You opened a community space. A handful of people post, and most of the posts are yours.
A forum with no structure stays quiet. Without roles, rhythm and recognition, belonging is left to chance, and in the designer’s words that «excludes the people who need it most».
What it does
The Community Architecture Designer asks about five elements: shared purpose, roles and contribution, rituals and rhythm, the path from outsider to insider, and recognition. It scores each out of 10, maps the five as a path, quotes your strongest element back to you and ranks three moves.
No one becomes an artist alone. They become an artist when other artists see them as one of us.
The Cinematic Curriculum Method, Chapter 17, The Learner’s Arc
What you’ll do
Write how each of the five elements is built in your community.
Press «Design the community».
Work through the three moves and design again.
What you get. A community-design score out of 100 with a verdict, the five elements mapped as a path, your strongest element quoted back, and three priority moves. The report downloads as a one-page PDF.
Before and after
BeforeAs it opens: five elements, each with its own question.AfterThe app’s own worked example, run: a score of 78, «A strong community», and the five elements mapped as a path.
Watch it work
1 / 6Open The Community Architecture Designer. Five elements, each with its own question.
How to use it
Open The Community Architecture Designer from My tools.
Under «The Architecture», answer the question for each of the five elements. Watch the word count and the flags under each answer. «Load Worked Example» shows a finished set.
Press «Design the community».
Read the score, the verdict, the path and what the analysis noticed.
Work through the three priority moves, strengthen the weakest answers and run it again.