About This Live Project

The Live Project aims to reconsider the estate in terms of navigation, identity, ownership, connections, environment, community, security and the long term future of Lansdowne

We hope to raise aspirations for the area and challenge the view that the estate is fixed with little opportunity for local people to make an impact in their built environment.

We aim to devise forms of communication and representation that can creatively engage people living in the estate, tackling architectural issues for the shared spaces in the estate.

This may be in the form of physical permanent and/or temporary interventions within Lansdowne.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

First Meeting of the Lansdowne Live Project Team


Group Meeting 01/10/2008
The Lansdowne Team met for the first initial debrief following the first client meeting onsite on 30/10/2008.

The agenda of the meeting established a team structure, with primary client contact (Leanna Boxill), finance officer (Heather McGill) and blog manager agreed (Dave Sparks).
The meeting established the course of action for the coming week, mapping. This was agreed to be the initial priority, as to tackle wider areas of the project (identity, navigation), we felt it was important to begin to understand the site from a range of different perspective. Teams were allocated to undertake a range of mapping techniques:
Yogesh, Josh and Tom are heading to site to contact Activity Sheffield to begin to explore route finding among younger residents of the estate.
Ariadna, Derong and Leanna are beginning with a comprehensive site survey, and moving towards more creative survey techniques.
The meeting also exposed some of the initial ideas for the development of the Live Project:
- Master plan Document
- Events
- Considering Issues of Security and High Risk Areas
- Responding to Cultural Diversity
- Involving younger generations of Lansdowne Residents to build trust
- Involvement of Community Forester
- Long term engagement with Lansdowne
- Community Garden
- Programming and Information Transfer
- Addressing Block Division
- Networking - Relationship between Lansdowne and Sheffield
- Memory Navigation
It is proposed that this blog becomes an increasingly important and public part of the Live Project, becoming a bank of information, and crucially, making all the information we generate available to visitors.
More information to follow....
Goat Watch= No sightings as yet...

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