Kilburn Grange Park Conversations

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 Candidate numbers: XQTY7, ZRRH3, ZKHX4 April 27, 2023

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SITE PLACEMENT KILBURN GRANGE PARK P. 7

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Network Analysis - Visible Network

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Network Analysis - Invisible Network

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Initial Design Proposal P. 20

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STAGE 3 IMPLEMENTATION P. 25 6.01

Summary of Engagement P. 26

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Possible Interventions P. 28

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Pop - Up Manual P. 29

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Primary Output P. 31

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CONCLUSION P. 34

BIBLIOGRAPHY P. 38

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‘ Su s t a i n i n g and de s i g n i n g co m mo n s is a challenge for architects today: designing as commoning, designing for sharing, designing collectively, accessibly in such a way that design is not perceived as a privilege and a commodity any more, it does not segregate and exclude but assemble, socialise and eventually politicise.’ 1

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INTRODUCTION

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.

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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.

(Petrescu 2013) (Kilburn Grange Park Conversations 2023- https://youtu.be/0Hj-DoetN6c )

SMALL SCALE COMMUNITY PROJECTS A MANUAL FOR What does it mean to design for the community? What does COMMUNITY need to be BUILDERS defined? What are the restrictions, what are the rules? How can we notice and move away from our positions as outsider professionals to partners of the community? And how do we conduct a project like that?

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Stages 0-4 will generally be undertaken one after the other.

Stages 4 and 5 will overlap in the Project Programme for most projects.

Stage 5 commences when the protypes have been tested and feedback from the users/and community has been incorporated.

Stage 6 starts with the handover of the project entirely to the community, from whereon they manage the project by themselves. They run it and develop ways and means to understand and expand it.

Stage 7 starts concurrently with Stage 6 and lasts for the life of the intervention. It may be adapted over time as the needs of the community evolve.

*Please Note: Stages 5,6 & 7 have not been tested at this time of the project, they are open to changes after they have been put through a round of testing.

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Starting with RIBA Plan of Work as a base tool, we kept the general template and altered the stage outcome and core tasks’ content to include more community engagements in each stage and make it more compatible overall to cooperative, small-scale community projects. By testing out the updated version on the field, we realized that the stages are better implied to probability rather than certainty based on unique challenges and community feedbacks that each project may deals with.

This plan of work describes the process undertaken to deliver small-scale community projects with the help of design interventions by putting together a Project Programme. The different stages identified serve as a guidance to present the work to the community and can be used as stages to plan a community project that is adaptable, and sustained over a period of time.

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In order to design a new manual, we followed a critical approach towards the original Plan of Work as well as our altered version itself. Consequently, we tried to test the manual in the field, record every challenge carefully and edit and update the manual

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based on our findings. We consider this project as a process, not a finished product; with a self-critical attitude to make room for more explorations and improvements within the limited time-frame of this project and beyond.

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RIBA Plan of work provides architects with a tool to organize different stages of a building project throughout its life. Although, it might not be applicable to community projects seeking co-design principals to make the project for and by the community. In such projects a more cooperative, user friendly approach should be followed that may contradict with the somewhat patronizing point of view that RIBA Plan of Work suggests. As a result, we decided to alter this framework to provide a reference for designers and architects as professional facilitators intending to deliver small-scale community projects.

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Stage 6 starts with the handover of the project entirely to the community, from whereon they manage the project by themselves. They run it and develop ways and means to understand and expand it.

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Based on the framework suggested by the new Plan of Work and limited time and resources we have as students, our project is structured into three main stages with overlaps at some parts:

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Therefore, we made the manual circular in the final edition and used a less certain language to describe the stages. These changes allowed us to emphasize on the flexibility and the possibility of overlaps between stages, making it more adaptable to different community projects’ variants. The circular manual illustrates that the project never ends, it’s a repeating cycle instead of a line with an ending point.

