This August, the Brunel Museum plays host to this free show exhibiting the work of 2021 year’s graduating Accelerate students.

Accelerate is a pioneering design education and mentoring programme supporting young Londoners from under-represented backgrounds to pursue careers in city-making professions. The students’ work, which this year responded to a theme of Fragments and the City, through a series of drawing, modeling, live-build, landscape, casting and design projects, will be exhibited from 11am to 5pm on Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th of August.

Over the last decade, around 300 hundreds of students have taken part in the programme, with 70% going on to study architecture or other city-making subjects at university.

Each student cohort follows a programme of practical workshops to develop observation, drawing, design and model-making, building skills, contacts and portfolios while exploring the social purpose of architecture. The students also take part in a mentoring programme with city-making professionals and a design brief at its core.

Exhibition Venue

The Brunel Museum
Railway Avenue
SE16 4LF

Accelerate Supporters

Accelerate is made possible thanks to a coalition of supporters dedicated to making architecture and the wider built environment more inclusive and diverse. These can be found in full at the Accelerate homepage.

Core Partners

ft’Work Trust, The Bartlett, Southwark Council, Precis Advisory

Mentor Partners

Alison Brooks Architects, Frame projects, Jamie Fobert Architects, Stanton Williams, Pollard Thomas Edwards, AHMM, Civic Engineers, The Landscape Institute, Maccreanor Lavington, We Made That, Jestico + Whiles, Whittaker Parsons, Archer + Braun

Covid Safety

Please note, to keep things safe numbers in the museum's tunnel shaft will be limited and guests will be admitted on a one-in-one-out basis once capacity is reached. There will be plenty of beautiful garden space to enjoy whilst visitors are waiting to view the exhibition.