The 2025 Residency for Ideas: Creating Intimacy in Public Spaces
Source: WildWorks Glasgow. WildWorks Glasgow is digging into its Residency for Ideas, the annual grant and professional mentoring program for students at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, created in the memory of Emma. Collaboration abounds as this space-creating experiment into new approaches to architectural practice evolves. The WildWorks project was born after the selection committee for Residency for Ideas approached the applicants of two separate proposals with the prospect of combining their efforts. Their new proposal captured the 2025 prize. Subsequently, the four students behind the collaboration-- Jim Cowie, Robin Simpson, Finlay Wellings, and Lily Whitehouse --joined WildWorks Glasgow, which is dedicating its efforts this summer to testing several ideas. Furthermore, in May, WildWorks Glasgow began collaborating with Arches DIY to start a conversation about how to make an existing urban space better serve the surrounding community, which since then has been ...