I'm going to start a KYP image of the week blog because we are getting some lovely pictures at the moment.

This is my favourite from last week by Freda Brown of Hillfields …

Since joining twitter I have seen a few useful links and use of social media in neighbourhood planning.

See http://holbeachplan.org/ where, like Old Market, the community have opted for a realistic, scaled down approach even though they had funding for a full neighbourhood plan.

And there generally seems to be a growing online community who are trying to tackle the issues of localism. See …

We have just completed the Downs 150 oral history project in partnership with Wildman and Herring Ltd.

The project was commissioned by Bristol City Council and funded by the Heritage Lottery with the aim of recording information about how the Downs have contributed to the City since the space was protected by Act of Parliament 150 years ago.

Our work involved using a series of oral histories collected by Tot Foster in 2011 for classroom resources. We took classes from Burnbush…

Yesterday I attended a workshop in Birmingham that explored new ways to involve communities in heritage and localism. There was a strong focus on social media tools and Design Bristol was heralded as an exemplar approach.

#histenviron was used throughout the day in tweets to demonstrate how twitter can create a buzz around a project to reach new audiences and encourage wider conversations.

Also an audioboo channel was created for the day…

A local community garden project is taking place at Strawberry Square Bridge learning Campus this weekend. They are looking for local community volunteers on Saturday 21^st and Sunday 22^nd from 10.30am.

An added bonus is that the BBC are supporting and filming the event for a programme to be shown over the summer.…

I am Bristol based and have recently started up a blog - Landscapism - as a forum to discuss, promote and bring together landscape related themes, subject matter and marginalia of all kinds.

Posts that may be of…

A different perspective on what Bristol, or any other city would be like if it was a green capital?

Not really about being a smelly city - more a change of smells from petrol fumes and vehicel exhausts.

Stephen

Sanitary City vs. Sustainable City - Who Wins, Who Loses?

An interesting blog piece about how landscape architects work and rethink urban green space: New Revolutionaries?

Ask an Architect Event. 

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th April at The Architecture Centre, Bristol. 

Need some advice on your Grand Design or small extension. 

The Bristol Society of Architects have arranged an…