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

Even when there is a clear design intent, it is easy to get lost in the journey. The journey of making design changes in a building (however big or small) …

Professional designers, like architects, often use three key terms to describe spaces: form, function and feeling. Introducing some simple definitions will help, especially non-professional designers, to develop and communicate thoughts …

Designers use different tools and techniques to help identify users and stakeholders in a design process, and to start researching their needs, aspirations, experiences and attitudes. Here you will focus …

Having a sense of the challenges and opportunities that exist for a community-led design project, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a group to move forward. In many …

Funders and grant-givers like to understand what engagement has been undertaken so they get a sense of how their grant will impact the wider community. It is therefore important to …

The short film above was shot during a two-day Design Training course course delivered as part of the Empowering Design Practices course in Sheffield. The course brought together four community …

One way to shape and share our thoughts about the design of buildings is to use themes. Architects often use design themes or principles in order to analyse and evaluate …

It is important to think about community engagement as a process in time. For a successful project there will be a number of different engagement activities, at different times, to …