Thursday 29 October 2009
Day 28 - Thursday 29th October
Day 28 in the LoveEaston house.
'Visions' consultation and 'LoveJam' live music event!
Local musicians kindly gave their time to perform at the LoveJam fundraising event which was held in the outside back area of the cafe.
The images that had been produced over the previous week illustrating possible futures for sites in Easton were printed at a large scale and exhibited in the cafe for comment by those attending the event.
'Visions' consultation and 'LoveJam' live music event!
Local musicians kindly gave their time to perform at the LoveJam fundraising event which was held in the outside back area of the cafe.
The images that had been produced over the previous week illustrating possible futures for sites in Easton were printed at a large scale and exhibited in the cafe for comment by those attending the event.
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Day 23-27
Day 23 to 27 in the LoveEaston house.
Housemates camp out in the cafe with their laptops and work, work, work! Arrangements are made for the live music event that is to be held on the 29th October, sketchup models are produced for the organisation of the exhibition at the Architecture Centre. The community-led regeneration document starts to come together, with each housemate taking on a section and producing the necessary images and text.
Housemates camp out in the cafe with their laptops and work, work, work! Arrangements are made for the live music event that is to be held on the 29th October, sketchup models are produced for the organisation of the exhibition at the Architecture Centre. The community-led regeneration document starts to come together, with each housemate taking on a section and producing the necessary images and text.
Friday 23 October 2009
Day 22 - Friday 23rd October
Day 22 in the LoveEaston household.
10am - Two of the housemates visit the local recycling plant. Meet with Grant, the plant manager who gives a tour and answers questions about recycling in Bristol and more specific issues about rubbish in Easton.
2pm - Two the the housemates head back over to the local girls' school to finish the revitalising stapleton road workshop.
3pm - Phillipa Roe, surveyor for Bristol City Council meets with the housemates and Shanks at the LoveEaston cafe to judge the photo/art competition launched way back on Day 1. Three categories are judged; The best of Easton, the worst of Easton and the spirit of Easton.
4pm - The housemates run through the provisional contents and layout of the community-led regeneration document.
10am - Two of the housemates visit the local recycling plant. Meet with Grant, the plant manager who gives a tour and answers questions about recycling in Bristol and more specific issues about rubbish in Easton.
2pm - Two the the housemates head back over to the local girls' school to finish the revitalising stapleton road workshop.
3pm - Phillipa Roe, surveyor for Bristol City Council meets with the housemates and Shanks at the LoveEaston cafe to judge the photo/art competition launched way back on Day 1. Three categories are judged; The best of Easton, the worst of Easton and the spirit of Easton.
4pm - The housemates run through the provisional contents and layout of the community-led regeneration document.
Thursday 22 October 2009
Day 21 - Thursday 22nd October
Day 21 in the Love Easton house.
8.30 am - Two members of ProjectEaston have an early start, heading over to one of the local schools to run a workshop with one of the year nine classes. The team brought photos of shops along stapleton road and instigate a painting and drawing session. The class are asked to design new signs for each shop, in the hope of brightening up the main thoroughfare.
9.45 am - Team all back together. Sit down to work out the document contents and layout, page by page. This is followed by an Indesign tutorial for those who haven't used the program before.
Tick Tock Tim heads out with a shopping list (50 items) for the exhibition. Never seen again.
Afternoon - ProjectEaston members work on various things for the document and exhibition.
4pm - Tick Tock arrives back and.... finally manages to rip a yellow pages in two! Blogger muses on whether the three previous days of trying to do this lessens the success somewhat.
5pm - Food fuddle banner is hoisted in the shop window and Bex sets about making a pumpkin suprise for the evening.
6pm - Fuddle begins! The evening is really successful, mainly due to the heroic marketing efforts of Poppy. A local shop owner donates much of the food and gave us a masterclass in Somali cooking.
8.30 am - Two members of ProjectEaston have an early start, heading over to one of the local schools to run a workshop with one of the year nine classes. The team brought photos of shops along stapleton road and instigate a painting and drawing session. The class are asked to design new signs for each shop, in the hope of brightening up the main thoroughfare.
9.45 am - Team all back together. Sit down to work out the document contents and layout, page by page. This is followed by an Indesign tutorial for those who haven't used the program before.
Tick Tock Tim heads out with a shopping list (50 items) for the exhibition. Never seen again.
Afternoon - ProjectEaston members work on various things for the document and exhibition.
