Valuing Community-Led Design Workshop 1
Valuing Community-Led Design Workshop 1
15 November 2012
Level 3 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall, London
The first event of the Valuing Community-Led Design project was held in London on the 15th of November 2012.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics and practitioners interested in participatory, community-led design in order to exchange experiences and share best practice, but also to explore ways to capture the value of community-led design and its impact. It was interactive and involved group activities.
The first part of the workshop focussed on the question of value and how we can capture it, bringing together insights from different domains. The second part of the day was dedicated to the asset mapping methodology we are developing in collaboration with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Asset mapping for us is key to understanding the potential that individuals and groups have, their skills, their physical assets, but also their cultural and social capital. Mapping and connecting these unused assets is a step towards further development and we believe can lead to more coherent communities and better quality environments. This relates to work we are doing for our Creative Citizen project.
At the workshop we also launched Community Design Exchange, a social network site and visual gallery developed by the Open University in order to collect and disseminate achievements of community-led design.
Download the workshop agenda.
Download the list of participants.
15 November 2012
Level 3 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall, London
The first event of the Valuing Community-Led Design project was held in London on the 15th of November 2012.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics and practitioners interested in participatory, community-led design in order to exchange experiences and share best practice, but also to explore ways to capture the value of community-led design and its impact. It was interactive and involved group activities.
The first part of the workshop focussed on the question of value and how we can capture it, bringing together insights from different domains. The second part of the day was dedicated to the asset mapping methodology we are developing in collaboration with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Asset mapping for us is key to understanding the potential that individuals and groups have, their skills, their physical assets, but also their cultural and social capital. Mapping and connecting these unused assets is a step towards further development and we believe can lead to more coherent communities and better quality environments. This relates to work we are doing for our Creative Citizen project.
At the workshop we also launched Community Design Exchange, a social network site and visual gallery developed by the Open University in order to collect and disseminate achievements of community-led design.
Download the workshop agenda.
Download the list of participants.
Workshop results and outputs
The three posters are shown below (click on the images to enlarge).
- Workshop 1: valuing community-led design
The three posters are shown below (click on the images to enlarge).
- Workshop 2: asset mapping, developing the methodology
Question 1
What do you consider as an asset in a community or neighbourhood?
(What types of assets can you think of?)
Question 2
What processes do you consider useful for identifying and collecting assets?
(What do you think is the best way to go about contacting people, collecting information, bringing people together etc)
Question 3
What tools do you use or consider useful for asset mapping?
(Tools to collect, record and visualise assets / physical and digital materials)
The flipcharts created are shown below (click on the images to enlarge).
Image Gallery