Management Plan

1. Introduction

The plan gives the management and implementation details for the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust's project to regenerate Independent Quarry. The project incorporates a broad range of interests and professional fields, represented in the Consortium Partners and external participants, all united in working to achieve a reconfigured quarry landscape that can serve scientific, cultural and community needs. The project will also pioneer new models for cross-disciplinary approaches to designing and proposing after-use options for quarry environments.

2. Plan Objectives

The objectives given below include the desired objectives for learning across several groups - experts, Higher Education students, schools and the community. All groups begin their involvement in the project through an ongoing Induction process.

The objectives are implemented through the Schedule of Tasks, which are also numbered on the project Timechart.

3. Key Project Events And Strands

3.1. Induction

An ongoing programme for all participants.

3.2. Programme Of Quarry Walks

Visiting academics and professional experts in fields of architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, geology, geomorphology, community development and the arts.

3.3. Exhibition & Displays

An ongoing cumulative exhibition in the Drill Hall, providing induction information and recording project thinking. Includes digitised quarry projection and 3D model.

3.4. Student / Research Programme

College / university residencies that participate with the other project strands.

3.5. Creative Design Workshops

Intensive ongoing workshops on four themes. The centrepiece for development of quarry regeneration

3.6. Landscape & Art Network Seminar

Drawing on LAN member's knowledge and experience of arts and regeneration issues and applying this expertise to the quarry context.

3.7. National Architecture Week Exhibiton

Initiative by the University of West of England (UWE) - presenting environmental and landscape issues from an architectural perspective.

3.8. Schools Workshops With PSQT & UOB

To design stone labyrinth / maze - a themed pilot project that will evolve with time, allowing for additions of features originating in community and educational after-use programmes for Independent. The broader context of the quarry will provide opportunities for cross-disciplinary programmes.

3.9. Natural Stone Show 2004. Excel Docklands

Documentation of the project will be shown on the PSQT stand at this three-day stone industry show. A dissemination method of promoting this new and innovative approach to quarry regeneration to a wider national and international audience.

All of these project strands contribute towards the creation of a master plan for Independent Quarry with subsequent, publications, exhibitions and Seminar to disseminate the findings.

4. Managing The Project

Responsibility for the day-to-day planning and management of the whole project lies with Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust who will also provide a Project Manager to act as the project's central point of contact and co-ordination.

Overseeing the Trust and the Project Manager are two bodies:

The Consortium, with all partners having distinct responsibilities, as summarised on the Consortium Roles & Responsibilities Diagram;
PSQT's Board of Directors, who are legally accountable for all of the Trust's work

Project activity will therefore be monitored and controlled via the monthly meetings of the Consortium throughout the project period, and ultimately by the Trust's own Board at their regular meetings. MIRO will monitor the progress of the project through receiving written reports and attendance at quarterly meetings of the Consortium.

1. PSQT Management Objectives

Tasks

Recruit Project Manager
Obtain ASQ Land Survey and AUTOCAD Plans for restoration scheme (basic landform)
Commission model of Independent Quarry
Purchase Equipment and consumable materials
Convene Consortium Meetings
Conceive and implement marketing & PR for whole project
Co-ordinate programme of School, University and College visits
Financial management of all project strands
Management of Design Workshops
Design Landscape & Art Network Seminar Programme
Convene and manage LAN Seminar
Organise Projection of digitised images of Independent Quarry at present
Assemble Briefing Packs for all participants
Build and Co-ordinate cumulative exhibition and displays in Drill Hall
Administer Walks & Talks programme
Deliver walks and talks
Deliver lectures
Present National Architecture Week exhibition
Update and redesign website
Text collation and editing for website
Visual recording of project using digital photography
Print Production for all strands
Writing brief for landscape architect/structural engineer/artists
Liaison with Albion Stone regarding works in Independent Quarry
Application for Planning Consents
Mapping of changing quarry landscape
Design and convene 2004 follow-up seminar
Monitoring and evaluation of whole project
Mount Natural Stone Show exhibition
Project Documentation and final MIST report

1.1. to achieve a masterplan for reconfiguring the landscape of Independent Quarry. The masterplan builds additionally upon Albion Stone Quarries Ltd plans for the restoration of Independent post closure.

1.2. To act as a focal point for the project, co-ordinating distinct strands and to ensure that roles and responsibilities are fulfilled.

1.3. to oversee the work of the Project Manager, to ensure that project tasks and deadlines are met and to prepare reports for monthly Consortium meetings.

1.4. monitor the progress of the restoration scheme in relation to the involvement of the community and the wider context of the World Heritage Coast.

1.5. develop new models of good practice in education, linking the arts, design and earth sciences, contributing to sustainable educational after-use programmes for Independent Quarry.

2. Learning Objectives

As a result of the project participants will be able:

Induction

2.1. to describe the industrial, built and ecological factors contributing to the regeneration of contrasting quarry environments through both natural and planned means.

2.2. to assess factors contributing to the regeneration and after use of quarry environments.

2.3. to re-apply such factors in resolving design issues within Independent Quarry in an innovative way.

2.4. use a range mapping techniques (written / drawn / audio - visual / sound) to record observations and communicate them to others.

3. Design Workshops

3.1. to engage community participation in the development of after-use programmes for community, leisure and educational use

3.2. contribute to developing a new cross-disciplinary model for quarry regeneration, exchanging skills and knowledge between disciplines and local expertise.

3.3. apply different approaches to the design of additional landforms and features within Independent Quarry, recognising opportunities for appropriate colonisation by flora and fauna.

3.4. to identify, visualise and communicate ideas through sketches, annotated drawings and three dimensional model making techniques using mixed media.

4. Student Research Programme

Participants in visiting college and university groups will be able to:

4.1. make use of expertise in arts and earth sciences on the project and use as means of investigating and interpreting the quarry landscape.

4.2. explore and identify potential / opportunities for creative development and design, responding to the qualities of materials on site and by-products of the stone industry.

4.3. assimilate qualities of the quarry environment into work produced; scale, mass, volume, weight, balance, sound and light, for example.

4.4. describe changes in quarrying technology and the effect on the appearance of contrasting quarry environments / landscapes.

4.5. use a variety of mapping techniques to record the geological features and contrasting geological composition of the quarry environment.

5. Schools

(staff)

5.1. Identify and develop cross-curricula programmes of study in collaboration with artists, prioritising themes for delivery in National Curriculum and external examination level study.

5.2. contribute to after-use programmes for Independent Quarry, as a local resource for education and creative use, earth science study and environmental monitoring.

5.3. produce teaching resources using appropriate means and technology, that can be reapplied across a range of age groups and ability ranges, and for use in INSET training programmes.

(students)

5.4. to achieve a sense of ownership in the design of features and after-use programmes for Independent Quarry.

5.5. to understand the potential of the quarry environment to act as a source for creative learning.

5.6. to contribute ideas through creative design workshops to the regeneration scheme and have exposure to the different approaches of professionals within the Consortium and external experts.

5.7. to understand contrasting quarry environments and how they have been created.

5.8. to appreciate how changes in the use of technology, quarrying methods and different approaches to regeneration may affect the visual and aesthetic qualities of the landscape.

6. Community

6.1. to fully understand new approaches to quarry regeneration, contributing local expertise and ideas for features and after-use programmes for community, leisure and educational use, through participating with professional expertise and education departments, working across disciplines.

6.2. to participate and contribute in a meaningful way to the development of a master-plan and longer term programmes for Independent Quarry.

6.3. experience the quarry environment first hand through walks and talks and through participation in design workshops and discussion be able to communicate ideas in a variety of forms, relating to the design and after-use of the quarry landscape.