By Anne Corlin, Aislinn McCarthy & Evelyn Ågren

Despite good intentions, community spaces in social housing often suffer from poor placement, limited visibility, and a lack of resident ownership.

How to Build an Apple Pie reflects on the development of community-building initiatives and the possibilities for supporting resident-driven activities through participatory architectural intervention. Analyses, essays, and interviews are interwoven with fieldwork to develop a methodology for reciprocal design – one that uses objects as props for interaction and discussion.