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Eastside Masterplan – MADE’s response

Regular readers of DiG may remember Midlands Architechture and the Designed Environment (MADE) holding a Public Exhibition and Consultation for the Eastside Masterplan on 12th March. As a result of the event, MADE were able to compose the following response … Continue reading

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Eastside Masterplan – Consultation ends soon!

We may have lost the battle to save Island House, but we can try to take action to ensure Quintain, the developers responsible for demolishing the building, don’t profit from redeveloping the land with an office block. Further to MADE’s … Continue reading

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Eastside Masterplan Public Exhibition

What: Eastside Masterplan Public Exhibition Where: Millennium Point Foyer, Level 2 When: Monday 12th March 2012, 16:30 – 18:30 MADE (Midlands Architechture and the Designed Environment) are holding an event this coming Monday, to offer all interested parties an opportunity … Continue reading

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The Art and Architecture of Place

Join MADE on 3rd March for The Art and Architecture of Place, a series of special events from mid-afternoon onwards, featuring Sean Griffiths from FAT Architects and celebrating MADE’s 5th birthday, plus 175 years of the RIBA.  The afternoon starts … Continue reading

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Links for November 2nd

A diarising jazz musician discovers Digbeth – ‘Digbeth is very interesting. it has vintage shops, and theres this place called Custard Factory which holds an art gallery, some shops, a small broadcast radio… mini minor shops. Basically, quirky interesting things. … Continue reading

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Organic Eastside: regeneration by maniacs

So Bennie Gray’s been in the paper saying Birmingham needs a few more Custard Factories.  George Ferguson, who spoke at the Organic Eastside seminar held by MADE* and Digbeth Business Association in South Birmingham College last night, would heartilly agree.  … Continue reading

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Clash of the titans

This caught my eye at the launch of the Rescue Geography photography exhibition in MADE* on Friday evening.  The exhibition is open daily 12 noon to 2pm until 31st October.

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Rescue Geography photographic installation

Exhibition of Digbeth life on 27-31 October at MADE*, Fazeley Street with a preview this Friday 24 October 5-7pm.

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Rescue Geography

Many thanks to D’log for flagging up this BBC Online article about the brilliant Rescue Geography: Digbeth project, which gathers peoples’ stories of the area, pre and post the onset of regeneration activity. The website’s a mine of memories old … Continue reading

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Links for September 15th

MADE in Birmingham – D’log summarizes MADE’s forthcoming autumn events. “Organic Eastside: Creative approaches to regenerating Eastside” on 28th October 2008 is one I’ll definately be signing up for. Killriculum – Now I love a good, nasty horror film that … Continue reading

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