ABSTRACT
Although the Scottish project (Chapter 11) has since grown into real buildings, it was initially an experiment into developing a new method of place-study and design. I'd learnt a lot, but didn't quite know how to apply it to a ‘real' situation. The main thing I'd learnt was confidence in consensual design. I'd practiced this for years, but never before with such formal intention. When, therefore, in 1992 I was invited to design an ecological ‘village' – actually a plot of land on the edge of an expanding city – I said I wouldn't design it, but work with the group to design it together.
