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community-led placemakingMaking the places we are in the places we want them to be underpins our approach to placemaking. We work in participatory ways to understand what matters to local people and bring skilled expertise alongside them to enable them to be part of making awesome positive changes in their places.
Our process often uses tactical urbanism approaches to test ideas in low-risk ways and empower local people by growing agency. Projects may be small or short term, but, by working this way, they build reslience and regeneration in both communities and systems. |
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Community-led planning and actionLocal communities bring the kind of expertise that no professional can have outside of their own place. Plans and activities that include community members alongside professionals in ways community members can positively contribute to, and even lead, are likely to be more relevant to and welcomed in that community. We work with communities, groups and organisations to help generate clear pathways towards collective intentions, visions and goals.
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Research, Co-design & Co-developmentNothing happens that wasn’t first a dream. Understanding what has gone before, what works elsewhere and why as well as why people want to work together, what they want to achieve, how they can most effectively go about that is all part of our work. It often includes both strategic and emergent practice.
We also walk alongside projects, groups and individuals in trusted mentoring, coaching and facilitation roles. |
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Participatory evaluationNoticing and assessing what happens and what differences it makes (and for who) as we make changes is key to informing further development and change. We look for a wide range of outcomes including those related to participation, process, progress, new possibilities, people and policy. You can read more about these here.
And we are as much interested in the journey as we are in the outcomes, because it is often the contributing factors of the journey that give us the ingredients for replication, adaptation to different contexts and evolution as things change |
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THE BOTTOM LINE : GROWING CAPABILITYThe way we work is designed to always build on and grow the skills, experiences and perspectives that are already in your communities. We always learn from those we work with.
We love to share new ideas, ways of doing things and results. All of our work is designed to share and grow skills. As well, from time to time, we run events, courses and workshops to grow local skills, share understandings and broaden perspectives, including our own. We use a wide range of frameworks and models in our work and like to generate hybrids with local people to best fit the particular context. Some of our favourites are based on:
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