Charting Participatory Action and Interventionist Research Processes for Community-Based Stakeholders in Peri-Urban Contexts: The Proposed St. Cuthbert’s Community Centre, Lorne, Australia

摘要: Participatory action combined interventionist research approaches can offer possibilities for community-based facilities and institutions attempting to re-engage with their communities assert presence. St. Cuthbert’s Church is a heritage-listed property, located on major landholding, right in the heart of summer tourist town Lorne, Melbourne’s peri-urban ‘sea change’ fringe. Its sloping hillside vantage offers spectacular views beach Bass Strait, beyond. The congregation, however, aging, while broader community increasingly secular. In response these circumstances, looking its relevance procurement centre be erected property. Using an approach, professional facilitator ‘participatory design’, it was found that both residents visitors Lorne were favourably disposed idea centre, also clear locus power needed realise this objective lay outside congregation’s control. A conclusion organisations may have pro-actively engage marketing prepare business plans, as well substantial political lobbying within external Church, if project progress succeed.