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Define aim of project

Develop design brief in alignment with community aims and needs

Finalising Design Brief and work on initial concepts for design

Finalising design for community, identifying volunteers from within the community Finalising budgets and timelines

Test prototypes on users, i.e. community Start building on site with help of volunteers Create shop drawings for interventions

Oversee work on site, coordinate between volunteers, users and design team.

Handover to Community while ensuring sustained performance and adaptablity

Outline further involvement and use of interventions

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Identify aims of project

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Finalise Design Brief Identify scales for design intervention

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Identify existing working network for community, if any

Identify new networks to layer on existing ones in the community

Finalise Funding Options, Budget and timeline

Finalise design after feedback from users, i.e. community

Workshops and events to introduce design and explain uses so it can be sustained for a period of time and adapted to future or expanded through future communities

Implement design on site

Identify opportunities to build in the community

Build Protoypes to test and receive feedback from community

Coordinate between different teams working

Define area of intervention

Finalise design interventions with helps of users and community

Study old community projects as precedents for project

Community involvement in design concept, receive feedback on initial designs

Identify Gaps and Barriers in the community

Discuss project budget and timeline

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Look for funding options

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Explore options to involve community to ensure sustained use and any revenue streams from use of interventions Identify volunteers from within community to work on project

Create final shop drawings for interventions Identify volunteers to build on site Finalise revenue of streams from community work

Monitor work on Site Resolve any issues that come up on site Involve community for any feedback that comes up while working Record process on site for future projects

Record feedback and rectify, if required

Record use of interventions Make regular visits for maintenance purposes Make a note of how the design is used so it can be used as a precedent for future community projects

Identify vendors to procure materials for construction

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In the initial stage of our project, we tried to gain a better understanding of the community’s social setting to define our positionality and level of intervention. By analysing the existing infrastructure, we subsequently evolved our design brief based on potentials within the community.

Following the steps mentioned in the Plan of Work, we are now prepared to face new challenges and test our initial analysis and ideas in the field by engaging with the community and apply their feedbacks into the process.

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Finalising design for community, identifying volunteers from within the community Finalising budgets and timelines.

Test prototypes on users, i.e. community Start building on site with help of volunteers Create shop drawings for interventions.

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Explore Funding Options, Budget and timeline Finalise design brief based on feedback from users Identify constraints for project Finalise scales for design intervention Explore Funding Options, Budget and timeline

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Identify constraints for project Allocate sufficient time and resources to assure community involvement

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Identify aims of project

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Study old community projects in the area as precedents for project Identify opportunities to build in the community Develop Initial Design Brief

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Resolve any issues that come up on site Coordinate between different teams working Record process on site for future projects Monitor work on Site Monitor budget through project cycle Resolve any issues that come up on site

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Record feedback and rectify, if required Discuss design elements and key aims so they can be adapted or expanded through future community projects

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be adapted or expanded through future Organise workshops community projects and events to introduce design and explain uses

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Make sure the co-design has resulted in collective benefits based on community feedbacks and and apply changes, if neccessary.

CO-DESIGN TASKS Involve community for any feedback that comes up

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Engage with community at hand and use their collective intelligence to identify their needs

Investigate the existing social infrastructure and networks of communities.

Organise inclusive events to enable diverse community groups‘ participation

Address power imbalance, gaps and barriers

Explain clearly the design brief within community to receive feedback

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Monitor work on Site

Identify new networks and integrate existing networks in the design

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volunteers from brief withinbased the community Finalise design on feedback from users Finalising budgets and timelines.

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Based on the Plan of Work manual, the second stage of this project revolves mostly around community engagements to generate a design proposal in response to constraints in time, funding and policies. Fallowing the steps mentioned in the Plan of Work, empower different groups of users to participate and co-lead the decision-making process for promoting new proposals and making sure that the co-design results in collective benefits.

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Make sure the results does not exclude or Empower different communinities to sustain the disadvantage any groups of community project beyond thetime-limited period professional facilitating Make sure the results does not exclude or disadvantage any groups of community

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Make sure the co-design has resulted in collective benefits based on community feedbacks and and apply changes, if neccessary.

