For the launch of all_2gether_now I worked with children from Shakespeare Primary School to explore three of the tower blocks which dominate the local skyline.

I wanted the children to record every aspect of the towers: exterior, interior, inhabitants, surroundings, lifts, stairwells, signage. And I wanted them to do this with every medium available. Essentially I wanted them to work like art students. So I decided to see what happened if I treated them like students rather than nine year olds!

This may seem a bizarre approach but the children quickly rose to the challenge. They showed huge amounts of enthusiasm, creativity and self-discipline - taking photographs, shooting video, conducting interviews, map making, sketching and model making. They documented, experimented, fantasies and occasionally they messed around and did silly childish things instead of what they had asked - exactly like art students in fact.

To pull it all together I worked with one of my 'grown-up' students from Leeds College of Art to hang three fabric towers in the school gym. We then spent a day with the children making an installation which incorporated all the material they had gathered and produced.

The project ended with a half-day exhibition during which around 200 children and visitors were led around the installation by the children who made it - watching videos, listening to sounds and staring up at the three 'new' Shakespeare Towers.