Community Design Exchange
Community Design Exchange is a social network site and visual gallery developed by the Open University in order to collect and disseminate achievements of community-led design. More specifically the aim is: a) to collect individual stories from people who have taken part and benefited from community projects, and provide evidence of the value of their activity and the impact it has been making to their local environment, and b) to provide a space for sharing and learning about community led design projects and allow people to network and build on each other's experience.
We welcome contributions from individuals and communities around the country, no matter how small and at what stage in their journey.
Visit Community Design Exchange to Find Community Projects, Share your Stories and Discuss with others in the site forum.
To develop, test and evaluate the site we held focus groups and workshops with nine different community groups involved in local projects (Friends of Barnfield Estate, Kirdford Community Led Plan, Canterbury Society, Wards Corner Community Coalition, LCNC, Hackbridge and Beddington Corner NDG, Goldsmiths Community Centre, The Mill and Peckham Vision - to whom we are very grateful!).
We believe that the medium offers the opportunity for wider dissemination of evidence about the benefits of community-led design in an open, intuitive, and visual way. The focus on image, video and storytelling allows making a distinct contribution to the theme of valuation, where emphasis is on articulation and communication rather than measurement.
We welcome contributions from individuals and communities around the country, no matter how small and at what stage in their journey.
Visit Community Design Exchange to Find Community Projects, Share your Stories and Discuss with others in the site forum.
To develop, test and evaluate the site we held focus groups and workshops with nine different community groups involved in local projects (Friends of Barnfield Estate, Kirdford Community Led Plan, Canterbury Society, Wards Corner Community Coalition, LCNC, Hackbridge and Beddington Corner NDG, Goldsmiths Community Centre, The Mill and Peckham Vision - to whom we are very grateful!).
We believe that the medium offers the opportunity for wider dissemination of evidence about the benefits of community-led design in an open, intuitive, and visual way. The focus on image, video and storytelling allows making a distinct contribution to the theme of valuation, where emphasis is on articulation and communication rather than measurement.