The Cityscapers Studio is a British Council project that seeks to foster generative links between young creative makers: architects, artists, designers and urbanists in the countries of South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Directed by Richard Goodwin through his Porosity Studio initiative, the Cityscapers Studio is a three year British Council funded and administrated programme to identify, select and bring together students from: Japan, South Korea, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. The project is an intense cross-disciplinary engagement with a city, a site and a question with regard to the considered contribution of the visual disciplines in the contemporary city.

In April 2008 Cityscapers was held in Edinburgh where the studio sought to address the prevailing question of the Glasgow-Edinburgh 'divide', the M8 corridor and the Leith Waterfront Development.

The studio was collaboration between the British Council, the Porosity Studio, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and Edinburgh University Department of Architecture. It was housed in the studios, multimedia labs, workshops, gallery and lecture halls of the Department of Architecture. Using the resources of the University, the city and the greater site, students were invited to engage with the image of Scotland's central belt through studio and site-specific making, walking tours, site visits, lectures, seminars and public presentations of ongoing practice. Scottish students contributing to the project came from Edinburgh University, Edinburgh College of Art, Napier University, Glasgow School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art, Dundee.

At the end of the two-week programme an exhibition of the Cityscapers work was installed in the Matthew Gallery. Projects ranged from architectural models and masterplans to interactive sound and image installations. The work was documented and will form part of a publication series to be produced through British Council Australia.

For more information on this project and future Cityscapers in Belfast and London please refer to:
www.britishcouncil.org/creativecities

Contributors:
The British Council
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Edinburgh University Department of Architecture