February 2013
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WatchA little video of our progress to date at Assemble & Join. Enjoy
October 2012
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Assemble & Join: Community Manufacturing, Lower Marsh
A new collaborative community workshop where, using digital manufacturing, local people will be able to design, develop and implement physical changes to the public realm in and around Lower Marsh.
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Assemble & Join (A&J), funded by Lambeth Council, is a collaboration between me, Christopher Jarratt and GD/HTA and will...
May 2012
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Meet Market: Earning While Learning
Meet Market supports young people to develop confidence, transferable skills, and potentially turn a profit by designing, developing and running their own market stalls.
[[MORE]] We believe in the power of using real life entrepreneurship as a learning tool. We also believe that the immediacy of Markets makes them the perfect platform to take a hands-on...
March 2012
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ROOM FOR TEA: A home-sharing social enterprise
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I am currently working with The Settlement and FutureGov on a project supported and funded by The Design Council and Technology Strategy Board called Room For Tea. I am working on the design of the service, the engagement and communications strategy.
Here’s some blurb, more to follow:
Room for Tea is a new kind of home-sharing...
January 2012
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Community Kite Project: Free kite-making and flying workshops
A collaborative project starting this March. We hosted a week-long festival of kite making and decorating workshops in a gallery and workshop in central London, for all and sundry. Local community groups, schools, hospitals, offices and families plucked from the street were invited to build a kite each, and the best bit - it was...
November 2011
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Signwriting: Community-led content for Thames View wayfinding
One of the upshots of our time engaging with the communities of Thames View, Barking Reach and Great Fleete, is that there is inadequate wayfinding, particularly in relation to local green spaces suitable for families.
There is provision of signs to a certain degree, but they often use ‘official’ language to point at...
October 2011
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BIRD BOXES: Collaborative development on Rivergate Square, Barking
As a part finished development, Barking Riverside has many boundaries between ongoing building work and flagship public facilities. Our ongoing work in Barking has seen an opportunity to work collaboratively with local residents to transform a 120 metre grey plywood fence into an interactive asset to the local community.
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August 2011
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BARKING RIVERSIDE: Creative engagement, public realm co-design, social innovation
Barking Riverside is one of the largest brownfield developments in Europe. Sandwiched between the A13, the River Thames and a sewage plant in a somewhat forgotten corner of East London Barking Riverside Ltd will oversee the building of thousands of new homes, offices, shops and schools during the next decade....
July 2011
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Spitalfields Crypt Trust: A social enterprise run by former addicts/homeless people
The good people at SLC invited me to get involved in the planning and design for their latest social venture, shop to be run and staffed by the people they help to recover from homelessness and addiction.
June 2011
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World’s Largest Bee Hotel: Co-built habitat at Barking Riverside
Despite being named the Thames View estate, it is not easy for the residents of this corner of Barking to access the river. To help improve this, make:good (with whom I am working on the project) and the London Wildlife Trust teamed up to design and co-build the world’s largest bee hotel on the banks of the Thames. We...
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Creative Partnerships: Outdoor Learning at Belvue School
Belvue is a secondary day special school in Northolt. The school would like to make more use of its outdoor space for both learning and playing. make:good (with whom I worked on this project as well as many others - use the search tool to find out which) were asked to develop proposals for the use of outdoor space both in a learning and...
November 2010
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CORNWALL APP:
A multifunctional smartphone app. aiming to exploit changes in the way people access information, in order to maximise visibility and availability of Cornish produce and products locally, nationally and globally.
The app. has three main functions: Bar code scanning: Visitors to Cornwall or to a Cornish pop-up shop/trade show can scan a special barcode on any Cornish ...
June 2010
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Mirrored Dinner: An innovative stakeholder dinner with a 300 mile long table
As part of a programme with FCWL designed to develop and improve producer - buyer - consumer communications, we hosted two simultaneous dinners, one in a smoked salmon factory in London and the other in a boatyard in Cornwall. The dinners were linked by a live video feed to allow discussion between guests at each...
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From Cornwall With Love: A Dott Cornwall Project
From Cornwall with Love looks for radical and inventive ways to promote the values of Cornwall through its products and produce. By establishing a link between the future brand and aspirations of the county, the aim of From Cornwall with Love is to stimulate growth in the dynamic businesses that will underpin Cornwall’s future economy.
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April 2010
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FARM:shop is a social and agrarian experiment to see how much food can be grown in a shop in East London. It is a chance for the local community to engage first hand with the growing process, and with those who grow it.
A collaborative proposal and successful funding application with collective Something & Son. Something & Son have taken the reigns to run the project, and it...
September 2009
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Poncho No.8: Design and strategy for London burrito restaurant
Poncho No.8 were looking to create an impact with their first retail offering in the highly competitive City of London lunchtime market. A fresh, vibrant interior mirrors the healthy Mexican food on offer, and the unique herringbone floor makes Poncho No.8 instantly recognisable.
June 2009
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April 2009
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MCC Museum: A new kind of exhibit for the home of cricket
Design and curation of an exhibition detailing the life and career of West Indian batsman Brian Lara. The exhibition centred around a hanging sculpture depicting the location of every scoring shot in Lara’s record breaking test match innings of 401*.
July 2006
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Eat This: Edible Ballot Papers
Eat This is an award winning response to the Design Council RED Team’s study assessing the role design plays in nurturing citizenship. Part of the study, entitled ‘Touching the State’ asked designers and innovators to suggest ways in which ‘The State’ could be more approachable. Eat This is a proposal for voters to be given edible...
