At the Sheffield School of Architecture and Landscape we believe that architecture education should have engaged learning at its heart... we call this Liveness! Through Liveness, our students gain experience in engagement, co-production and collaboration with community and civic partners in Sheffield and beyond. Our Liveness Charter is an advocacy tool to share the ethos of Liveness with everyone in the School community, and with our external partners, so that they have an understanding of the activities, values and aims of the Liveness approach. 

Live Works is the first permanent university-funded Urban Room in the UK and a founding member of the Urban Rooms Network. An Urban Room is a space where people can come together to help create a future for their local area. URN members are drawn from the arts, planning, architecture, education, heritage, community and local government. The Urban Rooms Network shares best practice via the Urban Rooms Toolkit, gathered from innovators in the field, with the aim of promoting the inclusive and creative engagement of local communities in placemaking through Urban Rooms.