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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

Consultation Postcard

Stapleton Road Fair - Take 2