Course: Enabling Community-Based Leadership in Design: Sustainable Development of Historic Faith Buildings

Although interest in promoting community-led design practices has been around since the 1960s, with many successful examples, community-led design is far from being a mainstream practice. One of the reasons …

Embarking on a design process to transform a place of worship means embarking on a complex journey of collaboration and negotiation. As there will be many players involved, it is …

When thinking about the possible future of a historic place of worship, any transformation or design decisions will be enhanced by involving those that are or can be part of …

Design is all around us. From our kettles to our cathedrals, design solves problems, creates opportunities, affects our emotions and senses, and helps us function. We can easily forget that …

In the examples you explored so far it was evident that when community groups lead the design process, by inviting and taking a diverse set of people with them to …

This film was created during a workshop that brought together support and development officers, community members, funders and architects. It shows different aspects and perspectives on community engagement and documents …

In the previous section you explored the notion of design leadership. Starting from the idea that any individual has the capability to use design in their everyday, in the previous …

Many people find the prospect of designing daunting; they might think that they lack creativity, or that advanced drawing or visual communication skills are required. The reality is that everyone …

One of the key obstacles community groups face is that they are burdened by a wide range of complex and pressing challenges. In historic places of worship, this may the …

Community-led design is a notion that connects to a longstanding tradition in architecture and planning which aims to give citizens and communities centre stage in the processes of shaping and …

This film tells the story of St Michael and All Angels in Whitton Gilbert, near Durham. It presents the process of reordering and adding a new extension in the the …

This film tells the story of St Luke’s Oxford. It presents the process of developing a new building on the footprint of the church that stood there before and discusses …

The story of St Martin’s Bilborough which you read in the previous section is the story of a ‘place’ that was in some sense ‘resurrected’ from its own hidden treasures …

This week is focussed on how one can instigate and nurture community-based leadership in the design and adaptation of historic faith buildings. Clearly, there is no ‘one size fits all’ …

The idea that communities should partake in design decisions that affect them, has a long history. The notion of community engagement has been linked to a wide range of terms …