Sheffield Community Media

Alongside redesigning the existing building to facilitate co-working and improve the comfort of the space, the project embarked on a search for a new home for Sheffield Live!, seeking potential properties within Sheffield’s City Centre that could act as a much needed media hub. In order to bridge the gap between the short and long term facets of the project, the Live Project Team also designed and built a pop-up structure an immediate remedy to address the loss of street presence. This will act as a way to reach more members of the community, by bringing the mobile radio station to them, as well as allowing Sheffield Live to host more street and festival events. The scheme aimed to interrogate the notion of community media infrastructure, exploring how this can be provided to the city of Sheffield through architectural interventions in the form of a community media hub and the portable structure. The conceptual design promotes transparency and community ownership, identifying key spaces and qualities that can be applied to an array of properties in Sheffield.

Within the six-weeks, the Live Project group hosted two events to engage with key stakeholders who are associated with and host radio and TV shows through Sheffield Live!, these included representatives from media organisations such as SADACCA, African Voices Platform, South Yorkshire Filmmakers Network, and more. Discussions from these focus groups were then factored into the design, to ensure Sheffield Live’s community led approach was maintained.

Credits

Student Team: 

Jade Tickle, Cameron Clark, Will Marchant, Maura McGrath, Zarin Tasneem Mir, Marcus, Harding, Ten Liang Ho, Lucia Mugena, Sofia Sergiou, Sicheng Chen, Yili Chen, Ruyan Zhang

Mentor:

Emre Akbil