do it yourself

One page per kind of place — a square, a car park, a courtyard, a queue — for getting people who do not know each other into the same place and giving them something to do together.

Pick the kind of place you have. Each sheet says what it takes, what to do in what order, and shows it having worked somewhere else. Then tell us how it went, or do not, and do it anyway.

• a squareStrangers already cross it. What it is short of is a reason to stop.9 steps · 6 things · fed about 60
• a courtyardEverybody who lives above you is already invited, whether you ask them or not.9 steps · 6 things · fed about 35
• a car parkAfter six it belongs to nobody, which is as close to an invitation as a city gets.9 steps · 8 things · fed about 40
• a plot nobody usesFrozen land has no programme, no caretaker and nobody whose job it is to say no.9 steps · 6 things · fed about 80
• a queueFive hundred people already standing together, and all of them pretending not to be.8 steps · 6 things · fed about 500