{"id":667,"date":"2014-10-07T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greendreams.org.uk\/?page_id=667"},"modified":"2017-01-23T01:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:15:33","slug":"consultation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greendreams.org.uk\/consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section admin_label=\"section\"][et_pb_row admin_label=\"row\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Title\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n

Consultation<\/h2>\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=\"Divider 10\" color=\"#c9e2e2\" show_divider=\"on\" height=\"10\"] [\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n\r\nConsultation and engagement are not just a tick box item but at the heart of how we approach a new project. We always start with meetings on site,\u00a0 stimulating and listening to people's conversations as they walk about the space. Noticing how people respond to the space now and their aspirations for its future. We often invite play workers in to engage children in the space which usually brings out the adults to talk as well. Sometimes we use temporary interventions in the space to open people's eyes to the possibilities for change.\u00a0 Many people find plans difficult to visualise so these interventions can help them see the potential for change.\r\n\r\nWe always ensure we use a variety of ways to engage people in the design and feedback process from being available on site in the evenings and weekends, going door to door to gain peoples view, creating blogs, design workshops as well as more formal meetings.\u00a0 We encourage groups to set up a design panel to create a forum for over-seeing the design process.\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=\"row\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]\r\n

Gascoigne Estate<\/h3>\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_color=\"#ffffff\" border_style=\"solid\"]\r\n\r\nAt Gascoigne Estate the consultation was wrapped around an Apple Day where we claimed back the car park\u00a0 for pedestrians for the day using straw bales and big bamboo planters.\u00a0 Stalls offered apple themed food,\u00a0 freshly squeezed apple juice and a cafe was created on a usually problematic area of deck. Suddenly the space felt much more spacious and full of possibilities for socialising.\u00a0 Plans and sketches were printed onto large plastic banners and hung along the front of the tower block so people had time to look at them over several weeks and leave their comments.\r\n\r\nArtists Janet Hodgson and Michaela Ross generated community discussion around the potential for change\u00a0 of the underground carpark at the site. They constructed an installation at the entrance to the currently-unused,underground car park and invited residents and visitors to chose images which were then projected to create a 3-D collage. When participants had chosen their images, they were invited to become a part of the installation.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"images\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\"]\r\n\r\n