On day 5 we cut out all the pieces of the puzzle from MDF. We found the MDF boards from the leftovers in the workshop. However we wanted to make the pieces look neat and elegant, so we decided to cover the pieces in plywood. We had to cut the pieces again from plywood and stick them on top of the MDF. Then we sanded them together, so that both looked unified. Painting the shapes was left for the next day.

Day 3-4: We spent the days brainstorming ideas of how to represent what we found out in the best way possible. We went through ideas of collages, drawings, paintings and finally decided to build a model. Our idea was to create something artistic, with a metaphorical meaning, but still connected to the reality of what we saw. We finally decided to make a 3d puzzle, where every piece would be stained differently. The puzzle would be inspired by a map of the researched area, where every piece was set to be a different community. A piece which wont fit would be the area where the council intervened. At the end of day 4 we had it all planned out, the pieces cut out from paper, and we were prepared to begin building the actual object.

Day 2. We decided to get in touch with New Islington, and spent the day roaming around the area trying to get a feel for what it was like, and what it has become. There were new houses built, but huge parts of the area, where houses were demolished, were left untouched ever since. It was obvious the council was trying to replace the old housing with new, modern constructions which are a lot more expensive. Back in 2003 the community was demolished. Furthermore the boundaries of New Islington were changed, in order for the council to be able to "free" a bigger area for the new constructions to take place. According to a lady we met on site, the local hospital was brought down, as well as many pubic gathering places which were in the area. The community was disassembled and people fled to many different parts of Manchester, while some even left the city. To my eyes the future plans for the area were also quiet ineffective. The feeling of loneliness was a great factor to my eyes while walking around New Islington. From what we observed, experienced and understood I would say it was a poorly executed CPO, which seemed to have washed away an otherwise stable community

On the first day in event Adverse Space we were devided into 3 groups. We were asked to chose an area in Manchester which has been CPO'd and research on it. Throughout our project we have to acknowledge the affect of the given CPO on the community, the affect on the area, and its architectural aspects and value either lost or gained in the city context as well as any other useful info we could find which would shed light on the aftermath of the CPO done and whether it had an overall positive or negative affect. We went to Manchester Central Library, where we did some research and chose New Islington,development which is a currently ongoing CPO programme, and has been for more then ten years. I didn't really know what to expect, but it seemed interesting to me, to see how the area was affected, what processes led to the CPO, the reasons behind it and why it seems, most of the planned building were not even started.