Engaging communities in design decision-making
Event Information
Description
This free workshop is for groups looking after historic places of worship who are thinking about ways to transform or better utilise their building to serve the needs of their faith community as well as their wider local community. The workshop will help you explore how to engage and work with others in order to unlock the potential of your building and inform design decision making.
In the morning, we will hear from St Luke's, Oxford and Graylingwell Chapel, Chichester who have led projects that successfully and creatively engaged others in their building design/development process, and will discuss key considerations for developing an engagement strategy. In the afternoon, we’ll launch a set of practical resources developed through the Empowering Design Practices project, and offer brief taster sessions for the various resources. We will close with a drinks reception and networking at 17:00.
There are some travel bursaries available for community members, please get in touch for more details.
The event is free but registration is essential. If you have any questions contact us at empoweringdesign@gmail.com
Organiser Empowering Design Practices
Organiser of Engaging communities in design decision-making
Empowering Design Practices is a research project exploring how community-led design can help empower those who look after historic places of worship to create more open, vibrant and sustainable places that respect and enhance their heritage.
Working within this context, the project aims to develop insights and mechanisms (approaches, resources, training) to support community-led design and the development of places that connect and serve their communities.
Empowering Design Practices (2014-2020) is a collaboration between The Open University, The Glass-House Community Led Design, Historic England, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Historic Religious Buildings Alliance, working with consultants Stephen Smith (Wright & Wright Architects), Leo Care (Live Works) and Becky Payne.
The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, under the Connected Communities and Design highlight notice.
The full name of the project is Empowering Design Practices: historic places of worship as catalysts for connecting communities
