'BrookesBUDS (Brazil Urban Design Study) is an extra-curricular activity for students from the Schools of the Built Environment and Architecture from Oxford Brookes University. It focuses on fostering cross-cultural, real-life experiences of urban design for students from Brookes and from partner universities in Brazil' (extract from the BUDS 2019 website). The BrookesBUDS project is an ongoing project which takes place every two years.
For much more information, take a look at the BUDS website or OBBUDS on Instagram. And now for the photos...
Update: as a result of a request from Lowri Nicholson (BA UDPD), RTPI South East gave a donation towards the funding for the trip and asked in return for an article for their magazine. And here is the link to the article...it's on page 12...
At the beginning of this month we staged
our week-long BUDS (Brazil Urban Design Study) exhibition in the inspirational new
John Henry Brookes building.
We wanted the display to tell our story by showing
off our unique experiences through multimedia. The photo’s captured our
humbling visits to the favelas but also illustrate the hard work during the
workshops. The video footage included interviews, which displayed how we gaged
the real feelings of the communities we worked with, but they also gave insight
to the team’s downtime when we experienced Brazilian culture in a different way
- some of that is too funny for words! – but you can watch on our VLOG below ;-)
The opening evening was buzzing with
excitement. To soak up the Brazilian theme, some of the team worked hard to
give visitors a real flavour of our trip by making typical brazilian food - 'Brigadeiros' and 'Pao de Queijo' (cheese balls) - and drinks - Guarana and homemade lemonade.
Overall, the
exhibition was a big success with dozens of people coming to celebrate with us
throughout the week! If you’re interested to know more then exhibition
materials and our contact details can be found HERE.
(text by Sean Kelly on behalf of the BUDS 2015 team; photos by BUDS2015)
