We have started Small Works Big Ideas, our Islington-based social action programme which challenges young people to act on issues that they care about in their community and create solution driven projects. The programme is part of the Ambitious Communities programme commissioned by Islington Council. It launched in 2018 and […] more »
Credit: Tiina Azojan for Tallinn Design Festival Human Cities: Challenging the City Scale book launch We are delighted to announce that the final book of the Human Cities project- “Challenging the City Scale: Journeys in People-Centred Design”– has been completed, published and launched. On 13th September, we celebrated the joint […] more »
On 10th November 2016, Clear Village played host to a dynamic mix of community members, social entrepreneurs, housing providers and local government representatives. After kicking off the event with a “market” at Small Works Kings Cross, where attendees could get to know the social enterprises working from our Small Works […] more »
“I realized that basically the way that cities are being developed is a little broken.” — Thomas Ugo Ermacora, founder, Clear Village Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author Thomas Ermacora terms ‘recoding’. In […] more »
Inspired by the success of the soup events in Detroit our friends at Small Works Kings Cross and Small Works Victoria have brought #PROJECTSOUP to London. Since its successful 2015 launch, we have raised nearly £5000 for local projects in Westminster & Islington. The concept for Project Soup is simple: + […] more »
As 2015 draws to a close, I would like to share a number of reflections on how I see Clear Village developing in the years ahead. The first theme I would like to touch on is the relationship between participatory design and technology. Until now Clear Village has been viewed […] more »
In July we wrote about our view on the key messages from the Future of Places conferences in Stockholm. We talked about the emergence of new models of delivering public space in which newly emerging actors play a key role. With new technologies that facilitate these models becoming accessible to […] more »
In the beginning of July UN Habitat and Project for Public Spaces hosted a three-day conference on the Future of Places. The aim of the conference, and the two preceding ones, was to establish a set of key messages on public space making for the HABITAT III conference in 2016. […] more »
The Local Centres Regeneration Toolkit we developed together with Opportunity Sutton is now accessible online. Sutton’s town centres and high streets, much like others in the UK, face the challenge of declining attractiveness, vacant spaces and loss of customers. The aim of the toolkit is to offer guidance to community groups, […] more »