Author: Michaela Freeman

A full day programme for Y9 students at Ebbsfleet Academy – Design a City in a Day. Workshops included zine making with Lu Williams, 3D building design with Sahra Hersi, writing poetry for the city led by Dzifa Benson, designing a biodiverse map of Ebbsfleet with Lily Hunter Green and positive sign making with Tom… Continue reading Build a City in a Day – Ebbsfleet Academy

Ebbsfleet Design Group was at Ebbsfleet Fusion Festival on 8 July designing and making houses for non humans under the direction from Richard Clegg. The designs included bird houses, a bat house and a house-maze with solar powered camera for hedgehogs. Members of the group also took turn to run a design activity for younger visitors… Continue reading Fusion Festival – Designing Houses for Non Humans

During the last 12 months, Harry Adams, a recent graduate from North Kent College, filmed the transformations of the ever changing Ebbsfleet landscape using his drone camera and on the ground shots as well as interviews with local residents. Harry has been mentored by filmmaker Andy Delaney thought the year and received training from sound… Continue reading Harry Adams film commission

This Must Be the Place has been given a space at Ebbsfleet International by HS1 to use for exhibitions. The first display includes Ebbsfleet Manifesto flags, cyanotypes and photographs made by Ebbsfleet Academy and North Kent College students in 2022.

Artist and writer Dzifa Benson worked with groups of local young people on writing works of poetry for our Poetry Pool – a collection of writings for local developers to apply to the surfaces of the new garden city in Ebbsfleet. This included pupils at Ebbsfleet Academy, North Kent College, and the Grand in Gravesend.… Continue reading The Poetry Pool for Ebbsfleet with Dzifa Benson

In February we were in Springhead for This Must Be the Place pop up workshop as part of Youth Bus Taster weekend organised by Ebbsfleet Salvation Army. Artist Katrin Albrecht asked local young people and families to created a flag for a garden city themed bunting for the Youth Bus. We talked about living in… Continue reading Youth Bus Pop Up Bunting