Methodology
We are currently building and testing our methodology through our first test social enterprise, which is about to be piloted on Maiden Lane Estate in the London Borough of Camden. We will be using collaboarative techniques to get buy-in and support from local residents. As we progress we will be posting our progress on this page.
We want to know if you have done or are trying to do similar work so that we can build and evolve this methodology for everyone to use. If you are happy to share your knowledge with the wider community, please post your experiences, methods and tools here and we will publish them.


I am very pleased to find your site!
I am doing an MA in Architecture at the RCA, looking at the role of social enterprise in the built environment. What you say on this site resonates completely with what I am working on:
Recognising that built ‘things’ are necessary, and have the potential to be powerful tools/instruments for the evolution of society…
What value can a lateral-thinking architect bring to a community?
In what manner do we design/build/make things in the knowledge of resources/climate change?
I am interested in Optimism, Dialogue, Interdependency and Trust – how can we use design to build an ‘infrastructure of trust’, uniting councils, business and residents around shared aspirations, using the physical world to give presence and strength to the ideas.
Would be interested to hear more about your work…
Bethany