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Valuing Community-Led Design Workshop 2

Valuing Community-Led Design Workshop 2
1 May 2013
Orange Room, Moseley Exchange, Birmingham

The final event of the Valuing Community-Led Design project was held in Moseley, Birmingham on the 1st of May 2013.

The aim of the workshop was to disseminate preliminary findings, but also to support networking, exchange of experiences in the area of community-led design and formulate future research directions. The workshop invited multidisciplinary and multistakeholder perspectives, involving academics as well as practitioners, community organisations, community representatives and third sector organisations.

Following a short introduction to the project, its activities and outputs so far, the workshop focussed on group activities helping collaboratively work through some key questions. The workshop was divided in three parts. The first part focussed on sharing stories, and collecting perspectives about the value of community-led design and ways to capture it, adding to the experiences and knowledge developed in previous project activities (workshops and focus groups). The second part was dedicated specifically to the question of mapping barriers and opportunities of community-led design. The third part was dedicated to the development of a future research agenda and ideas for collaborative projects.

Download the workshop agenda.
Download the list of participants.

Three posters with information about core outputs from the project were also exhibited, click below to download them:
vcld_value_poster_final.pdf
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vcld_asset_mapping_poster_final.pdf
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vcld_cde_poster_final.pdf
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Workshop activities and outputs
  • Workshop 1: sharing experiences
Participants were divided in 3 groups and used some specially designed cards to introduce themselves, their practice and relationship with community-led design and help collaboratively unearth key dimensions and perceptions of value.

The flipcharts created are shown below (click on the images to enlarge).
  • Workshop 2: barriers and opportunities
Participants were divided in 3 groups to collaboratively map barriers of community-led design they have encountered in their practice and identify solutions and opportunities.

The flipcharts created are shown below (click on the images to enlarge).
  • Workshop 3: future research directions
Participants were divided in 3 groups to develop rough sketches of potential research projects, considering details about research objectives, context, projects partners as well as cost and timescales.

The main areas for development identified were around understanding asset transfer practices, the potentials and limitations of neighourhood planning, rethinking design practice, working on method replication, and understanding the effect of community-led design processes on the life of buildings, on people’s wellbeing, safety and crime, and on fighting isolation. 

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