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
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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!
