Crewe Town Council recently hosted approximately eighty architecture students from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) on a visit to Crewe, including its heritage sites, with the town being the focus of their project work and studies.
Students in their third year of undergraduate and first and second year candidates of the postgraduate Masters course met at the Heritage Centre and received an introduction to Crewe and some opportunities on offer. They were given guided tours of the Heritage Centre, town centre, Railway Cottages and Christchurch. They will also be returning independently over the coming months to further their exploration of the town.
Crewe has been chosen as a focus for their School of Architecture coursework and the resultant findings and project proposal theses generated from these studies will form exhibitions in Crewe in the summer.
We would like to thank the MMU teaching and academic team as well as the Crewe representatives who took their time to host the student visit.
A spokesperson for Crewe Town Council said:
“It was so interesting to welcome MMU’s School of Architecture to Crewe and the students were very engaged during their visit, making sure to ask plenty of relevant and thought provoking questions of the presenters and hosts.”
“We are looking forward to welcoming the students back to exhibit their findings and ideas, which we are sure will be hugely interesting and stimulating.”
“We are working collaboratively with the MMU School of Architecture to promote an ongoing partnership that will benefit the students and provide growing insight and opportunity for Crewe. We are also looking to develop this style of collaboration further by engaging with other universities across any fields of study that will benefit the town.”
