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=== //IDEAS// for the future of Wards Corner 000 ===

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An invitation to be part of building an inclusive community
This is not a conventional architectural competition, because this is not a conventional challenge. We invite you to be part of an adventure in urban design, based on new methods of community engagement and culturally relevant design, with an ethic of social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Perhaps this sounds all too familiar – but this brief comes out of much more than community rhetoric. The Wards Corner Community Coalition (WCC) is an organised grassroots movement which has been working for over 3 years to resist a development that stands to destroy many communities in Tottenham. The WCC has recently won a significant legal victory for equalities and human rights (specifically in their application to urban planning). This has opened up the space and time to consider again the future of this important site in Haringey, North London. Interested? Then read on and find out more about the WCC campaign, our ambitions, and how to participate .

More about the WCC

//IDEAS// for the future of Wards Corner
 Throughout its campaign, the WCC has sought the views of local people from all walks of life about what they want to see happening at Wards Corner. We have undertaken workshops with architects interested in community-led design; we have asked architects to develop outline schemes of land usage; we have consulted traders about how they want to use their space in the future – about their hopes and dreams. But there is still a lot we need to do before we can claim to have done the ‘consultation’ that Haringey Council and Grainger failed to do. We want to pull together the ideas generated so far and those from the IDEAS project into  an exhibition and display for local people and local public authorities to consider.

 We hope that ‘//IDEAS// for the future of Wards Corner’ will bring about debate locally, regionally and nationally about alternative approaches to community-led planning and urban change. It is meant to be fun at the same time as bringing awareness of what is unique and what is of universal interest in the struggle for the future of Wards Corner.

The culmination of //IDEAS// and the next step: the participatory, multi-disciplinary design phase
 Architects, designers and planners contributing to //IDEAS// will be helping to lay the foundation for the second phase of this journey: the design competition, whilst opening the door to potential further collaborations on the future of the site. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have already began to contribute to the formulation of the second phase. In March 2011 we will launch an exhibition to display all the //IDEAS// – whether they are drawings, poems, songs, statements, essays, simple words – in order to celebrate all the contributions.

 We will work with our local community to highlight particularly popular or inspiring submissions which will be awarded People’s Prizes. We will display the exhibition both locally in South Tottenham and in a venue in central London.

 This accumulation of inspirations we hope to find within //IDEAS// Phase One will influence and shape Phase Two (April–September 2011). We will then invite multi-disciplinary groups – urban design and planning practitioners, progressive economists and sustainability experts – to collaborate together and with the WCC through a design competition. We will be looking for innovative people who can work with the WCC and the local community, and design a process to realise the aspirations and dreams emerging from IDEAS.

= Taking part =

Taking part in ‘IDEAS for the future of Wards Corner’
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> This is a call for design, look and atmosphere ideas for the site from anyone with an interest. We will be asking similar questions (through various forms of communication) of local residents, schoolchildren, interest groups, business-people, local politicians – and designers, planners, architects and urban theorists. We suggest you think about the following questions, but this is just a starting point. You may feel you want to ask different questions to create different ideas about change, form, use, ‘people in place’.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">What could be here? What would you want here?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">What should be preserved and developed to connect the past with the present?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">What could it look like? How could it feel?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">What do you or other people want to be able to do here?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Can we create a real ‘town centre’ here?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">How can we respect and support continuity for people already using this site as traders and residents?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">How can we make this site socially, economically and environmentally sustainable?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">What would make you love to come here?

= Submission details =

Submission details
<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> In addition to this brief, you can find further advice, images and maps at www.wardscornercommunity.org.uk. This contains accounts of earlier consultations as well as current and historic information about Wards Corner.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> You can submit your ideas in any way you want:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Drawings--Designs Models--Written concepts--Poems-Spoken word--Performance--Film--Sound--Other art <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Your submission can be small or large – one idea or thought, or a complex design with spatial and usage dimensions in detail.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Your electronic submissions should be no more than 5 MB.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> More details are available on the website, if you have questions on how to submit your particular //IDEA//.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">To register your interest in ‘//IDEAS// for the future of Wards Corner’, email: wardscornerproject @ gmail.com by 1 January 2011.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Upon registration we will send you further information and details.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">**__The closing date for IDEAS is 31 January 2011__**

= Resources = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">The //IDEAS// brief = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Print version of the IDEAS brief = = =<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Maps = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Scale Maps || Conservation boundaries || Landownership || Site context || Interesting things on Wards Corner || Walkable tour

=<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Earlier Consultations = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Glass House Community-led Regeneration || Public Meeting || Architectural Workshop

=<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Pictures = <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Wards Department Store || Wards Corner Site || Life at Wards Corner

=<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Other useful links =

Alternative Community Plan for Wards Department Store

Presentation 'WHOSE CITY IS IT ANYWAY?' given at THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY FESTIVAL

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> The Campaign Brief <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Conservation Map <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> Land Ownership Map <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">