Hi @reeflings !
As many of you know, the common spaces helping circle (with people from Team Facilitation and Team Building) has been tasked with providing the architects with as clear a position as possible for a common spaces programme, to go with the individual units programme, in August. This has involved:
- A first survey (focusing on preferences with regard to spaces)
- A second survey (a more detailed focus on functionality and usage)
- A workshop (using a storytelling technique to identify overlapping values and functions)
- Visits to the cohousings at Tivoli and l’Echappée
For those interested in the specific results from these processes:
- The individual surveys and overview documents for the first survey can be found in this folder: Login – Nextcloud. You can also read the post at the top of this thread, which was written shortly afterwards.
- The second survey included questions about spatial configuration, frequency of use, etc., with additional questions about financing and level of initial construction we want to go for. Overview documents can be found in this folder: Login – Nextcloud.
- The workshop was in three parts (storytelling, shared values/functions and visual representation of space). Photos, videos and overview documents can be found in this folder: Login – Nextcloud.
- Info on the visits to Tivoli and l’Echappée can be found here: https://edgeryders.eu/t/what-we-learned-at-tivoli/18644/6 and Visit to l'Echappée (July 2024)
At recent plenaries, two related proposals have been consented to:
- Number of bike spaces: Login – Nextcloud
- Accessibility – proposal on elevators: Login – Nextcloud
There have also been two recent developments with regard to this ongoing discussion:
- At a recent plenary, Alberto argued for a minimalist approach to the initial stage of setting up the common spaces (for more info, see this thread: How buildings learn: some reading as we prepare to discuss common spaces and other building-related matters), which was generally agreed to as a basic principle.
- At a recent Full Members meeting, Lie argued for an approach at this stage which involved asking for everything, regardless of budget, and then adjusting once we have all the info regarding costs and space requirements from the architects, which was consented to.
The next, and final, step in this process is for the helping circle to put together a proposal of what information/requirements we will give to the architects in mid-August, based on all of the information gathered above, and for that proposal to be consented to either at the next Full Members meeting or at the plenary meeting on 14 August.
The proposal can be found here: Login – Nextcloud
It should be noted that the specific requests from the architects with regard to the info we give them were:
- Can we articulate our wish list in terms of ‘common functions’ rather than ‘common spaces’?
- How many bikes spaces do we want?
- Would we like more space at the -1 level?
- What do we want to do regarding elevators ?
This proposal is still a working document. You are welcome to make comments, either in the thread below or in the document, but please do not edit the text…
