Welcome to the Empowering Design Practices e-newsletter
Issue #1
In October 2014, we launched the collaborative research project,
Empowering Design Practices: historic places of worship as catalysts for connecting communities.
We are working with the guardians of historic places of worship to help explore creative ways to engage with their communities to develop more open and sustainable places that can respond to wider societal needs.
In the first year of the Empowering Design Practices (EDP) project, we have worked with people and places of worship across England, learning about their practices in transforming their historic buildings, the challenges they face and their aspirations for supporting their communities and enhancing local heritage.
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In this strand of the project, we set out to learn from successful examples of community-led initiatives to transform historic places of worship. As well as desk research, we've run workshops with communities and congregations in St Luke's Church Oxford, the Sheffield Buddhist Centre and St Martin's Bilborough in Nottingham. In these workshops, we worked with the groups to explore their spaces and to understand their perceptions and values regarding design, faith, heritage and community. We also worked with them to map the milestones and key assets of their community-led design journeys and extracted learning that could be useful for those at the beginning of a similar process of development. We'll visit many more groups for similar workshops in 2016.
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