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Plan of Work’s physical version as a circular manual

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SITE PLACEMENT To test the new Plan of Work on ground and develop it based on practical challenges we face, we selected Kilburn Grange Park as a site for our experimental small-scale community project.

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Narrowing down the area of our intervention to be more focused, we chose the eastern part of the park including an outdoor gym, a playground and a community project which attracts people from a wide range of backgrounds and age groups. This was a starting point for our project to better understand social, cultural and environmental infrastructure of the chosen site as a scope of a community.

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In addition, being under Camden Council planning enforcement, implementation of any project in the park can be practically challenging for bureaucratic reasons. Although these challenges may be considered as obstacles in general,

they can be particularly useful in the case of this experimental project to make it more reliable in practical terms as an example for similar projects in the future.

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First of all, the park ’s appropriate size and location, its connection to nearby buildings, urban spaces and community centres, along with its facilities and amenities, makes it a potential space for hosting different groups of communities at a local scale. Furthermore, the park seems to have enough space for further interventions to more inclusively transform users into stakeholders in new forms of collaboration and active participation.

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Spatial Ananlysis Kilburn Grange Park

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10 Kilburn Community Garden and surrounding areas within the park

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The first stage of the project includes first hand community engagements followed by spatial, ecological and social analysis of the chosen site. This

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S U M M A RY O F E N G A G E M E N T ANALYSING KILBURN GRANGE PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN AS A CASE STUDY

We then investigated the existing social infrastructure and learn about people’s insights for the park’s present and future, and their aspirations for it.

These conversations have also been recorded in the form of a movie, titled ‘Overheard Community Conversations.’ 5

Furthermore, on the 29th of January, we participated in one of the inclusive events arranged by the garden to plant seeds and learn more about gardening. We listened to and communicated with people to create partnerships with local community groups.

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Therefore, we started the analysis phase by focusing on Kilburn Community Garden, an existing community project designed and run by the local people, promoting the idea of ‘Anyone Can Grow’ 4 regardless of their age and background. We studied the project’s timeline, its design and implementation process, the main running core and volunteer participants by looking into different events they arranged along with the verbal and visual reports provided on the community garden’s social media accounts.

A research tool based on the first stage community engagements

In a project based on co-design, community engagement is a process that starts before any decisions is made and goes beyond generating proposals.

KILBURN GRANGE PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN 29. JANUARY 2023

WHAT DO WE NEED?

PUBLIC FACILITIES!

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OVERHEARD COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

This is a summary of the conversations between the members of the Kilburn community at an event held by Kilburn Community Garden. By engaging in this event, we observed members of the community garden trying to work with each other regardless of their age, skills, and background, to expand and strengthen their community.

This will assist us, designers, as a research tool to learn more about the people we are working with and give us an understanding of how they engage within their community.

WHAT SEEDS DO YOU WANT TO GROW?

WE NEED FINANCIAL SUPPORT!

LABEL YOUR POTS! WARM SPACE!

HOW DO WE PLANT SEEDS? CHOOSE YOUR POT!

JOIN US!

HOW DO WE MAINTAIN THE GARDEN?

THE PLANTS NEED POLLARDING!

WHEN ARE WE HARVESTING?

The summary of the first stage community engagements

GROW SOME SEEDS WITH US!

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Looking for opportunities to intervene and generate a proposal, we tried to identify the existing networks based on which we could analyse the gaps and barriers within the networks as a starting point to strengthen and integrate the existing infrastructure into our design intervention.

The visible network analysis illustrates the first-degree connections between different agencies and users of the park which imply not only to social but also ecological relationships, including flora, fauna and human to ensure a more sustainable and inclusive approach.

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locally closed ecological c h a i n t h a t e n c o u r a g e s a c t i ve participation and selfmanaged use of possible common territories and l e f t ove r s p a c e s w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y.

