This year will be an exciting year in the Human Cities III_Challenging The City Scale project! While this iteration of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union project is coming to an end in 2018, it also means that a showcase of all the experiments and subsequent learnings will […] more »
Maker Mile, FabCity?
Fabrication according to conventional wisdom is where raw materials are turned into finished goods on a large scale. The image that comes to mind is of industrial buildings with smoking stacks on the brown belt of a regional city and shipping containers packed with batches of 1000’s meeting a global […] 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 »
Regent Estate Big Lunch at Small Works Hackney
On a warm and sunny Sunday, Small Works Hackney celebrated the Global Sharing Day by hosting a Big Lunch with the community of Regent Estate. The legendary Caribbean food of local chef Rosa and the inviting sandwiches brought by other residents nourished informal chats as well as passionate discussions about […] more »
CLEAR VILLAGE to redesign alleys with Tottenham community
We are very excited to announce that Design Council/CABE and the Friends of Down Lane Park have selected CLEAR VILLAGE as the design partner for the Alley Links project in Tottenham, northeast London. Alley Links is part of the Design Your Neighbourhood programme that matches community groups with local design […] more »
Make your square
On a beautiful, clear and crisp Saturday morning in Hackney, CLEAR VILLAGE and CIVA joined the community of Regent Estate and members of the Tenants and Residents Association for a day of design and making at Workshop 44. The plan for the day was simple; get together to share, exchange […] more »
CLEAR VILLAGE NEWSLETTER
PROJECTS & LABS NEWS I LOVE ATINA CLEAR VILLAGE is excited to announce our findings for the first phase of our co-creative work in Atina, Italy! Atina is a typical small town facing many of the typical challenges of a rural location. It suffers from an ageing population and an […] more »
CLEAR VILLAGE NEWSLETTER DD#II
DYNAMIC DIALOGUES CONTINUE Our project in Helsingborg constitutes a community driven cultural engine! Back in February and March we collaborated with the Helsingborg City Theatre for the first time. Together, we staged the “Dynamic Dialogues” as a 2-day immersive Lab with a diverse range […] more »
Invitation to the next CLEAR VILLAGE project
Join forces for the walled kitchen garden a CLEAR VILLAGE project in cooperation with Imogen Heap Join us for an Open-Air Lab near London on September 22-28th! We invite all Clear-Village friends, members, experts and partners to participate in our first open-air lab near Romford (Essex, UK) to kickstart the […] more »