Culture Engagement and Consultation
Education is most effective when driven by learners themselves. The local authority and schools should consider how they will engage young people with the BSF process and build their thinking and needs into the strategy.
It is strongly recommended that everyone involved should be engaged in the BSF process, this includes pupils, (and future pupils from feeder primary schools), teachers, cultural professionals and non teaching staff, parents, governors, current and potential community groups and individuals. Key partners and stakeholders will need to be consulted at relevant stages during the programme to ensure a strategic and joined up approach.
Cultural organisations make excellent partners when engaging learners, teachers and communities in the BSF process. Their use of innovative and creative approaches to consultation with stakeholders creates a shared ownership of the BSF process, creating co-constructed plans for educational design and delivery.
The Architecture Centre Network is the development and advocacy organisation for the 23 Architecture Centres in the United Kingdom.
Architecture Centres actively promote and facilitate public involvement and engagement in the design of quality places and spaces at a local, regional and national level, in formal and informal settings. They have local, sub regional and regional remits in the UK and local knowledge, understanding and established relationships and partnerships.
This document details the services and support that they can offer to the BSF process.