MSA Live 21 is the latest in the MSA’s annual programme of collaborative student-led live projects.

Previously titled MSA Events this annual programme is now called MSA Live. The new name reflects the nature of projects which unify BA1&2 MArch1 and (for the first time) also MLA1 cohorts in mixed year teams.

MArch students work with collaborators locally and globally to create impact beyond architectural education. MSA Live 21 comprises 42 projects and 600 students all working together on an exhilarating range of online activities with 50 external partners.

MSA Live affords benefits to all participants: project partners can set an agenda for consideration; students engage in peer-to-peer learning while testing modes of architectural practice in collaborative live projects; some projects are research-led with connections to MSA staff projects and all create social impact.

External partners include charities social enterprises community groups and other organisations who work with MArch students to develop a brief and comprehensively plan activities. BA and MLA cohorts bring these ideas to life during an intensive two weeks at the end of the academic year.

View the projects in more detail at live.msa.ac.uk/2021 or download the final reports.

MSA Live 21 Projects

Power Trip

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Mixed Space

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Cirque Du Arc

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Forgotten Citizens

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Modularch

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Heart And Soil

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Play Box

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Make Build

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Artisan Studio

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How Women Build?

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Blue Line

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Smart Community

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MSA Connect

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Re-Shaping Marple

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Play By The Beech

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Woah + GMHAN

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Keen Fingers

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Archikids

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House Of Negotiation

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Have We Killed The Planet?

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Inspire Bradford

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Parktopia

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Space Invaders

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Infra Game

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In The Oceans Of Diversity

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Ownhaus

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Connected Community

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Re-Use

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Bit By Bit

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Our Proud Past

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Plot Twist

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Rochdale Revival

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Ecotswolds

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Live Wires

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Skyscrapers The Limit

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Colour The City

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Pay Inn Display

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Mapping Colour

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Paving The Way

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Archiving Albert

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Sketchy Business

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Can We Fix It?

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MSA Live 21 Project Partners

  • Anthropocene Architecture School
  • Archives+
  • Bennetts Associates
  • BPIC Network
  • Bradford Civic Society
  • Building Bridges Pendle
  • Community Led Action and Savings Support
  • Cornerstone
  • Ecospheric
  • Friends of Beech Road Park
  • Greater Manchester Homeless Action Network (GMHAN)
  • Greater Manchester Savers
  • Grizedale Arts
  • GT3 Architects
  • How Women Build Research Project (Helen Aston & Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr)
  • iArchitect Limited
  • IN-SITU
  • Invisible (Manchester)
  • Joe Jessop
  • Landscape Environment Advancement Foundation
  • Lendlease
  • Lifeshare
  • Manchester City Council Planning Department
  • Manchester City Council Building Control Department
  • Manchester Health Academy
  • Manchester Society of Architects
  • Manchester Urban Diggers CIC
  • MSA (Emily Crompton)
  • MSA (Kevin Singh, Dr Vicky Jolley, Rob Hyde)
  • MSA (Laura Sanderson)
  • National Coal Mining Museum
  • Our Town Hall Project
  • ownHaus
  • Pendle Borough Council
  • Project 3 Architects
  • Purcell Architects
  • Rural Solutions
  • St John the Baptist Church - Rochdale
  • The Architecture School for Children
  • The Circus House C.I.C.
  • The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Cooling Down' AHRC Research Network (Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr & Dr Richard Brook)
  • The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Culture Amenity and Heritage. UKRI Research Project (Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr & Dr Richard Brook)
  • The Make Bank
  • The Tetley
  • The WorkHouse Project
  • This is Change
  • Urban Splash
  • Walk Ride Chorlton
  • Whitworth Art Gallery
  • Without A Home (MSSA)