy generating photo-voltaics.
TO RENT OUR STUDIOS, DESK SPACES & ARCH email
michelle@freeform.org.uk

To find out about Hothouse Creative Business' visit Hothouse Portal click here

CONFERENCE & EVENT
HIRE The ground floor features meeting rooms and two exhibition and conference spaces, with panoramic views of the park.
FOR EVENT, MEETING & CONFERENCE HIRE emailmichelle@freeform.org.uk

HOTHOUSE AWARDS
Winner: BURA* (Best practice in regeneration awards) & overall winner - English Partnerships Award for 'outstandinpartnerships in regeneration'. Winner: first London Planning Awards -Mayor’s Award & 'best planned building contributing to London's future'.

Rt Hon. Paul Boateng MP opens Hothouse
For 2008 Hothouse articles visit:
Building Design On Line
BURA E-news April 08 Issue

Green Bottle Unit
Cityscape

Great Lines City Park Chatham's World Heritage
Free Form is delighted to work with HTA Landscaping to Masterplan this heritage park. Successful community engagement led to an Audience Development programme for the Chatham World Heritage Steering Group as part of their bid to gain World Heritage Status.

Click here for information on Chatham World Heritage

Shepherdess Walk Under 5’s Play Area, Shoreditch Trust:
Free Form has over 30 years experience in engaging children and residents to design high quality play spaces. Shepherdess Walk Under 5’s Play Area was designed by Free Form to encourage imaginative play. Free Form’s Cultural Enterprise trainees devised community consultation events that led to themed ideas about the park’s heritage as a place for grazing animals. The inspiring play space incorporated natural materials in a mini ‘city play farm’  

Birds and Bees Workshop. Photo: Grace Schwindt

Blooms, Bees and Birds
Over 160 children created stunning willow sculptures and artworks during Free Forms' creative outdoor summer play scheme on London Fields, supported by Hackney Council.

 
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NEWSFLASH:
Free Form’s three year partnership with Galeria Mora in Bucharest, Romania has led to a series of projects and a number of exchanges and training projects between English and Romanian artists. Free Form mentors have supported Romanian artists to secure European funding and provide ongoing support and advice to projects including I love Bucharest Click here for latest news.

HOTHOUSE international feature: A new creative powerhouse for London
"Since the 1980's Free Form Arts Trust has been pioneering its 'art at the heart' of urban regeneration projects from a myriad of sites speread across London in its unique mission of providing services for the arts and creative industries"

Click here to read the full article scroll through for english translation



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