Connected Communities & Design Highlight: Empowering Design Practices: historic places of worship as catalysts for connecting communities

该提案认为，社区主导的设计可以发挥历史性礼拜场所的潜力，使其成为一种非常宝贵的社区资源，也是英国民族集体文化的基本组成部分。其目的是研究社区主导的设计实践如何帮助那些照顾历史礼拜场所的人有效地参与社区并发展他们的创造能力，以“设计师”的方式思考并实现包容和可持续的地方。这就是我们所说的“授权设计实践”。该项目特别侧重于通过社区主导的设计做法，使礼拜场所敏感地适应更广泛的社区服务的潜力，以及这些做法对人、社区和场所的影响。 我们的核心合作伙伴包括咨询机构，如英国遗产（EH）和历史宗教建筑联盟（HRBA），资助者，如遗产彩票基金，设计专业人士，如赖特和赖特建筑师，以研究为基础的咨询机构，如设计研究局（BDR），以及设计支持和基础设施组织，如玻璃屋社区主导设计。学术团队将带来一系列不同的学科和观点，从建筑，设计研究，艺术和媒体到建筑历史，遗产研究和文化研究。该项目首先注意到，保护遗产的咨询机构和资助者-如遗产彩票基金-正在从一种专门侧重于建筑物物理结构的维修和恢复的模式转向一种新的重视这些地方的长期使用的模式，更大的社区参与设计过程，共同开发新的用途和解决方案，使这些地方与人和社会相关。然而，尽管发生了这些变化，人们仍然担心专业设计实践与社区的需求和实践脱节;支持和增强社区发展和拥有其空间的进程尚未确立;人们对这些进程在创造包容性和可持续场所方面的价值了解甚少。 该项目将使用基于设计和其他基于创意的调查方法（设计工作室，原型设计，视觉和情感映射，资产映射，数字讲故事），并将涉及与我们的合作伙伴合作提供的广泛社区网络的参与的多样化计划：从一对一的支持和设计研讨会与社区，同行学习活动，学习图尔斯和网络活动。该项目还将包括一个旨在在社区主导的设计实践背景下建立设计研究能力的计划。

The proposal considers the contribution community-led design can make to unlock the potential of historic places of worship to be a highly valuable community resource as well as a fundamental part of UK's national collective culture. The aim is to examine how community-led design practices can help empower those that look after historic places of worship to engage effectively with their communities and develop their creative capacity, to think 'designerly' and to realise inclusive and sustainable places. This is what we refer to as 'empowering design practices'. The project focuses specifically on the potential of places of worship to be sensitively adapted for wider community services through community-led design practices and on the impact of these practices on people, communities and place. Our core partners include advisory bodies such as English Heritage (EH) and the Historic Religious Buildings Alliance (HRBA), funders such as Heritage Lottery Fund, design professionals, such as Wright and Wright architects, research-based consultancy bodies such as the Bureau of Design Research (BDR), and design support and infrastructure organisations such as The Glass-House Community Led Design. The academic team will bring in a range of different disciplines and perspectives, from architecture, design research, arts and media to architectural history, heritage studies and cultural studies. The project starts with the observation that advisory bodies and funders for the protection of heritage - such as the Heritage Lottery Fund - are moving away from a model focused exclusively on repairs and restoration of the physical structure of buildings to a model that places a new emphasis on the long term use of these places, the engagement of the larger community in the design process and the co-production of new uses and solutions that will make the places relevant to people and society. However, despite these changes there is a concern that professional design practices are still disconnected from the needs and practices of communities; the processes that support and empower communities to develop and take ownership of their space are not well established; and there is very little understanding of the value of these processes in creating inclusive and sustainable places. The project will use design-based and other creative-based methods of enquiry (design studio, prototyping, visual and emotional mapping, asset mapping, digital storytelling) and will involve a diverse program of engagement with a wide network of communities delivered in collaboration with our partners: from one-to-one support and design workshops with communities, to peer learning events, study tours and networking activities. The project will also include a program that aims to build capacity for research by design in the context of community led design practice.