KILBURN GRANGE PARK CONVERSATIONS

UCL - The Bartlett School of Architcture

MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments

BARC0033

Design Practice for Historic Urban Environments

Presented to Maxwell Mutanda, Jane Wong, Lakshmi Priya Rajendran and Professor Barbara Campbell-Lange

Matthias Palla, Suhela Maini, Dorna Shafieyoon

April 27, 2023

Looking for an opportunity to design for the community, we chose Kilburn Grange Park and the area around Kilburn Community Garden to focus on. We were searching for a way to collaborate with and learn from the community through a project beyond buildings and physical space, without interfering with the existing common setting of the neighborhood. In search of a framework to begin our process with, we realized the shortage of such tools for the professional facilitators willing to follow co-design principles. This realization, shifted our focus from designing a physical structure to creating a framework based on which community-based projects can be implemented and sustained. Moreover, to test and criticize the process, we proposed a small-scale community project in the context of Kilburn Grange Park as an example of how a design intervention can be planned with respect to this framework.

The process of this project has been recorded in different manners, the first being manuals, and another being an interactive 3D model. Different layers of the model have been documented as being assembled in the form of a stop motion film titled ‘Kilburn Grange Park Conversations.’ 2 The documentation of this process can be considered as the main output of our project, setting an example for similar community projects in the future.