The Stephen Lawrence Trust, in partnership with RIBA, will be launching a mentoring scheme for aspiring BME architecture students aged 16-19. The mentoring programme will run from September 2008 to March 2009 and will be supported by a number of initiatives. These will include a visit to Tate Britain for the Portfolio Advice Day, a residential at CAT in Wales, a Culturally Enriched Sensory Language seminar, a design brief (including sketching and model-making masterclasses) with Catherine Greig of make:good, mentoring training and Re-Visioning Black Urbanism. A total of 15 mentees will be recruited, predominantly from the Design Matters summer course this July. The mentors will be recruited from the Trust’s Bursary Scheme, ASPAA and Archaos. Mentees are entitled to six meetings between September 2008 and March 2009. As part of the programme, all potential mentors will be given half a day's training to help manage this short-term relationship and also furnish them with key communication skills and techniques they can take back into their own practices.  

Partners: RIBA, University of the Arts, Tim Stephens & Paul Goodwin/Tate Britain, Catherine Greig/make:good
Date: September 2008 to March 2009
Venue: Stephen Lawrence Centre, Tate Britain
Times: N/A
RSVP - mentors: Nick Taylor, Caroline Khoo, Simone de-Gale, Susan Abaniwo, Ummar Rashid