Rich Mix Workspace Programme Invitation to Apply for Fashion Businesses
20-03-2007
Rich Mix Learning and Creative Policies
Rich Mix’s Learning Policy
Rich Mix is a dynamic new centre for creative enterprise in the heart of
The learning activities in the building are focused on the creative and cultural industries – music, design, fashion, the spoken word, digital design and film. Rich Mix offers a space for learning, creating and socialising. Being a work, leisure and learning space, Rich Mix offers the learner a variety of ‘entry points’ to learning. This provides a range of facilities and platforms to make and show work. We facilitate conversations and work collaboratively in partnership with organisations.
1. Core Principles
We aim to:
- Work with and support the education sector by, for example, delivering simulated work-based learning to support the delivery of the Specialised Diplomas, BTEC, LOCN, National Curriculum and similar qualifications.
- Create a comfortable and safe environment for people to enjoy.
- Provide opportunities for people to learn by doing
- Increase participants’ understanding of and access to the creative and cultural sector and networks.
- Ensure that the learning activities are appropriate to the learner and that we provide support and pathways for further personal and professional achievement.
- Develop learning opportunities to help learners to achieve economic well-being.
- Advocate and nurture new and emerging talent by providing a platform for showcasing.
2. Practice
2.1 Process
Rich Mix creates and sustains relationships with partner organisations which enable them to deliver appropriate learning activities in the building.
Rich Mix initiates and develops learning projects for all ages by consulting with teachers and practitioners to develop programmes, projects and events that are relevant to learners. A first aim is to have a teachers’ group to act as a sounding board for Rich Mix projects and activities.
Rich Mix ensures that learning experience is of maximum benefit to the learner’s personal and professional development, ensuring where possible that work undertaken in the building is accredited and/or a clear framework for progression e.g. Specialised 14 – 19 Diploma, BTEC.
Rich Mix facilitates direct links between learners and creative industry professionals either as teachers, speakers, mentors, co-learners or facilitators.
Rich Mix uses the experience of our creative industry tenants, networks and facilities to deliver learning packages or events that complement the curriculum and develop core skills benefiting the learner.
Rich Mix ensures a mix of people engage in learning activities – those that don’t consider themselves learners or ‘creative’ – by working with partners, and employing thoughtful marketing.
Rich Mix will facilitate showcasing of work on a range of platforms. In the first instance this could be work made outside the building.
Rich Mix will create ‘learn by doing’ experiences giving the learner a simulated work experience – following a production process from A to Z – for example planning and making short film and screening it at the cinema.
2.2 Criteria
In order to ensure a fit with Rich Mix’s Core Principles, we will assess Learning proposals and projects against the following criteria:
- Level of participation – the level of access different groups and individuals will have to the learning process.
- Culture and interaction – the opportunities for interaction between people from different cultural backgrounds.
- Learning opportunities – opportunities for active learning, personal and/or professional development.
- Supplementing the school curriculum – filling the gap.
- Innovation – the level of innovative thought and originality in the proposed ideas.
- Regeneration potential – the potential to contribute to the economic development of specific communities and/or creative industry sectors.
- The priority weighting of each criterion will vary according to Rich Mix’s current priorities.
3. Structure
Rich Mix is resourced to realise this vision with the following:
· A learning space – a ‘base’ and ‘entry’ and ‘exit’ point for the learner. It is equipped with ICT, furniture and lockers for personal belongings. This space will be used to ‘set up’ and ‘debrief’ activity that may have taken place in multiple areas within the building
· Cinemas, Live and rehearsal space, creative workspaces, music hub, food & social spaces
· The Rich Mix Learning Department working with other departments and tenants to deliver the learning.
Rich Mix’s Creative & Programming Policy
Rich Mix is a dynamic new centre for creative enterprise in the heart of
Our Creative programme is based on a broad definition of culture looking at all aspects of audio, visual and performative creativity. Our building offers opportunities for a wide range of programming across a range of platforms. However, more than just a conventional museum or venue, Rich Mix is process focused and is consciously active at all stages of the creative cycle – information, networks, learning, training, product development, testing, presentation and distribution.
1. Core Principles
- Our programme is led by the practice of designers, crafts people, musicians, writers, media producers and performers as well as visual artists.
- Our programme is informed by audience interests, creating work that is targeted at specific audience, demographic and interest groups.
- Our work aims to represent the widest range of cultural traditions that have contributed to the culture of
Britain and, in particular,London
- Our work will be developed to ensure that all opportunities to make creativity accessible and transparent are exploited.
- Opportunities for learning that can be applied in all walks of life are generated in all aspects of the programme.
2. Practice
2.1 Process
- Rich Mix initiates and develops creative projects by first examining the interests of and targeting specific audience groups and then commissioning with cultural practitioners to implement processes that engage communities in the creative process.
- Programmes may include pre-existing artwork and performances that service a project’s overall objectives and conceptual aims.
- Rich Mix will operate as a producer in its own right developing concepts and themes for its project work.
- Audiences will be involved in the creative process through learning programmes, active participation in the creative process and the public exhibition of the making of work.
· Rich Mix will develop, build and maintain partnerships that will connect the work, creatives, participants and audiences to the wider cultural industries and other industry sectors.
2.2 Criteria
In order to ensure a fit with Rich Mix’s Core Principles, we will assess creative work against the following criteria:
· Level of participation – the level of access communities and audiences will have to the creative process.
· Culture bridging – the opportunities for interaction between communities from different cultural backgrounds.
· Learning opportunities – opportunities for active learning, personal and/or professional development.
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· Innovation – the level of innovative thought and originality in the proposed ideas.
· Regeneration potential – the potential to contribute to the economic development of specific communities and/or creative industry sectors.
· International networks/profile – the opportunities for international profiling, networking and mentoring for Rich Mix’s constituencies.
The priority weighting of each criteria will vary according to Rich Mix’s current priorities.
3. Structure
Rich Mix is resourced to realise this vision with the following:
· Multiple artform platforms including cinemas, workshops, creative workspaces, food & social spaces and an environment that uses interactive digital technologies to facilitate collective participation in the creative processes underlying the development of programme content. These facilities will allow us to explore themes across a range of artforms exploiting all the available opportunities for engaging with a range of audiences.
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· The Rich Mix staff team which includes the programmers, producers, development, marketing and learning specialists.
Rich Mix Workspace programme criteria download pdf
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