Education

Legacy Now Lecture Series

We have just finished a second successful year of our annual lecture series with autumn 2009 seeing four lectures held across London. Aimed at a pan-London audience, these lectures engaged students, academics and members of the public interested in the planning and delivery of the Olympic legacy.

The 2009 autumn lectures were organised around four specifically themed panel discussions taking place in London’s foremost inter-disciplinary centers for urban research: The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics, the Urban Lab at University College London, the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the City Centre at Queen Mary.

For more information see the Lecture series page.

Long term - To develop a long term relationship with the school and the wider community.

If you are a school in the host boroughs and require further information about the Olympic Legacy School Programme, please contact Samantha Sifah, Community Engagement Manager. Alternatively, you can reach her on 020 3288 1804.

   
Previous schools work

Previously, we have worked with Fundamental, an architecture centre based in East London, to facilitate a schools programme to encourage participation from young people welcoming their thoughts and ideas for the future of the Olympic Park. Fundamental worked with the 2012 unit within the five host boroughs to select the two schools that participated from each borough.

The youngsters involved in the programme learned about how their area would be transformed after the 2012 Games and were asked to share their ideas on what they wanted to see created. Children engaged in an intensive task of masterplanning new cities and related their own daily routines to the challenge of planning a neighborhood.

You can view the report from this previous school engagement programme, as well as a case study, via the following links:

• Legacy Now School Consultation Report (PDF)
• Case Study (PDF)

   
Legacy Now Youth Panel 

The Legacy Now Youth Panel (LNYP) is a dedicated group of young people from the five Olympic host boroughs who have given up their time over the past 18 months to help inform the Olympic Legacy Masterplan. The young people involved have submitted a formal response to the planning documents, created a Soundscape to accompany a CGI flythrough of the proposed future developments and written a Manifesto to share their vision for the communities and built environment following the 2012 Olympic Games.

The culmination of all their hard work was celebrated in July 2009 when the Panel hosted a free event giving a glimpse of East London’s future, with an exciting mix of video and sound on a 3D city model created by the Light Surgeons. The event, as part of the CREATE09 festival, was a celebration and showcase of all the work that many young people have done over the last year to help shape the legacy plans for the Olympic Park after 2012.

You can find further details about this event in our events calendar (please note: this is a past event and is listed for reference purposes only). You can also read the press release from the event in our News section.

We are currently recruiting for the Legacy Now Youth Panel 2010. You may be eligible if you are:

• 13-19 years of age
• live in one of the host boroughs
• prepared to give up one day a month

    
Please contact SamanthaSifah@legacycompany.co.uk