Group meeting

Today we met to consider proposals for passive, active and provocative participation techniques to encourage social engagement and interaction with the building and the existing community networks. The techniques involve considering participation as both an on going process through client meetings and the attending of activities within the community centre to stimulative participation that will highlight the centres presence within the varying communities. These events will take place at various locations within the ward to provide a spectrum of responses from these divergent communities.

As a group we discussed the manifestation of these techniques within the urban realm and decided that they will carried out within three distinct boundaries:

1. inside the premises
2. within the site boundary
3. within the community

this, created a matrix of activities that could happen at each scale and what the purpose of each event would be, either to gain information, to gather information or to highlight the churches presence.

It was then discussed that the group would continue with its current subgrouping of environmental, physical and social to address the issues which the church require resolution on; green issues, storage and community interactions respectively along with each team considering the technical issues involved within their respective category.