Come and be part of the conversation about what could happen to the cooling towers which make up one of the last remaining coal-fired power stations (still active) in the UK! Join Architectural Designer William Harvey and artist Ryan Boultbee, two creatives obsessed with the built environment, to discuss the uncertain future of Ratcliffe-on-Soar (R-o-S) power station.

What is going on? It’s 2030, A plume of dust and debris clouds the Nottingham skyline as Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station’s last cooling tower crumples like an over-dipped biscuit.... FLASHBACK to 2022, it’s our workshop: you are invited to creatively challenge the proposals for the future of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station - before it’s too late. We are inviting you to become an urban designer, proposing a potential new use for the site by visualising your idea, you will hold in your hands the potential to save the cooling towers from future demolition. Join us for this workshop to re-imagine one of Ratcliffe-on-soar 118m cooling towers, potentially reshaping the Nottingham’s Skyline.

Why should you care? Power Stations are one of the archetypal causes of climate change, yet they are a structure that also evidences a unique era of our coal consuming civilisation – but, sites in Nottingham, like Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, are at risk of being erased from our landscapes, memories and thus our history. What will future generations remember about the most pollutive generation in history? How will they connect with the titans of pollution and their cultural consequences?

Please bring yourself and your creativity to this workshop delivered for 15-25 year olds.