Made in Glasgow Project – Shawlands Academy

School: Shawlands Academy

Type of Activity: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Name of Employer: Landsec and Buchanan Galleries

Case Study:

Made in Glasgow is a cross-school competition held at Buchanan Galleries.

Local students from two schools went head-to-head in a ‘Dragons Den’ style pitch challenge to design a brand new, exciting community space for the people of Glasgow. It focuses on students ‘reimagining their local retail space’, which challenged students to develop and present their ideas and vision for retail in the future. The event was held in the management suites at the centre.

This enterprise programme contributes to the Scottish Government’s Career Information, Advice and Guidance Strategy. Students worked to a brief delivered on the day – The students were set a challenge of reimagining a vacant space to best serve their community in Glasgow. Attending workshops on creative placemaking, community and customer insights, and environmental sustainability hosted by professionals at Buchanan Galleries and Landsec.

The students learned all they need to know about taking an idea from its first draft to its design, pitch, and judging. The winning team received a trophy for their school.

Objectives:

• To redesign a community space within Buchanan Galleries – 15 young people involved split into 2 Groups 
• Design a Presentation within 6 weeks using various factors  
• To encourage the pupils to research, network, and ask questions to staff and pupils within S3 

Results/Outcomes:

• The young people designed 2 different presentations, a Coffee Shop and Softplay to a panel of 5 judges.
• Bambrew were the winners on the day from Shawlands Academy and will now attend Regional Finals  
• The pupils enjoyed the event and give them the confidence in public speaking in front of an audience  
• Through feedback the young people noted the new skills they had learned: Creativity, Problem Solving, Team Working and Communication 
• Pupil Voice involvement of possible redevelopment within the centre  

Testimonials:

“Great day and can’t wait to see what areas of improvement that we can build on for the Regional Finals”

“Bringing areas out with my comfort zone that I never would have done before this event. “