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The school programme in 2007

Sunday 24 June
Time	Event/session
12.00pm	Registration opens
2.30pm	Summer school begins: welcome and opening announcements
2.45pm	Ice-breaker exercise
3.15pm	Briefing for urban wander
3.30pm	Urban wander Exploratory walks through designed environments
4.45pm	Depart wander location
5.15pm	Return to conference venue for refreshments
5.30pm	Facilitated workshop Expressing qualities of good places
6.15pm	Literacy hour 1 Rob Cowan on the language of urban design followed by group work
7.15pm	Pre-dinner break
7.45pm	Opening dinner
9.00pm	After dinner speaker and formal opening of the school
10.00pm	To bed or bar

Monday 25 June
Time	Event/session
8.50am	Delegates assemble
9.00am	Big project 1 briefing
9.15am	Depart for the three big project sites
11.15am	Return for refreshments
11.30am	SpeakerFrom analysis to vision
12.00pm	Hot tips and tricks Visual representation of design ideas
1.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm	Shop for skills Workshops on key approaches to analysis: Resource use Character analysis/Lynchian analysis Movement-based analysis Constraints analysis Economic analysis
2.45pm	Big project 1 analysis Facilitated group work analysing the sites
3.45pm	Tea and coffee break
4.00pm	Big project 1 Facilitated group work on production of design brief
4.45pm	Literacy hour 2 Visual literacy: presentation on visuals in urban design and the different ways of showing plans
5.45pm	Talkshop 1 Themed networking session
6.30pm	Pre-dinner break
7.15pm	Walkers depart for central Birmingham
7.30pm	Networking event Hosted by the Urban Land Institute
8.30pm	Eating and drinking At Brindleyplace, sponsored by Argent (using vouchers)

Tuesday 26 June
Time	Event/session
8.50am	Delegates assemble
9.00am	Keynote speaker The big picture in urban design
9.45am	Big project 2 Analysing the brief, thinking about options Tea and coffee on tap
12.00pm	Shop for skills Hot tips and tricks 2
1.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm	Lakeside gathering
2.30pm	Big project 2 Produce designs
4.00pm	Refreshment break
4.15pm	Literacy hour 3 The big words in urban design: sustainability, liveability, inclusiveness, community, mixed-use, neighbourhood, etc.
5.15pm	Structured critique of designs
6.00pm	Talkshop 2
6.45pm	Pre-dinner break
7.15pm	Coaches depart for Fort Dunlop
7.45pm	Presentation Fort Dunlop - ideas for the renewal of post industrial heritage
8.30pm	Dinner At Fort Dunlop hosted by Urban Splash
10.00pm	Coaches depart

Wednesday 27 June
Time	Event/session
8.50am	Delegates assemble
9.00am	Presentation How to deliver good design
10.00am	Shop for skills Delivery skills workshops: finance, land issues, quality control, community and stakeholder involvement, community ownership, project management
11.00am	Refreshments
11.15am	Panel presentation How to change your organisation
12.15pm	Reflection and action planning How to promote good design in your own work
1.00pm	Lunch
2.45pm	The dragon's den
3.00pm	Summer school ends

Group work 1