Community Led Design
Enhancing creative engagement in community-led design
In this strand we seek to understand how media can support and add value to community-led design projects. These are where local people come together to redesign spaces and services in their neighbourhood, such as opening up an old building as a community hub, creating a neighbourhood plan or providing new activities. This approach is increasingly being adopted as a means of ensuring that new buildings and other products reflect the needs, creativity and aspirations of the people who use them. Social media and web tools may offer new opportunities for community-led design and the ways in which citizens take part in the process, make their stamp or reach an audience that is more representative of the community.
Latest Posts from Community-Led Design
July 12th, 2013 by Katerina Alexiou in Community-led Design | no comments
Creative Citizens joined forces with NESTA Scotland to commission a film for the AHRC Connected Communities Showcase event in Edinburgh on 4 July 2013. The film, led by NESTA Scotland, showcases the Make It Local programme and depicts the advantages of using open data to offer community services. It focuses on 2 local authority partners [...]
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March 5th, 2013 by Scott Dewey in Community-led Design Creative Networks Hyperlocal | no comments
As part of our participation in the Connected Communities showcase event on March 12th 2013, the Creative Citizens project received funding to make a series of short films about the communities we are working with. With just over a month to create five films, former BBC journalist and producer Tony O’Shaughnessey, whose credits include current affairs programme Week In Week Out, was brought in to make the films. I would be assisting Tony with all aspects of the film.
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March 1st, 2013 by Katerina Alexiou in Community-led Design | no comments
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 post for the blog of our community partner The Glass-House Community Led Design, introducing a new social [...]
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