Projects
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Creative Makerspaces
This project seeks to develop a novel and inclusive means of fostering creative citizens in China through strategic use of co-design and public makerspaces.
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Empowering Design Practices
This live project is exploring how community-led design can help empower those who look after historic places of worship to create more open, vibrant and sustainable places.
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Prototyping Utopias
The Prototyping Utopias project created ‘spaces for dreaming’ for local people and organisations in Bow, East London, to share their visions and ideals for a utopian place.
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Bridging the Gap
A project that explored the relationship between academic researchers and the communities in which they work.
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Scaling up impact and reach through co-design
A project which looked at how co-design practices could extend the reach and impact of the work of civil society organisations.
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Unearth Hidden Assets through Community Co-Design and Co-Production
A collaborative research project with academics, practitioners and communities looking at how creative and collaborative activities could unlock potential in people and places.
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Scaling up design champions
This 'cross-pollination' project set out to empower new design champions by supporting young people and those with 'silent' voices through media and place.
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Unearth Hidden Assets: Tidworth Mums
Working with the Open University and local partners, we helped Tidworth Mums to uncover and mobilise their assets, and build the case for soft play in their area.
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Scaling up design education
Part of the Scaling up co-design project, we ran a workshop with Master of Design students at Brunel University to get students thinking about place in the context of their own design practice.
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Media, Community and the Creative Citizen
This three-year, collaborative research project set out the explore how creative citizenship can bring value to communities and how these efforts can be enhanced or sustained in a changing media landscape.