Part of the aims of our research is to understand community-led design as a creative citizenship activity but also to enable communities to connect and to support each other through various forms of media.

We recently wrote a for the blog of our community partner The Glass-House Community Led Design, introducing a new social network site that the OU designed in collaboration with the Glass-House and through focus groups with a number of different communities.

 

We hope that the site () will be a vehicle for capturing and expressing the value of community-led design as this is perceived by the very people who take part in it. We also hope that it will provide a forum for exchanging experiences and learning which can be carried over into future projects.

The stories and the relationships developed through the site can provide a rich source of data for our Creative Citizen project, allowing us to make observations about community-led design at a larger scale, beyond the case studies we carry out with our selected communities.