In 2005, the society ran a design workshop with students from Nottingham University to come up with alternative ideas to demolition and produced some genuinely practical and workable architectural solutions.

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"When you expand to different countries, you have to first do a menu design workshop, to help make sure you have all the components and produce in place, " explains Brown.

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In the workshop, discussions of design extended to re-thinking city infrastructure.

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As for Dyson, he still spends most of his days holed up in his workshop tinkering away on his next design.

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We did a workshop for area teens and let them custom design various materials like acrylic and MDF.

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These days, he and his team of four design and make bespoke handcrafted shoes from his workshop in the elegant Strand Arcade, one of Sydney's historic shopping arcades in the Central Business District.

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The winning students also participated in a workshop at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit to learn about automotive design and how to take their dashboard to the next level.

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The twelve sessions of the workshop were intended to help equip participants with basic knowledge and skills to design and facilitate a community-based inventorying process tailored to the current circumstances of Timor-Leste.

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Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a studio founded in 2004 was the first to set the stage for design as art.

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