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What is Your PLace Our Place?

Your Place Our Place is an urban room and one of the first pilots of the CCQoL project. It involves community consultation through activities at an Urban Room and a digital mapping tool.

What is an Urban Room?

Urban rooms are spaces in towns and cities which offer local communities a place to exhibit and discuss issues that affect the community around future development. This Urban Room in Broad Street Mall are providing information to the local community about key issues such as the Reading Town Centre Strategy, offering a place for discussion to encourage awareness and connection between various communities.

The activities in the Urban Room are based on the weekly topic decided from our analysis of the Quality of Life framework and the Reading Town Centre Strategy by the local council. Quality of Life framework is a set of principles established by the Quality of Life Foundation.

Once this pilot is completed at Reading, similar 3 Urban Rooms will be tested in Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Belfast.

The urban room in Reading is from 1 March to 31 March .

Location: Ground floor, Broad Street Mall, Oxford Road, RG7 1QE

Operational hour: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday 12 pm to 5pm

There are various talks, workshops, open consultations and drop-ins for Reading community to participate in.

Weekly topic:

Week 1: Tuesday 1 March – Saturday 5 March

Welcome and introduction, and business community

Week 2: Tuesday 8 March – 12 March

Health and wellbeing

Week 3: Tuesday 15 March – 19 March

Culture and heritage

Week 4: Tuesday 22 March – 26 March

Climate change

Week 5: Tuesday 29 March – 31 March

Future of Reading - celebration and close – summary of all the weeks and what we have done, what’s next.

For more information, please visit: http://ccqol.org/

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Contact Nisa: u.k.nisa@reading.ac.uk