03/02/2026
Today marked our first session as a group. We started with some icebreaker tasks where we introduced ourselves and our interests within architecture. We then began studying and interpreting our brief before discussing important questions we would later need to ask our collaborator.

Later we started to divide up tasks, with small groups working on either: poster design, blog or project description. Before the end of our session, we shared what we had come up with and any ideas we had within our groups.

03/02/2026

After the first session it was time to meet our collaborator, during the meeting we were able to: get a better sense of what kind of space they wanted us to create, ask and discus any questions we had and orginise a date and time for a site visit.

17/02/2026

Today was our second scheduled meeting. Starting with the poster we discussed the current design and suggested improvements to be made before the submission. We uploaded our project description, completed our first few blog posts and started to talk over our: project timeline, budget, risk assessment and ethics application. Finally we divided up the tasks for the next two weeks.

17/03/2026

For this session, we developed our publication and started our site analysis by delegating aspects of it to a subsection of the group. Simultaneously, other member of the group also developed our design concept with renewed consideration to the site.

30/03/2026

After submitting the ethics application and risk assessment, we organised and carried out a site visit, we invited our collaborator to help us gain a better idea of what he envisioned for the site. We collected photos, measurements, and an overall feel for the site so we could then start visualising possible ideas for the site in context.

20/04/2026

Prior to the 20th of April, we communicated with our collaborator to help us invite a group of writers to our engagement activity. We put together a questionnaire and some MCQs that we intended to give to writers all centered around what they like about the spaces they use already and what they want to see in future spaces.

We then hosted our engagement activity in the MTC and got an insight into the writers' minds who would be the primary users of our space. We provided refreshments while they answered questions with short paragraphs before engaging in conversation with them to hear their ideas.

11/05/2026

On day one of intensive week, we reviewed the notes from our engagement activity and used it to synthesise our initial design ideas to accommodate for the writers’ requirements. We also started the layout for our presentation, reflecting on the collaborative aspects of our MSA live experience.

12/05/2026
On day two of our action week, we began by discussing our current designs and what we needed to prioritise before finalising our design and drawing scaled floor plans. We’ve continued to work on our final presentation and publication, bringing together everything we’ve done so far.

13/05/2026

On day 3 of our action week, we continued working on the final presentation and publication which helped celebrate what we had done so far but also determined what we had left to do. From this we divided up the tasks for individuals to work on during the day with some people working on sections, some on renders and some on how the space functionally works. At the end of the day, we were able to share what we had completed and point out anything that needed to be changed or improved.

14/05/2026

Today marked our final working day of action week, at the beginning of the day we reviewed what we had left to do and began adding finishing touches to our final outputs, presentation and publication. We then spent time reviewing our work, making sure we were prepared for the presentation the next day, we chose who was going to present and began practicing what we would say during the presentation.