4pm - Tick Tock arrives back and.... finally manages to rip a yellow pages in two! Blogger muses on whether the three previous days of trying to do this lessens the success somewhat.
5pm - Food fuddle banner is hoisted in the shop window and Bex sets about making a pumpkin suprise for the evening.
6pm - Fuddle begins! The evening is really successful, mainly due to the heroic marketing efforts of Poppy. A local shop owner donates much of the food and gave us a masterclass in Somali cooking.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Day 20 - Wednesday 21st October
Day 20 in the LoveEaston house.
10am - A few housemates meet with Adrian Roper from Sustrans, in the cafe. He has brought along maps of the Easton area. These include areas showing the new 20mph limit, new Cycling City Infrastructure schemes and cycle routes. The group discuss the Cycling City initative and their plans for spending the money they had available to them. Potential future moves for further encouraging the use of bikes were discussed, along with ideas on how to improve the feeling of safety along the bath-bristol cycle route.
11.30am - Female contingent of the LoveEaston house head out to the local Pakistani womens group down the road. Photoshoped images of inital images were taken, along with precedents of possible other initatives. Issues of safety, rubbish and lack of entertainment facilities were discussed. They then treated us to a rather large and tasty curry lunch!
Afternoon - The LoveEaston household have a wander around Easton and take more comprehensive photos of areas we wish to look at further.
Evening - After dinner the housemates head out to Shanks' house for Beer and football. Sadly Chelsea win 4-0.
10am - A few housemates meet with Adrian Roper from Sustrans, in the cafe. He has brought along maps of the Easton area. These include areas showing the new 20mph limit, new Cycling City Infrastructure schemes and cycle routes. The group discuss the Cycling City initative and their plans for spending the money they had available to them. Potential future moves for further encouraging the use of bikes were discussed, along with ideas on how to improve the feeling of safety along the bath-bristol cycle route.
11.30am - Female contingent of the LoveEaston house head out to the local Pakistani womens group down the road. Photoshoped images of inital images were taken, along with precedents of possible other initatives. Issues of safety, rubbish and lack of entertainment facilities were discussed. They then treated us to a rather large and tasty curry lunch!
Afternoon - The LoveEaston household have a wander around Easton and take more comprehensive photos of areas we wish to look at further.
Evening - After dinner the housemates head out to Shanks' house for Beer and football. Sadly Chelsea win 4-0.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Day 19 - Tuesday 20th October
9am - Rat update: Blocked them in by putting suitcases and bins in front of cupboard doors and gaps between kitchen appliances. Heard them in the night trying to force their way in, thankfully their plans were thwarted!
Housemates set about working in the cafe. Tick Tock Tim and Kathy head over for a meeting with the Architecture Centre about the exhibition layout.
11am - Landlord brings over a anti-rat sonar, which we've got high hopes for.
12.30pm - Tick Tock and AJ hit the scrapyard for modelling equipment, come back with a cardboard box-load, and trivial pursuit, all for only £4!
Afternoon - Housemates work whilst Shanks mans the cafe. Various people come in for a tea and a chat throughout the day.
6pm - The community land trust have booked out the space for a talk in the evening. Housemates attempt to work quietly, more or less successfully.
Housemates set about working in the cafe. Tick Tock Tim and Kathy head over for a meeting with the Architecture Centre about the exhibition layout.
11am - Landlord brings over a anti-rat sonar, which we've got high hopes for.
12.30pm - Tick Tock and AJ hit the scrapyard for modelling equipment, come back with a cardboard box-load, and trivial pursuit, all for only £4!
Afternoon - Housemates work whilst Shanks mans the cafe. Various people come in for a tea and a chat throughout the day.
6pm - The community land trust have booked out the space for a talk in the evening. Housemates attempt to work quietly, more or less successfully.
Monday 19 October 2009
Sunday 18 October 2009
Day 18 - Monday 19th October
6am - Housemates are awoken by a rat infestation! 6 rats partying in the kitchen whilst housemates cower underneath the covers.
9am - LoveEaston house thoroughly searched for holes. Many many are found, too many to cover in fact. Vote on whether to go for the humane trap or poison. Decide to try the traps and then kill the buggers if they don't take the hint. AJ sets about trying to source a shotgun.
10am - Housemates sit down with some party tunes to work. A model extraordinaire is in the making, as well as collages, updates on the blog and the pre-requisite sending of emails.
Lunch!