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Visible network

N E T W O R K A N A LY S I S INVISIBLE NETWORK

T h e s o c i a l a n d p o l i t i c a l n e t wo r k a n a l ys i s o n t h e o t h e r h a n d , requires a deeper level of investigation and understanding which makes rather invisible. This study reveals the social and political relationships between different agencies, such as local authorities, community groups,

volunteers, and local suppliers and organizations, that can support or discourage community projects with their strong influence in the process of decision-making, implementation and management.

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Agents added

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18 Fourth Layer

Private suppliers in detail

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Social and political network analysis of existing infrastructure

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N E T W O R K A N A LY S I S GAPS AND BARRIERS

Based on network analysis, we could identify gaps and barriers as another form of social analysis which implies the power imbalance, weak connections and unused potentials.

This study can ultimately lead to an understanding of what people may need as a collective for more urban resilience that empowers them to be promoters of their own community.

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Identified Gaps

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Identified Barriers

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Gaps identified in existing social and political infrastructure

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S O C I A L A C T I V I T Y A N A LY S I S CHRONOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

Who, when and how is using Kilburn Grange Park? Who is welcome and who is being kept out?

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1AM 2AM

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9PM

FEB Kilburn Grange Park Community Garden Playground Chalestics Park Caretaker

TENNIS TOURNAMENT

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All year TUESDAY

Kingsgate Primary School Nursery School Kilburn Grange childreen centre Kingsgate resource centre Dog walking

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7AM

5PM

8AM

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9AM 2PM

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Opening Times Kilburn Grange Park 7.30am - 8pm Open 8am - 5pm

Kilburn Grange Park have different kinds of users based on the activities and social events they engage in throughout the day, week and year.

Having an understanding of the park’s users as well as the range of activities

through the day

7PM

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and community gatherings that may attract new ones, helps identifying the potential active participants in the process of co-design as well as the ways of including community groups that might have been excluded.

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APR SPRING STORYTELLING Mid April

WEDNSDAY

MAY

COMMUNITY GARDENING 1.30pm

JUN

THURSDAY KILBURN FESTIVAL

JUL

FAMILY FUNFAIR Early July

Mid July AUG FIT CAMP WORKOUT

ASSEMBLE PLAY BRENT BIENNALE

FRIDAY KILBURN MUSIC FESTIVAL

10am

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End August

OCT

GERMAN BEER FESTIVAL

Early September SATURDAY COMMUNITY GARDENING

ZUMBA 12.30pm

1.30pm

COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS HALLOWEEN End October

SUNDAY

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Early October NOV

DEC

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STAGE II TESTING

from stage I, to criticise the functionality of the networks we previously discovered and push our design process towards a more realistic and practical approach based on the community’s feedback.

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5.1

S U M M A RY O F E N G A G E M E N T USER SURVEY OF KILBURN GRANGE PARK

During this visit, we unexpectedly came across the council’s pop up presenting their masterplan for the park’s development that will be implemented in the next 3-5 years.

As explained by the architect and council members, the development plan was based on the local people’s feedbacks from previous pop ups, with a focus on Eco Zone, Community Garden, Millennium Circle, Play Area, and Central Lawn. Ironically, moving away from the bright future envisioned by the council developers, we were told by the active members of Community Garden how little the council actually listens to the people and how frustrating and discouraging a community project’s implementation can be due to bureaucratic obstacles.

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As a participatory process to discuss our initial design brief, we planned our second community engagement as a series of active conversations with different groups of users in Kilburn Grange Park including active members of Kilburn Community Garden and casual users.

A research tool based on the second stage community engagements

In a project based on co-design, community engagement is a process that starts before any decisions is made and goes beyond generating proposals.1

KILBURN GRANGE PARK KILBURN RESIDENTS 04. MARCH 2023

This is a summary of our second engagement with different groups of people in Kilburn Grange Park, in a series of interviews.

STAGE STAGE IIII TESTING TESTING IDEAS IDEAS

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ACTIVE COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

During these interviews, we made an attempt to test our initial ideas in the political and social settings of the park as well as understanding the communities’ needs.

