Consultation day 04.04.09

A family consultation event was organised between the school and Birmingham City Council as part of a research programme and to assist the students in the Birmingham House project. The participants  were selected to reflect the diverse residents of Birmingham including an ethnic minority family, same sex couple and an elderly couple.

There were 4 main task during the day to get the participants involved in discussing their issues with their current residence and neighbourhood:

SESSION 1

To determine the daily/weekly patterns of different household members of the existing home.

Time: 60 mins 

SESSION 2

To determine what changes need to be made to the existing home to better suit the family needs. Discuss the ideal home and to prioritise the spaces of most importance to the family.

Time: 40 mins

SESSION 3

Consider how the house should adapt to the family life cycle and discuss what changes are likely to happen in the home in 15 years time. How should a family house change to suit this?

Time 50 mins

SESSION 4

To consider the ideals of a city ccentre neighbourhood and the attitudes towards diversity and sense of community.

Time: 30 mins

View some of the output the participants created here

All the information is to be collated and distributed to our students to inform the next part of the project where they select a client to design the ideal Birmingham House.