Urban Activation in Ilford Town Centre
Sometimes, our action research creates wonderful spaces for experimentation, and our Incubating Civic Leadership* project has done just that, sowing […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jul 21, 2021
EDP Live: celebrating community-led design in historic places of worship
By Sophia de Sousa and Katerina Alexiou On 12 February, 2020, The Empowering Design Practices research team gathered with partners […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Mar 10, 2020
Redefining our collaborative design language at Beyond Buzzwords
Community-led and community-engaged design are increasingly part of the development and regeneration narrative, but what do these terms actually mean? […]
Myra Stuart
Posted on Oct 19, 2018
Layers of Community: Design Training Sheffield 2018
By Myra Stuart Examples of how local communities are the experts abounded at our latest Design Training workshop, while a […]
Myra Stuart
Posted on Sep 20, 2018
Learning about and exploring the potential of design – EDP Design Training in Manchester
On 20th and 21st June, our Empowering Design Practices project ran a two-day Design Training course (based on Buildings by Design, […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Aug 3, 2017
Helping groups to rediscover their buildings through design training
Sometimes, when a community-based organisation is looking after a building, the challenges of the everyday can be overwhelming. This is […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Oct 13, 2016
In my dream of utopia: creative spaces for utopian thinking
“.. there are many things in the commonwealth of Utopia that I rather wish…to see followed in our governments.” – […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Aug 3, 2016
A clear vision and great design at St Michael and All Angels
One of the elements of our Empowering Design Practices project is to visit places of worship that have made physical […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Aug 2, 2016
We must be ambitious and dare to dream about the ideal: Dreaming Utopias in Bow
When people are asked to consider the future of their place, most often it is through a consultation exercise to […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 25, 2016
Dreaming about Bow’s future by ‘Prototyping Utopias’
Community invited to dream about Bow’s future What would your ideal Bow look like? The Glass-House, the Open University and […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Apr 14, 2016