Take one shipping container, paint it red on the outside, fit it out with lighting, desks and state of the art filming equipment on the inside and you have one Billboard LAB. The 11.95 metre by 6.68 metre container is being used by young people in the Thames Gateway to learn about regeneration and raise issues about how the area they live in is going to be re-developed. Inside the container there is filming and editing equipment where pupils have been making videos and news reports to explore the idea of regeneration.  | | The equipment being used inside the lab |
The issues raised through this work will then be put forward to the local authority and eventually presented to the government in the first national Young People's Manifesto for Urban Development and Regeneration. The Billboard Lab has started off it's tour of the Thames Gateway at the Aveley School in Thurrock. It will stay there for eight weeks and will then move onto other schools in the Thames Gateway area You can listen to what the pupils at the Aveley School have been doing whilst working with the Billboard LAB by clicking on the link below. | 
