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40 volunteers from both communities were divided in groups of two to three people both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and were assigned specific areas of the city to survey. They were given printed maps of the city in A3 format on which they documented the existing buildings, their use and their height. The GC volunteers were going to Famagusta every morning by bus and returning back in the evening. Due to the inaccessibility of the fenced off part of the city, satellite images were used by the team to update the maps and have them ready for digitilization.

The summer workshop stage 1 had a double gain. Firstly, to document the actual condition of the city and prepare the data for digitilization creating in fact the only up to date document of the city of Famagusta. The second gain was the creation of a temporal community between the TC and GC young volunteers and the encouragement by the project for further bonding to take place between them.