Tessa Geuze is a Dutch design anthropologist and educator currently based in Rotterdam. In her work she interrogates how we relate to the world surrounding us, challenging conventional ideas and beliefs by creating playful objects as translations of her research. Tessa is associate and tutor at STORE Schools & Projects. Stine Keinicke runs her product design studio in South London and has designed for clients like Ikea and Hay. Her work is often seeking new ways to utilize materials or manufacturing techniques to create a functional design with a tactile interaction. Stine is associate and tutor at STORE Schools & Projects and Co-Director of the STORE STORE.

STORE STORE runs a series of free weekly after-school clubs in Kings Cross open to local state school pupils. The after-school club offers a unique chance for young people to see their ideas go from imagination to reality, from initial concept through to design, prototype, manufacture and retail. These workshops are particularly useful for students considering applying to university in either architecture, design, art or textiles.

Through our award-winning Associate Schools model we partner with a small group of schools to create relevant and engaging learning experiences, empowering them to value and embed the arts and creativity across the national curriculum.

As part of the Associate Schools programme, we collaborated with STORE STORE, an innovative London-based community project to offer two of our Associate Schools the opportunity to take part in After School Club workshops. Students from New Regent’s College (a pupil referral unit in Hackney) and Sydney Russell School (a large secondary school in Dagenham) designed crayons based on the architecture of the Barbican Centre, which are now on sale in the Barbican Shop as part of London Craft Week.