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Designing places with people: four booklets
This is a set of booklets that offer a basic introduction to transforming historic places of worship through community engagement, tips for developing an engagement strategy and advice on making engagement count by capturing data from your activities.
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Click on the images to view and download the booklets.
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TRANSFORMING HISTORIC PLACES OF WORSHIP THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
This resource offers a basic introduction to community engagement in design, taking into consideration the sensitivities of historic places of worship. 
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TIPS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
This resource provides advice on how to develop an effective strategy for engaging others in your project. It will help you develop a broad understanding of the value and various objectives of engagement and is useful for communities and professionals alike. 
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MAKING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COUNT
This resource provides advice and inspiration to help you plan how to use different approaches and methods of eliciting community views and opinions and to capture data and evidence that is useful for your project. 
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TESTING IDEAS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY BUILDING
This booklet explores the concept of prototyping and testing as a vehicle for developing ideas for new uses and configurations of space while engaging and exploring connections and partnerships with the wider community. 
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