The Junction Young Ambassadors Scheme

One interaction project which I thought was similar to ours in a sense was the local community Junction Young Ambassadors scheme.

This is a project where the local community of Cambridge and young 'ambassadors' help The Junction in important decisions and plans towards making it a more youth friendly environment.

From my research I have collated that they have been running since March 2009 and some projects before included working with Architecture graduates to design a new front Foyer for the Junction building and running a ‘Youth Summit’ which invited teenagers to the Junction to participate ideas to the ‘Summer Intensive programme’.

Their most current project was where they held a ‘Takeover’ event at the Junction on the 8th May 2010 for the youth of Cambridge. The day involved several workshops in various areas of the Junction building including, sound and lighting, djing, spoken word, dance, beatboxxing, digital imagery and more.

The Junction Takeover scheme even has a shop in Market square which involves work they have done and also links with the idea of an interaction with a client, as they are interacting personally with The Junction to encourage a more youth friendly environment.

Below shows pictures of them working in the shop formally known as Mr Shoes in the Cambridge market square.

The Junction young ambassadors have also worked on a new Junction logo, which pictures illustrate below. This links further to the idea of an interaction project as they are clearly interacting with the Junction, the pictures even show them in the Junction lunge area.

Links to my interaction

Therefore, the Junction young ambassadors scheme is a clear example of working and interacting with a partner, as the ambassadors are working explicitly with the Junction to design their logos and help the Junction to encourage a youth friendly environment.

This links closely to the work I did on my interaction project because I also worked explicitly with the Junction to create my promo video.