Community design is about bringing people together to explore challenges, share ideas and co-create solutions that make places fairer, kinder and more connected.
As a community design and technology company, we can support you with community-tech and design thinking expertise - either individually or combined - to help you shape solutions.
Our two-day Design Thinking workshops in Cornwall combine practical tools with a reflective coastal setting.
Join experienced service designers Kathryn and Robert Woolf for a two-day workshop designed to help you and your team:
Rethink how you approach complex problems
Generate fresh, practical ideas
Prototype and test with confidence
Build a culture of collaboration and creativity
Communities today face many social, economic, environmental and philosophical challenges that are often best understood and tackled by the people most affected by them.
Building on the work of our great friends Owen Tilbury and Peter Murden in Tasmania, our updated CLIP (Community-Led Impact Partnerships) programme helps local leaders turn problems into projects, and vision into action.
Our 5Ps model is a practical blueprint for creating community change - one that keeps everyone in the community connected and focused on what matters most to them.
Purpose: a shared vision that unites stakeholders.
Partners: collaborators who bring skills and commitment.
Processes: systems and habits that strengthen what works.
Platform: the tools to connect people and resources.
People: community members at the centre of every decision.
We can help you put some or all of these 5Ps into practice in ways that reflect your community’s unique strengths and challenges.
An RNLI initiative.
Design Out Drowning was a community-led research project designed to help the RNLI reduce the risk of drowning around the UK and Republic of Ireland.
A Design Council initiative.
Sponsored by the Design Council, Designing Communities was a community engagement project to ensure community voices genuinely shaped future plans.
A co-design project.
We partnered with Golf In Society to explore the challenges facing older adults and their carers, and co-design a service blueprint envisioning golf clubs as Health Hubs.
An ECEHH initiative.
A European Centre for Environment and Human Human project, Health in Habitat used citizen science to explore how everyday experiences of nature affect health and wellbeing.
A Teignbridge District Council initiative.
Recommended by the Design Council, we set out to explore whether a design-led, preventative approach could reduce falls and improve home safety.
A Design Council initiative.
Sponsored by the Design Council, the Big Design Challenge was a major initiative using design to address social, environmental and economic challenges.
