George Offers Words of Encouragement to Teesside University Students
MOBIE students from Teesside University’s MIMA School of Art & Design have been working on a multi-disciplinary challenge preparing home designs and a masterplan for our Riverside Sunderland University Design Challenge set with TRADA.
The competition is challenging teams of students to produce a masterplan for an area of the Riverside Sunderland development, which will include a ‘village’ community of around 100 desirable homes with green and open spaces on the riverside site.
MIMA School of Art & Design students completing the MOBIE BSc (Hons) Innovative Home Design and Construction, BA (Hons) Interior Design and BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design have been working together to create proposals for the Riverside Challenge.
MOBIE founder George, who was born in Sunderland, surprised the students by dropping in during an online tutorial.
He said:
“It was brilliant to learn how energised and engaged the students are with this project. Despite the difficulties of this last year, they have shown amazing resilience and commitment.
“Their interpretation of this really challenging brief, both in terms of the homes designed and the creation of this new urban living quarter does them and their tutors’ immense credit.
“I joined this session today to help 'gee them on' and offer some support, but they seem to have the challenge well under control. I can't wait to see their final designs and I wish them the very best for the competition.”
Helen McBride, second year BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design student, said:
“It was a lovely surprise to hear from George Clarke during our tutorial. He was really down to earth, chatting to us online and he offered really good advice.
“One thing I will take away will be his advice to go beyond the brief and not be scared to push boundaries.”
Rob Andoniou, who is among the first cohort of the BSc (Hons) Innovative Home Design and Construction, said:
“It was really helpful to hear from George while working on our assignments as we reach the final leg. His approach was really calming and he said to think big, while always keeping focus.
“One piece of advice he gave which has stuck with him is that the client knows what they don’t want, but they don’t always know what they do want.”
Richard Sober, Associate Professor in the University’s MIMA School of Art & Design, said:
“It was great to get George to come along to the session and offer his encouragement and fantastic that he was impressed by how well our students have coped over the last year and progressed their work.
“The students are on the last few weeks of working on the Sunderland Challenge before they submit it to the judging panel. It has been a fabulous project to be involved in, although a very demanding and ambitious brief. It has encouraged the students to produce some amazing creative concepts which we hope might be among the prize winners and included in a public exhibition later in the year.”
“Despite the difficulties of this last year, they have shown amazing resilience and commitment”
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