Empowering Design Practices – Resources and Courses – Enabling Community Based leadership in Design of Sustainable Development of Historic Faith Buildings

Empowering Design Practices is a five-year collaborative research project exploring how community-led design can help empower those who look after historic places of worship to create more open, vibrant and sustainable places that respect and enhance their heritage. The Outcome of the Open University research project (on involving communities in using places of worship) is an online course – free for the general public, with a fee payable if used for the purposes of professional development. The course went online just before Christmas, and can be found via this link. 

Alternatively, you can utilise the many resources produced by this initiative, such as: 

• Community-Led Transformation Of Historic Places Of Worship: Some Key Considerations;
• Transforming Historic Places of Worship Through Community Engagement
• Tips for Your Community Engagement Strategy
• Making Community Engagement Count
• Testing Ideas for Your Community Building 

Which you can find by following this link.