Community

The community was in effect the collaboration i.e. between teachers and pupils in the project BSF schools, between the school representatives and the University and between the school designers and users.  It could therefore be interpreted as the stakeholders in a process with a specific aim – the creation of a sustainable school.  This involved the contribution of the school users but necessitated engagement with the university to operate as science ambassadors and raise the level of sustainability literacy so that it could be incorporated into discussions with the designers.  PhD researchers and lecturers from the university ‘underwent’ training in the ‘workings’ of a secondary school and possible ways to communicate with students of that age.  The project ‘community’ could therefore also be interpreted as the ‘shared learning’ between the participant groups; while this was fundamentally different between specific groups e.g. designers and users; university and school, collectively each relationship contributed to the pursuit of the single core aim.