Investigative design
& construction.
Building;
infrastructure,
systems,
networks,
knowledge,
skills,
community
& culture
Social Designs CIC is a community of practice based in Cornwall aggregating local talent, tools and contextually relevant templates for the future to make positive contributions to our time and place.
We primarily work in and around the built environment on initiatives often extending into land-use models and agriculture - pursuing research agendas through live projects spread across an architectural design studio, construction team (trading as Social Constructs), education and engagement programmes.
Principles/values… bioregionalism/localism, materiality, craft, identity, of a place (economies of place?)
Not-for-profit; commissioned work enables/funds pro-bono/ community projects at no cost to the ‘client’.
Architecture
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Construction
research themes
natural materials
Engagement Programmes & Events
Community engagement,
Participatory design and research
→ Loveland Community Farm / Falmouth Food Coop
Penryn, Cornwall
Community consultations: Penryn Town Fair, community picnic, community feasts, brief building for a multi-purpose community building
Art & Ecology: ‘Exploring the Underworld’
Co-design events: Site planning and community-led land management, architectural design workshop for new community building
Material salvage for new community building with ReCollective
Business/coop development workshop: integrating a new community building with Falmouth Food Coop’s business strategy
→ Goonown Growers Eco-Barn
St Agnes, Cornwall
Community consultations: brief building for a multi-purpose eco-barn, community feasts and farm tours
Co-design events: architectural design for a new eco-barn
Eco-barn Crowdfunder: media and launch events
Integrated Eduction: Construction skills training for Goonown staff and volunteers, and women and girls new to construction
→ Assembly Space: Towards a Bioregional Construction Industry
Cornwall, Devon, South-West UK
Resources for Construction, Mapping Workshops with: Falmouth University staff- student groups , public and practitioners, Plymouth University student groups, Arts University Plymouth student groups
Focus Group Workshops: Stakeholders in local timber value chain, stakeholders in local stone value chain
Research Intensives: Exeter University MsC Sustainable Business Management - Research in Practice
→ Sustainable Food Cornwall - Food Summit
Cornwall
Community and Business Consultations: Defining Cornwall’s ‘Sustainable Food Charter’
Co-design events: Partnership strategy with Simon Platten / Good Food Loop, Food charter workshops on; health, economy, ecology,
Conference / Summit: First ‘sustainable food’ summit - coordinating panels, workshops, presentations
Skills & Making Programmes
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Research
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Past Consultancy
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→ Falmouth Food Coop - Coop Development Strategy | Falmouth | 2019
→ Falmouth Food Coop - Coop Development Strategy | Falmouth | 2019
→ Rewilding Roscollas | Falmouth | 2019
→ Sustainable Food Cornwall Project Delivery | Falmouth | 2019
→ Sustainable Food Cornwall - Sustainable Food Charter | Falmouth | 2019
→ Innovation Nursery | Falmouth | 2019
→ Allotment Club Artist Residencies
→ Unltd* - Elderly Life in Multi-Generational Cohousing Environments
Public Appearances, Facilitation
&Academic Roles
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→ Bocconoc House Charity Banquet: Food for Thought
→ Cornwall Climate Care
→ CIVIC SQUARE: Re:Assemble
→ Eden Project - Anthropy:
→ Eden Project - Anthropy:
→ Exeter Univeristy business innovation thing?
→ SFC w/ Simon Platten
→ Exeter University - (Industry Partner) MRES Novel Crops in Cornwall
Want to learn how to build with hemp lime?
The next in our series of popular hemp-lime workshops is coming up on February 22nd in St Agnes, Cornwall. You’ll learn how to conceptualise, design and build your own prototype with our experienced workshop leaders.
