We specialise in participatory design, in architecture but also outside of it, facilitating broader engagement through systems design, network building, environmental campaigns and business consultancy.
We view participatory processes as micro-political environments, where we can build the ‘soft’ architecture of community, improve public trust through inclusive decision making and imbue built outputs with the identity of people involved and reflect back at them a story of their collective agency.
→ 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
→ 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
→ Sustainable Food Cornwall
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
→ Goonown Growers Community Building
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
