Dr Richard Ayers talked us through his research and observations as a practicing GP in Adelaide Street Surgery, Stonehouse, the most deprived ward in the city.
Richard shared insights into the inverse care law, a policy that restricts care in relation to need; this has resulted in areas such as Stonehouse having a stark mismatch between need and resource with insufficient time to truly manage patient problems – something outlined in the Deep End analogy/ project. In response to the above, Adelaide Street Surgery now runs outreach services to the homeless in the city.
Hannah Sloggett lives in Stonehouse and has volunteered in the community for over ten years. With a background in community engagement and regeneration, Hannah co-founded Nudge Community Builders, a group of local people that grow and build their community through incremental ‘nudges’.
Hannah shared a wide range of projects that began with a street party that has grown into creating several direct and immediate spaces of support and services for local people. Over time, Nudge Community Builders has regenerated Union Corner, the Clipper, accommodation for single parents, a community Café, the Plot, the Millennium building, and a recurring street market.
Dr Allister Gall shared his socially engaged community film practices, which have most recently been centred in Stonehouse. The project engages local people as participant filmmakers and elevates their voices through filmmaking workshops, screenings and performances in a shared screening environment.
Roger Pipe of the Millfields Trust and Professor Robert Brown discussed community engaged design and the development of a community hub in Stonehouse. Through joined up thinking and on-going dialogue, projects undertaken by the Master of Architecture student’s research are revealing the long-term impact of climate change on the built environment of Stonehouse.
A particular focus being rising sea levels prompting a need for long term planning in today’s propositions. A range of projects between the Master of Architecture students and BA Architecture Year 1 students have embedded local narratives, at various scales, into a range of proposals from an outdoor learning environment for local school to the regeneration of wider urban areas.