Heathrow Airport giving away defibrillators to local community
Heathrow Airport is giving away defibrillators to local community groups, charities and small organisations around the airport. The life-saving devices are looking for a new home and are free of charge to any local community group that could benefit from one in the neighbouring area. The airport has recently updated all the devices in its terminals and, after thorough testing, wants to make sure the previous models which have plenty life in them go to good use. To register an interest, groups are asked to email [email protected] by Monday 12th December. #lhr #heathrow, #heathrowairport #airport #giveway #givingaway #defibrillators #defibrillator #lifesaving #localcommunity #communitygroup #communitygroups #charities #charity #smallorganisation #smallorganisations
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CO-CREATION in SPACE MAKING in rural Bangladesh
The following researcher’s notes are based on CAN open source article "Why should a city be CO-CREATED?” and Ar. Khandakar Hasibul Kabir’s lecture as Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel in 2018. Both sources are below:
Aim of this study: to find community-led practices in Bangladesh
LOCATION: Jhenaidah is a low-lying mid scale city in the southwestern part of Bangladesh, close to the Bay of Bengal. It has a population of about 250,000 people living on 44.33 km2 land. The river running through the city is an important resource to support its everyday life and is site for many of its socio-cultural identity. Due to unplanned drainage system of the city, the river is subject to pollution and encroachments.
COMMUNITY GROUPS: The authors note that the real zest of the place lies within its 80 communities who may be of low income but are full of desires and eagerness to rethink their living conditions and well-being of their city. To solve their problems citizens from all walks of life and backgrounds have formed into groups resulting into the Jhenaidah citywide people’s network. The politically neutral network is based on communal trust, solidarity and with a strong desire to improve their conditions.
Source: Facebook page of POCAA
METHODS: In rural areas of Bangladesh women and children are often not part of any decision-making processes. In contrast to this, the Jhenaidah citywide people’s network not only involves equal participation of people of all gender, age and ability but also actively engages women, children and elderly into the process extensively. The community relies on collective decision making processes and co-designs through collaboration and empowerment of all participants.
PROCESS: 3 Steps
Saving money together - own money + loan from their own cooperatives
Mapping/planning together - Community architects engage from this stage as facilitators
Building together
Source: Facebook page of POCAA
COMMUNITY ARCHITECT’S INVOLVEMENT: The initiatives were taken by the community and coordinated by the community architects. It is unclear how the architects were invited into the process but possibly it helped because the architects were locals. They placed themselves in the situation asking the questions what can we do and where do we fit in?
According to CAN open access article, they started connecting and sharing beliefs with local authorities, facilitators and collaborators, and like minded people. They appropriated their skills and roles through direct action with low-income communities through small-scale work.
Source: Community Architects’ Network, 2019
Other parallel engagements varied from local school children building small-scale eco gardens, educational groups, local governments, NGOs and young professionals. Government authorities often complain that people make their jobs harder as it is hard for them to trust the people. Linking all practices through a platform of co-creation it grew interest for people like policymakers who often are harder to reach. Gradually the city managers and its inhabitants connected with each other and over wider networks. In 2019, Jhenaidah city hosted the CAN Co-create city workshop which focused on listening to the local people, valuing their opinions and aspirations as well as actions to rethink the city.
Source: Community Architects’ Network, 2019
OUTCOMES
* Governance model of the community is not very well documented. However, according to the community architects lecture in Basel in 2018, the community initiated, developed and built the houses by themselves with coordination and support from the Co.Creation Architects who acted as facilitators and were also locals. The process later attracted the local authorities and the Mayor who according to the architects in many ways helped the process by “by-passing or changing or bending” rules or restrictions.
* The community now has collated data about their community. They have even mapped themselves on GIS, turning them from invisible settlement, where the municipality didn’t feel the need to visit because of being low income, into a prominently located visible settlement.
* The community now is the expert who share with communities from other cities and policymakers how they did it.
* The community architects are not needed in the process anymore as the community has trained itself enough to be able to navigate through the process on their own and also disseminate the experience to others.
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