This summary will assist us, designers, as a research tool to criticise the functionality of the network we previously discovered , and vto push our design process towards a more realistic and practical approach.

HOW HOW ABOUT ABOUT MORE MORE COMMUNITY PROJECTS COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN IN THE THE PARK? PARK?

THE THE PROJECT PROJECT WILL WILL BE BE IMPLEMENTED IMPLEMENTED WITHIN WITHIN 3-5 3-5 YEARS! YEARS!

NO! NO! IT‘S IT‘S IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE!

SCURITY SCURITY REASONS! REASONS!

YES! YES! BUT BUT IT‘S IT‘S TOO TOO MUCH MUCH BUREAUCRACY! BUREAUCRACY!

KILBURN KILBURN GRANGE GRANGE PARK PARK DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT PLAN PLAN

CAMDEN CAMDEN COUNCIL COUNCIL AND AND GLA GLA ARE FUNDING ARE FUNDING THE THE KILBURN KILBURN GRANGE GRANGE PARK PARK PROJECT! PROJECT!

WE WE NEED NEED MORE MORE SECURITY SECURITY IN IN THE THE PARK PARK FOR FOR YOUNG YOUNG PEOPLE! PEOPLE!

TOILETS!

YOUNG YOUNG GIRLS GIRLS NEED NEED A A SECURE SECURE SPACE SPACE TO TO HANG HANG OUT! OUT!

The summary of the second stage community engagements

BARBEQUE SPACES! WHAT WHAT IS IS MISSING MISSING FROM FROM THE THE PARK? PARK?

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DO DO YOU YOU WANT WANT TO TO SELL SELL WHAT WHAT GARDEN GARDEN PRODUCES? PRODUCES?

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INITIAL DESIGN PROCESS INTERVENTIONS BASED ON NETWORKS AND GAPS Based on our findings about the park’s groups of users, social, cultural and environmental infrastructure and gaps and barriers within the existing network, we generated a proposal regarding what we assumed would result in collective benefits by empowering active community members to achieve more.

The proposal includes three complementary design units to fairly fill the gaps in the existing network to increase selfsufficiency, especially by providing opportunities of funding, engagement and public facilities as requested by community members.

What experience do we as designers want to impart to the community?

EXPERIENCE Workshop

Shelter of Ideas

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What are the different uses for the intervention?

TIONAL FUNC ITY

Market Stall

What changes will be made through the intervention?

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An initial proposal for three design units based on gaps in existing infrastructure

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The process of design thinking employed for the first set of interventions

I N F O R M AT I O N P R O C E S S I N G ANNOTATED DIAGRAMMS

Based on the feedbacks we received during our second community engagement, we reworked an updated the Plan of Work along with social analysis of the existing network. We realised how various agencies may have different level of social and political influence on community projects that may be work as a barrier rather than a connection.

For example, Camden council with the highest level of political power, has discouraged the community from getting involved in council plans for co-design or putting up more community projects in the park because of bureaucracy and previous empty promises.

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S O C I A L N E T W O R K A N A LY S I S ANNOTATED DIAGRAMM

Camden Council

Friends of Kilburn Grange Park

Volunteers South Hampstead and Kilburn Community Partnership Community Champions

Veolia

Transition Town Kensal to Kilburn

Kilburn Tin Tabernacle

/ Buttle’s Kingsgate Workshop

Community Garden

/ idverde team at Regent's Park

/ HSS Hire

/ B&Q / Kingsgate Workshop

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/ Regent's Park gardens

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/ Street Tree Ltd

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Outdoor Gym

Support and P r o mo t i n g Maintenan ce

Private Suppliers

The annotations made on the social network analysis from stage I, led us to a new diagram based on the type and level of involvement each agency may have in different stages (planning, investment, construction, maintenance and promotion) within the existing network.