1pm - Afternoon carries on much the same as the morning. The battle of wits between housemates and the wireless internet dongle finally won by housemates (via a call to 3G technical support.) - Wonder whether the phone bill can go on expenses?
6pm - Visit by Sandro, video artist. He shows us his Easton by night viral.
9am - LoveEaston house thoroughly searched for holes. Many many are found, too many to cover in fact. Vote on whether to go for the humane trap or poison. Decide to try the traps and then kill the buggers if they don't take the hint. AJ sets about trying to source a shotgun.
10am - Housemates sit down with some party tunes to work. A model extraordinaire is in the making, as well as collages, updates on the blog and the pre-requisite sending of emails.
Lunch!
1pm - Afternoon carries on much the same as the morning. The battle of wits between housemates and the wireless internet dongle finally won by housemates (via a call to 3G technical support.) - Wonder whether the phone bill can go on expenses?
6pm - Visit by Sandro, video artist. He shows us his Easton by night viral.
Day 17 - Sunday 18th October
LoveEaston housmates settle down for a day in front of the laptops. Research includes possible precedents, emails are sent and collages are produced. All whilst multi-taskingly watching a range of movies. Get us!
Saturday 17 October 2009
Day 16 - Saturday 17th October
The LoveEaston housemates take an extended tour around Easton, taking in St. Mark's road and the Thali Cafe. A trip to see the nearby eco-village is planned for later in the week.
Friday 16 October 2009
Day 15 - Friday 16th October
Day 15 in the LoveEaston House - Prue Chiles visits the housemates!
10.30 am - meeting with Jonathan Platt, an architect for GLP. He brings energy and sustainability expertise to the table and we quizz him on relevant factors affecting our potential plans.
12.00 am - Prue Chiles and one ProjectEaston member arrive, appropriately enough, in the University's hybrid Prius.
13.00pm - Meeting with Jonathan wraps up and we meet with Geoff a senior Architect who works as a community engagement adviser. Prue, the housemates and Geoff have a very enlightening conversation on the difficulties of practicing in a community-led fashion within normative architectural practice. He expresses desire to attend the Architecture Centre exhibition on the 4th November and we promise to send him an invite.
14.00pm - The housemates and Shanks give Prue a mini tour of Easton. Discussions take place around possible concepts for future planning initiatives.
Lunch!
15.30pm - Meeting back at the cafe on the moves of the LoveEaston housemates over the next three weeks. Decide that there is a lot to do, but that we are in a good position and our plans are given a go ahead.
Evening - Visit Mr. Wolf's for dinner and live music. Plenty of skanking ensues.
10.30 am - meeting with Jonathan Platt, an architect for GLP. He brings energy and sustainability expertise to the table and we quizz him on relevant factors affecting our potential plans.
12.00 am - Prue Chiles and one ProjectEaston member arrive, appropriately enough, in the University's hybrid Prius.
13.00pm - Meeting with Jonathan wraps up and we meet with Geoff a senior Architect who works as a community engagement adviser. Prue, the housemates and Geoff have a very enlightening conversation on the difficulties of practicing in a community-led fashion within normative architectural practice. He expresses desire to attend the Architecture Centre exhibition on the 4th November and we promise to send him an invite.
14.00pm - The housemates and Shanks give Prue a mini tour of Easton. Discussions take place around possible concepts for future planning initiatives.
Lunch!
15.30pm - Meeting back at the cafe on the moves of the LoveEaston housemates over the next three weeks. Decide that there is a lot to do, but that we are in a good position and our plans are given a go ahead.
Evening - Visit Mr. Wolf's for dinner and live music. Plenty of skanking ensues.
Thursday 15 October 2009
Day 10-14
Many lectures, seminars and dissertations bring us back to Sheffield. Tim, aka. Tick Tock has been laser cutting our model for 8 hours straight. Everyone has been pulling materials together whilst attending daytime lectures. We are all missing the LoveEaston quirky pad and the funny shower...
An advance contingent of ProjectEaston return to Bristol where its all happening again at our community hub. A Somali Fusion Food Fiesta attempts to bring the community together over food.
An advance contingent of ProjectEaston return to Bristol where its all happening again at our community hub. A Somali Fusion Food Fiesta attempts to bring the community together over food.
Saturday 10 October 2009
Day 9 - Saturday 10th October
Day 9 in the LoveEaston House. Design Workshop.
