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REIMAGINING THE CAMDEN HIGHLINE
A transformational placemaking and education programme facilitating Camden’s young people to reimagine a disused railway line into a public park.
The Camden Highline (CHL) is a proposed public park in the sky to transform the disused railway between Camden Town and Kings Cross in London. The central aim of this education programme was to enable young people in Camden to develop their creative and technical knowledge and skills. Utilising exploratory activities relating to the design process, to provide them with future opportunities to play a part in the borough’s creative, digital and scientific economy.
The London Borough of Camden’s STEAM initiative (that’s Science Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) is dedicated to reaching every young person in the borough and inspiring them with exciting employer encounters. 90 students (aged 9-14 years) from Camden STEAM Hub schools took part in a series of iterative co-design workshops to discover, experiment and evolve their own design ideas for elements or activities for the CHL.
Students created their own maps of the Highline, travelled the route and measured key features in relation to their own bodies to interrogate the site, scale and form. The young people visited the local architectural studios of Sheppard Robson architects and Haworth Tompkins architects and later built their own model bridges and tested their strength! Through narrative mapping and model making, students developed their proposals for interventions along the CHL, working with over 50 architect and student volunteers.
This project aligned with STEAM+ learning curriculum and was delivered over 2 academic years. Some of the student’s work was exhibited in the Camden Image Gallery, bringing together students and their vision for the future Highline.