Since September 2013, Clear Village has been working with the Friends of Roxton Road Parks (FoRPP) to revitalize a small network of downtown parks in Toronto, Canada. FoRPP aims to improve the parks’ infrastructure and programming for the benefit of local area residents, but the group also has broader objectives: […] more »
Handcrafted toys for Vauxhall Estate children
SISK are an Irish construction company, who are involved in building 25 new affordable homes for Peabody and in the run up to Christmas they held an event at Small Works Victoria where they donated handcrafted timber toys to six children. This was the first time that Sisk has donated […] more »
Honourable mention in Brutalist Facelift competition
Clear Village has won an honourable mention in the “Brutalist Facelift’ competition with a proposal to make a series of post-war communist housing blocks in Latvia ‘invisible’ with a mirrored facade. The Brutalist Facelift competition, part of the Ghost Town Challenge organised by Homemade Dessert, asked participants to propose facade […] more »
Three concepts for resilience – by Thomas Ermacora
To launch the Voices series, I would like to discuss three concepts which lie at the heart of what we’re trying to achieve at Clear Village. They are, in a sense, the DNA of our organisation. I believe that they are also part of a wider trend in placemaking and […] more »
Is the human brain operating at the village scale? – by Alice Holmberg
Human evolution does not roll itself out at fibre-optic speed. Quite on the contrary, we humans evolve extremely slowly with unrecognisable differences from generation to generation. Indeed many scientists across the board classify our neural structures still as a “stone-age brain”. What if it’s not so much that we are […] more »
Paint as a tool of change – by Teresa García Alcaraz
Alongside my work at Clear Village, I am a member of the LPU collective, Liga de la Partida Urbana. At LPU, we carry out urban interventions that aim to rediscover and re-invent the public space in the barrios of Caracas through multiple and diverse artistic interactions. They are intended to […] more »
Towards the crowd-sourced city vision? – by Robin Houterman
Participatory planning on the neighbourhood level has been experimented with, and in some cities established practice, for many years. Next Hamburg has taken participatory planning to the next scale, experimenting with crowd-sourcing a vision for 2030 on the city level. Since January 2013, they have been replicating the experiment in […] more »
Pressing fresh Apple Juice in Workshop 44
The London Orchard Project held 2 ‘Juicing Day’ events on Oct. 26th and Oct. 31st, offering samples to passers-by and showing Regent Estate residents the benefits of having their own community orchard. This winter, the London Orchard Project will be facilitating the planting of several small community orchards around the […] more »
November 2013
PROJECT NEWS PLACEMAKING AWARDS 2013 SHORTLISTED x2 We’re delighted to say that two of our projects have been shortlisted for the Placemaking Awards 2013, which “recognise and publicise projects, plans, people and organisations that are making places better”. Our Alley Links project was shortlisted for “public participation in planning”, while […] more »