Supporting Regeneration Professionals

The Challenge:

Members of the community are an invaluable resource in the visioning, brief development and design of physical regeneration projects. The people who live, work, study and play in an area hold essential knowledge and foster relationships that can determine the success and sustainability of a regenerated area. The challenge is how to effectively harness local knowledge, skills and networks to help move a regeneration project forward.

Regeneration teams can find community participation daunting, and do not always have the skills, confidence or resources to plan and implement an effective community participation strategy.

What we do:

As an independent enabler, The Glass-House can provide staff development for your team, and in partnership, devise and facilitate workshops and programmes for community participants. The Glass-House can help you work better with local people throughout the visioning, brief development and design process of the project.

We help you:

• put design quality at the top of the agenda, informing and inspiring community stakeholders and professionals on the value of good design
• develop practical strategies for a successful participatory design process
• provide community groups with the skills and confidence to play an active role in informing and supporting the design process

What we do not do:

• Work that does not enable a community to play an informed and meaningful role in the regeneration process
• Consultations which do not involve a community engagement process

We offer:

a range of workshops that enable professionals and staff teams to address, manage and utilise community participation on the design of regeneration projects more effectively. We have a 3 stage process, and encourage you to consider where you are in the 3 stages, rather than simply requesting

Stage 1:

workshops for professionals and staff teams –

• Raising awareness and understanding of Community Led Design
• Looking at opportunities for, and benefit of, engagement of the community in design process
• Intro to good practice and early tools

Stage 2:

workshops for professionals and staff teams –

• Developing a staged process for participatory design;
• Developing terms of reference for working with residents.
  

Stage 3:

workshops for residents and/or community stakeholders and staff related to the regeneration project –

• Project based Design Training for residents and staff