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Event details: Help us craft the co-housing plan for an ambitious sustainable community development on the edge of High Wycombe.

Human + Nature are holding a community design and public engagement event in the Gomm Valley, High Wycombe, on 30th June & 1st July. We aim to put on an upbeat, accessible and enjoyable professional-run event akin to a mini-festival.

As part of the event we will run four workshops to kick start a collaborative design process between architects and potential co-housing residents to shape the place they would like to live. We will consider co-housing right across the site as a whole, including its shared amenities, down to the scale of the neighbourhood and the home. The ideas generated will feed into the design process for coming up with a shared vision and plan.

The workshops will provide participants with an opportunity to share knowledge, inform design proposals, and form groups that may develop into housing cooperatives.

The workshops will be one of many events laid on throughout the weekend including guided site tours, talks and round table discussions. Large scale plans, drawings and models with be on display with initial ideas for the scheme. Food and refreshments will be provided and there will be workshops and play areas for children.

Who should come: Everyone will be welcome to an inclusive atmosphere, and the workshop will be especially interesting to individuals wishing to form a housing cooperative, or who are forming such a group, and want be involved in the co-design of their future community.

Workshop times: Two 1 hr workshops each day, on Saturday 30th June & Sunday 1st July; Morning workshop 11am-noon, Afternoon workshop 2-3pm.

Register your interest in the co-housing workshops with timfisher1978@gmail.com

Location: Gomm Valley, High Wycombe (confirmation of venue and practical details will be published on the website)

Website: gommvalley.com

Event details: Help us craft the co-housing plan for an ambitious sustainable community development on the edge of High Wycombe.

Human + Nature are holding a community design and public engagement event in the Gomm Valley, High Wycombe, on 30th June & 1st July. We aim to put on an upbeat, accessible and enjoyable professional-run event akin to a mini-festival.

As part of the event we will run four workshops to kick start a collaborative design process between architects and potential co-housing residents to shape the place they would like to live. We will consider co-housing right across the site as a whole, including its shared amenities, down to the scale of the neighbourhood and the home. The ideas generated will feed into the design process for coming up with a shared vision and plan.

The workshops will provide participants with an opportunity to share knowledge, inform design proposals, and form groups that may develop into housing cooperatives.

The workshops will be one of many events laid on throughout the weekend including guided site tours, talks and round table discussions. Large scale plans, drawings and models with be on display with initial ideas for the scheme. Food and refreshments will be provided and there will be workshops and play areas for children.

Who should come: Everyone will be welcome to an inclusive atmosphere, and the workshop will be especially interesting to individuals wishing to form a housing cooperative, or who are forming such a group, and want be involved in the co-design of their future community.

Workshop times: Two 1 hr workshops each day, on Saturday 30th June & Sunday 1st July; Morning workshop 11am-noon, Afternoon workshop 2-3pm.

Register your interest in the co-housing workshops with timfisher1978@gmail.com

Location: Gomm Valley, High Wycombe (confirmation of venue and practical details will be published on the website)

Website: gommvalley.com

Event details: Help us craft the co-housing plan for an ambitious sustainable community development on the edge of High Wycombe.

Human + Nature are holding a community design and public engagement event in the Gomm Valley, High Wycombe, on 30th June & 1st July. We aim to put on an upbeat, accessible and enjoyable professional-run event akin to a mini-festival.

As part of the event we will run four workshops to kick start a collaborative design process between architects and potential co-housing residents to shape the place they would like to live. We will consider co-housing right across the site as a whole, including its shared amenities, down to the scale of the neighbourhood and the home. The ideas generated will feed into the design process for coming up with a shared vision and plan.

The workshops will provide participants with an opportunity to share knowledge, inform design proposals, and form groups that may develop into housing cooperatives.

The workshops will be one of many events laid on throughout the weekend including guided site tours, talks and round table discussions. Large scale plans, drawings and models with be on display with initial ideas for the scheme. Food and refreshments will be provided and there will be workshops and play areas for children.

Who should come: Everyone will be welcome to an inclusive atmosphere, and the workshop will be especially interesting to individuals wishing to form a housing cooperative, or who are forming such a group, and want be involved in the co-design of their future community.

Workshop times: Two 1 hr workshops each day, on Saturday 30th June & Sunday 1st July; Morning workshop 11am-noon, Afternoon workshop 2-3pm.

Register your interest in the co-housing workshops with timfisher1978@gmail.com

Location: Gomm Valley, High Wycombe (confirmation of venue and practical details will be published on the website)

Website: gommvalley.com

Event details: Help us craft the co-housing plan for an ambitious sustainable community development on the edge of High Wycombe.

Human + Nature are holding a community design and public engagement event in the Gomm Valley, High Wycombe, on 30th June & 1st July. We aim to put on an upbeat, accessible and enjoyable professional-run event akin to a mini-festival.

As part of the event we will run four workshops to kick start a collaborative design process between architects and potential co-housing residents to shape the place they would like to live. We will consider co-housing right across the site as a whole, including its shared amenities, down to the scale of the neighbourhood and the home. The ideas generated will feed into the design process for coming up with a shared vision and plan.

The workshops will provide participants with an opportunity to share knowledge, inform design proposals, and form groups that may develop into housing cooperatives.

The workshops will be one of many events laid on throughout the weekend including guided site tours, talks and round table discussions. Large scale plans, drawings and models with be on display with initial ideas for the scheme. Food and refreshments will be provided and there will be workshops and play areas for children.

Who should come: Everyone will be welcome to an inclusive atmosphere, and the workshop will be especially interesting to individuals wishing to form a housing cooperative, or who are forming such a group, and want be involved in the co-design of their future community.

Workshop times: Two 1 hr workshops each day, on Saturday 30th June & Sunday 1st July; Morning workshop 11am-noon, Afternoon workshop 2-3pm.

Register your interest in the co-housing workshops with timfisher1978@gmail.com

Location: Gomm Valley, High Wycombe (confirmation of venue and practical details will be published on the website)

Website: gommvalley.com

The Intentional Communities Research and Enterprise group will be hosting their third symposium entitled ‘Intentional Communities – Joining, Leaving and everything in between’. The morning will consist of presentations from academics and other commentators in the field who are currently researching Intentional Communities. The afternoon will include a series of learning circles on a continuation of the theme. The day will conclude with a shared discussion drawn from the separate learning circles and discussion of the day.

They will also be hosting an informal gathering from 6.00 for both delegates and non-delegates as an opportunity to network, form groups and share knowledge. Please give an indication on your booking if you will be attending in order to give them an idea of numbers.

Who should come?
Academics and PHD students
Housing associations
Architects
Planners
Existing and potential community members
Voluntary sector organisations
Community lenders
Anybody interesting in finding out more.

The symposium will be held on Friday 6th July at the Cyncoed Campus, Cardiff Metropolitan University. The campus is accessible via several major bus and train routes and further information on travelling to Cyncoed is available on their website: http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/education/research/Intentional-communities/Pages/default.aspx There is limited on-site parking and car sharing is encouraged.

Places are £70.00* per head which includes all refreshments and a buffet lunch – they are a zero profit, Zero waste event.

To make a find out more, please click below:

www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/intentionalcommunities

*Delegates are also entitled to 10% off any of our short courses on Intentional Communities.