At the end of October we ran a three day cross-disciplinary project with students from across the RCA on the Creative Citizen project. This was part of the college’s AcrossRCA programme, one week devoted to cross-disciplinary working. Twenty students…
As part of ‘Creative Citizens’, the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, together with the Open University, are researching community projects where local people are creating new spaces or services for their neighbourhood. We’re calling this ‘Community-led…
The ideas and practice of community-led design, participatory design or co-design have a long-standing tradition, especially in the context of urban design, planning and architecture. Over the last 50 years, community-led design has influenced the practice of design and planning…
In one week’s time, a street in Battersea will celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at a party that my neighbour and I instigated. Last year, the two of us organised a street picnic at a few days’ notice. We made…
One of our project partners, The Glass House, has published a response to the Government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Below is Glass House Chief Executive Sophia de Sousa’s reponse (cross-posted from their website) written shortly after the framework was…