A very successful workshop today with a helping hand from the Department Lounge architects. In the morning after the introduction we split up into seven groups to visit an identified site and to explore in the workshop. We spent an hour at each site and did lots of brainstorming and generated many ideas. To prepare for the end of the day presentation we drew and made physical models. Some local residents even nearly cried with the joy of potential project proposals.
Friday 9 October 2009
Day 8- Friday 9th October
Day 8 in the LoveEaston House. Workshop Preparation.
The group went out around the potential sites of Easton for the design workshop tomorrow.
By night we went to an event which can be classed as work and social. The judging panel will give all the money paid for drinks on the night to an applicant winner. So the idea is the more we drink the more we win. We didn't win, but we still have the LoveEaston spirit and an hangover in the morning haha.
Thursday 8 October 2009
Day 7 - Thursday 8th October
Day 7 in the LoveEaston House. FOOD FUDDLE!!
Some very yummy dishes at the food fuddle tonight. We would have liked more people to attend the event, but had a good natter and a feast to eat anyway. Bex made a vegetable curry and its leftovers will keep us going for days!
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Day 6- Wednesday 7th October
Day 6 in the LoveEaston House. GreenSpace/ Hamper
A workshop drop-in day led by Rob McGovern from Green Space, a project officer from the Bristol City Council. Together we examined the green spaces in Easton and where we would them, how we would get to them...
Kathy has be pacing down Stapleton Road businesses on 3 missions. 1- In-store consultations 2-To promote our ‘Food Fuddle’ 3- To find donations to build the hamper. After retiring in for lunch from the rain she managed to get some coool stuff such as 5-day leisure centre membership and a football yeahhh!
The group started to plan the contents page for the document and decided what information/ research should be gathered in Bristol and what can be done in our week in Sheffield next week.
A workshop drop-in day led by Rob McGovern from Green Space, a project officer from the Bristol City Council. Together we examined the green spaces in Easton and where we would them, how we would get to them...
Kathy has be pacing down Stapleton Road businesses on 3 missions. 1- In-store consultations 2-To promote our ‘Food Fuddle’ 3- To find donations to build the hamper. After retiring in for lunch from the rain she managed to get some coool stuff such as 5-day leisure centre membership and a football yeahhh!
The group started to plan the contents page for the document and decided what information/ research should be gathered in Bristol and what can be done in our week in Sheffield next week.
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Day 5- Tuesday 6th October
Day 5 in the LoveEaston House. In dear need of funds!
We need to raise an amount of funds to cover food and drink on our opening exhibition night at the Architecture Centre. Therefore fundraising ideas became was stipulated. For now we are planning to hold a gig in the café and sell raffles to win a hamper.
Preparation gets underway with our new ‘Food Fuddle’ event, and everyone has been pacing around all day to collect information and history surrounding Easton.
Juliet also gave a presentation on her previous project of ‘Park Hill, Sheffield’. This allowed us to see how she tackled that area from a different perspective to Easton. It gives us a fair idea what content and demographic studies we would like in our document.
Tonight is the [Duty to Involve Debate: What it Means to Community Led Design?] Building up to Shanks Love Easton presentation we covered various issues on community-led design. How can we transform vision into a reality? How much say should the public have in how their communities are developed? Consultations is a huge driving factor and they are many vehicles for these consultations such models, workshops.
We need to raise an amount of funds to cover food and drink on our opening exhibition night at the Architecture Centre. Therefore fundraising ideas became was stipulated. For now we are planning to hold a gig in the café and sell raffles to win a hamper.
Preparation gets underway with our new ‘Food Fuddle’ event, and everyone has been pacing around all day to collect information and history surrounding Easton.
Juliet also gave a presentation on her previous project of ‘Park Hill, Sheffield’. This allowed us to see how she tackled that area from a different perspective to Easton. It gives us a fair idea what content and demographic studies we would like in our document.
Tonight is the [Duty to Involve Debate: What it Means to Community Led Design?] Building up to Shanks Love Easton presentation we covered various issues on community-led design. How can we transform vision into a reality? How much say should the public have in how their communities are developed? Consultations is a huge driving factor and they are many vehicles for these consultations such models, workshops.
Monday 5 October 2009
Day 4- Monday 5th October
Day four in the LoveEaston house: Cabot Circus Debate!Attended one of Pierian Centres frequent debates which examines the effects of a new retail development in the city centre named Cabot Circus.
