CONTENTS Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales vii Preface: Consensus Design in context by Rosie Parnell ix Acknowledgements xviii PART 1 : INTRODUCTION 1 1 Architecture as a social art : a journey 3 PART 2 : CONSENSUS DESIGN: WHY? 7 2 Why : community design and place 9 What shapes places? 9 Design by the community: why?10 What design involvement does for the community 11 3 Why not : shouldn't professionals lead design? 16 4 Consensus versus democracy 19 5Community & players 24 Surviving change 24 Community and non-community 25 Players 27 Players, community and non-community 28 6 Design process for sustainability 30 Proprietary stewardship 31 Development within time-continuum 32 Elemental sustainabilities 33 PART 3 : CONSENSUS DESIGN: HOW? 35 7 The principles behind the process 37 Ideas and aspirations 37 Spirit-of-place 40 Science and art: understanding and creating 42 Levels of place: beneath the surface 45 8 How in practice: place-study 50 Place and project 50 Working with place 51 Processes of change : visible and invisible52 Place-study54 9 How in practice: outline design 66 Matching project to place66 Spirit-of-project67 Mood of place69 Time and life related71 Physical72 Growing places 76 10 How in practice : consensual building design81 Building and place81 Rough design 81 Moving into three dimensions 82 Organizing diagrams 85 Detail design 85 PART 4 : PROCESS DEVELOPMENT : TWO PROJECTS89 11 From experimental method to built project : Goethean Science Centre, Scotland 91 Two stages : one process 91 Reflections 102 12 Socially shaped process : eco-village, Sweden 103 Reflections 108 PART 5 : MAKING IT WORK109 13 Leadership and teamship111 Leadership : a new model 111 Knowledge : power or fertilizing enabler 113 14 Social Technique 116 Social technique with unequal groups 116 Group process 116 Confirming decisions 121 Recapitulation : anchoring where we've got to 122 15 Technique and non-technique 123 Dead technique, live technique 123 The demands of circumstance 124 Thinking the process versus doing the process 128 Taking time 128 Understanding behind doing 129 16 What can go wrong? What can go right? 130 PART 6 : PROJECTS 135 17 Reversing moods : lunatic asylum to Steiner school, Brighton 137 One-day process 137 Reflections 145 18 Redeeming buildings : East Bay Waldorf School, California146 Short-, medium- and long-term development 146 Rescuing the existing building 146 Reflections 149 19 Future growth : East Bay Waldorf School, California 152 Site development strategy 152 High-school building 159 Reflections 163 20 Working with a developer : mixed-use urban development, California 164 A different climate, culture, project 164 Reflections 172 21 Multiple viewpoints: multi-cultural, multi-faith centre, London 174 Project launch 174 Site development strategy 177 The buildings 179 Reflections 183 22 Desert ranch: single-family house, Arizona 187 Place-study 187 Outline design 188 Design development 188 Reflections 191 23 Science Centre revisited : Goethean Science Centre, Scotland 193 Residential building 193 The social centre 195 Reflections 201 PART 7 : BROADER IMPLICATIONS203 24 Social process as artistic method205 PART 8 : USEFUL PRACTICALITIES 209 25 What you need211 26 Sample timetables 213 Healing centre 213 Community centre 214 27 Sample participation structure 216 28 Assessment matrix 219 Index 221