Stretford Public Hall 14/10/2017
Members of the public, give a brief description of themselves
Members of the public pick out their most desired attractions.
Stretford Public Hall 14/10/2017
The lead up to the event was a challenging yet rewarding experience. As a group of 4 young architecture students, relatively new to each other and our individual ways of working, we found it hard at first to find a common ground as to how we approach the planned event at Stretford Public Hall and furthermore how we can all mutually get the information we desire, moving beyond the event.
Though this was time-consuming and seemed unproductive to begin with, it allowed us to strengthen our identity as a practice that shared our collective interests.
As a consequence, proposing activities became very easy and moved quickly once we gained that mutual understanding and in a matter of 24 hours we proposed and completed 4 activities/engagements that would allow us to generate a wide scope of feedback from the public.
The lead up to the event was a challenging yet rewarding experience. As a group of 4 young architecture students, relatively new to each other and our individual ways of working, we found it hard at first to find a common ground as to how we approach the planned event at Stretford Public Hall and furthermore how we can all mutually get the information we desire, moving beyond the event.
Though this was time-consuming and seemed unproductive to begin with, it allowed us to strengthen our identity as a practice that shared our collective interests.
As a consequence, proposing activities became very easy and moved quickly once we gained that mutual understanding and in a matter of 24 hours we proposed and completed 4 activities/engagements that would allow us to generate a wide scope of feedback from the public.
Reflection
The event took place on Saturday 14th October at Stretford Public Hall, with guests invited from the local community, schools and council. After taking a little while to get the ball rolling prior the event, we managed to set up our stall quickly and sharply in the morning with time to chill before the event started.
The day was an overwhelming success. The level of engagement that we received from the public was everything and more than we had hoped for. We had over 50 participants, all of a very diverse nature from nursery school children to the elderly and the local community to the local council and town planners. We found that each of our activities engaged the diverse demographics in very different ways and we were also surprised to see how the public adapted our route map to jot down rough ideas and concerns. Triumphantly we gained relative information from each station that would allow us move forward with our project in an informed manner.
The Event
Improvements
Organisation
order
options
As mentioned before, as a group we took a while to come up with our event. Though we came together in the end, being more organised would've allowed us to have time to demo our activities and anticipate how the public may interact with them.
Though our event was a success, it could've perhaps been structured better so that there was an order in which visitors took part in each activity. This could've ensured that all members of the public had a chance at participating in all activities.
We found that the public came up with attractions that we never thought of, meaning we had to improvise and create rough counters to add to the board game.
As our identity cards had numerous colour variations which also did not correlate directly to the sticker system in the rate me activity, it caused confusion which could've been avoided with a simpler system.