With this development there are surrounding issues which has arisen as a consequence to the 3 tier shopping centre. One of which is beginning to shape the existing city centre retail/ commercial units as they talk about ‘ghost malls’ etc. There is an interesting study which captures the international spirit of the 59 nationalities of site workers through singing and food as a common link.
As highlight in the debate series, food is a common link between all cultures. Preparation also gets going for our 'Food Fuddle' event on Thursday night. We are hoping this idea of a 'bring and share' food get-together will bring the multicultural community together for consultations.
Recieved a stack of information to digest from Shanks ...Lovely reading!
Sunday 4 October 2009
Day 3 - Sunday 4th October
Day 3 in the LoveEaston house.
Trip to Tesco to stock up. Head over to pick up bikes, kindly donated to us for the duration of the project by members of the City Church in Bristol. Felt very adventurous cycling around!
Debrief back at the LoveEaston house, Shanks brings around some documentation on previous planning strategies in the area and community groups that we could potentially get in touch with. ProjectEaston writes up an action plan for the coming week, allocating specific jobs to each member of the team. These include, further research into past engagment in Easton, urban design precedent studies, getting the blog up and running and the organisation of a couple of fundraising events.
Trip to Tesco to stock up. Head over to pick up bikes, kindly donated to us for the duration of the project by members of the City Church in Bristol. Felt very adventurous cycling around!
Debrief back at the LoveEaston house, Shanks brings around some documentation on previous planning strategies in the area and community groups that we could potentially get in touch with. ProjectEaston writes up an action plan for the coming week, allocating specific jobs to each member of the team. These include, further research into past engagment in Easton, urban design precedent studies, getting the blog up and running and the organisation of a couple of fundraising events.
Saturday 3 October 2009
Day 2 - Saturday 3rd October
Day two in the LoveEaston house. STAPLETON ROAD STREET FAIR!
9am in the LoveEaston house. Bex takes issue with the crockery, treating members of the EastonProject team to an interesting take on the alarm clock.
10am - Breakfast. Time for further investigation of the amenities proved on Stapleton Road. Manage to source helium for afternoon's engagment techniques.
12am - Fair begins! ProjectEaston team don painted pinnies and facepaint and, website postcards in hand. hit the cafe and street outside. The fair included live music, amateur dramatics, food stalls, games and brick a brack. We managed to speak to many local residents who were attending the fair, finding out about the area, the good points and the bad points. Maps of Easton had been printed out and placed in the cafe, where visitors could use tacks and tags to add their comments. LoveEaston members sold drinks and homemade cakes, which worked in addition to the ProjectEaston team's efforts to attract people in to chat.
After the street fair wound up and dinner was cooked and eaten, the housemates headed out to meet Shanks at Canteen, a new and rather trendy bar in Bristol. A live ska band called the Idiot Savants were playing and quite a lot of skanking ensued.
9am in the LoveEaston house. Bex takes issue with the crockery, treating members of the EastonProject team to an interesting take on the alarm clock.
10am - Breakfast. Time for further investigation of the amenities proved on Stapleton Road. Manage to source helium for afternoon's engagment techniques.
12am - Fair begins! ProjectEaston team don painted pinnies and facepaint and, website postcards in hand. hit the cafe and street outside. The fair included live music, amateur dramatics, food stalls, games and brick a brack. We managed to speak to many local residents who were attending the fair, finding out about the area, the good points and the bad points. Maps of Easton had been printed out and placed in the cafe, where visitors could use tacks and tags to add their comments. LoveEaston members sold drinks and homemade cakes, which worked in addition to the ProjectEaston team's efforts to attract people in to chat.
After the street fair wound up and dinner was cooked and eaten, the housemates headed out to meet Shanks at Canteen, a new and rather trendy bar in Bristol. A live ska band called the Idiot Savants were playing and quite a lot of skanking ensued.
Friday 2 October 2009
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- ProjectLoveEaston
- Local residents and architects have taken the initiative to find out what their community wants during a month-long intensive consultation this October. The aim is to create a shared vision for Easton’s future which will then be developed into a strategic, community-led regeneration document that reflects local people’s aspirations. This urban regeneration document will clearly set out residents’ visions and will not only give the community more power at the planning stage but will also be invaluable for developers and the local authority. The ProjectEaston team is based out of the LoveEaston cafe on Stapleton Rd for the duration of the project and the outcomes will be exhibited at the Bristol Architecture Centre from the 3rd November. Come along!