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S TA K E H O L D E R A N A LY S I S STAKEHOLDER VERSUS USERS

INFLUENCE

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COUNCIL

COMMUNITY GARDEN USERS

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based on influence-interest graph

Discussing our ideas for design interventions within the community, we learned about the practical challenges and people’s reluctance to move forward with the initial proposal which made it unsuitable for the context of Kilburn Grange Park. Receiving direct ideas for interventions based on what people need as a collective, we decided to map out an influence-interest graph to chart out. Extending from the community garden and its adjacent users and key players, we included new groups of users and stakeholders such as the Kilburn residents, frequent users of the park, and most importantly the council, to make our analysis more practically reliable.

KILBURN RESIDENTS

PLAYGROUND USERS

FREQUENT USERS

INFREQUENT USERS

The influence-interest graph helped us identify the community’s aspirations for the park, the power imbalance between users and stakeholders, and the possibility of the project’s realization by analysing how different agents respond to the old and new interventions during the interviews we conducted.

GROUPS

COUNCI COMMU KILBRUN FREQUE INFREQU PLAYGRO

INTEREST GROUPS OF USERS

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Testing possible design interventions among different groups of users

COUNCIL COMMUNITY GARDEN USERS KILBURN RESIDENTS FREQUENT USERS INFREQUENT USERS PLAYGROUND USERS

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5.6

PLANNING PROCESS WITH TIME FRAME GUIDELINES, POLICIES AND FUNDING

Considering Camden Council’s bureaucracy as one of the most determinizing factors in a project’s realization, we made a diagram to investigate the limitations as well as appropriate time and funding resources for our project’s implementation.

JUN 24 Duration of the Installation JUN 24 Building RISK

JUN 23 Apply for Planning Permission

APR 23 Duration of the Installation APR 23 Building JUN 23 Apply for Pop-Up Installation JUN 23 Waiting for Funding

RISK RISK

MAR 23 Public Presentation / Planning Process MAR 23 Apply for Funding

FUNDING Arts Council England The London Community Foundation Art Fund - Young Camden Fondation

MAR 23 Safegarding Policy / Manifesto MAR 23 Open bank account

PERMANENT PERMISSION POP-UP INSTALLATION

MAR 23 Fund an organisation

OVERHEARD CONVERSATIONS

OCT 22 Funding of £2000 granted

by Camden Council

Critical Path

MAR 23 Funding still not received

MAY 22 Construction starts MAY 22 Permission granted

MAY 25 3 year contract runs out

W i t h t h e c o u n c i l p r o p o s i n g t h e i r m a s t e r p l a n 6, our timeline had to fit in the timeframe of the n ex t 2 ye a r s . T h e o n l y w ay t o a c h i eve t h i s d u r i n g t h e g i ve n t i m e f r a m e , c o n s i d e r i n g t h e p e r m i s s i o n s and policies of the council, was through a pop -up t h a t d o e s n o t l a s t m o r e t h a n t wo we e k s .

SEP 21 Request for Planning permission

KILBURN GRANGE PARK COMMUNITY GARDEN

This diagram illustrates how the popup can be achieved, and the method involved to set it up. The critical path charts the deal-breakers for this project, without which the project will extend into a longer time period.

APR 27 Implementation of Stage 2 starts APR 25 Implementation of Stage 1 starts

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APR 22 Secure Funding by Camden Council / GLA NOV 22 Community / Stakeholder Involvement by Soundings OCT 22 Reworks on the Masterploan by CBA Studio 2016 Old Masterplan

KILBURN GRANGE PARK MASTER PLAN

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TESTING 1 2

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2025

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PROJECT CONSTRAINT

Artwork, Statues and Memorial CPG, Camden Council, March 2019 Pop up Shop Project - General Information

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IMPLEMENTATION

The final stage of our work is an

a n i m p le me n t a t i o n of co - de s i g n i dea s a s a pop - u p p ro j ec t based on our findings in stage I and II. This is rather a conclusion to the process we went through to discover what people need and find a way to make it happen despite all the barriers.

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S U M M A RY O F E N G A G E M E N T POSSIBLE COMMUNITY RESPONSES

In a project based on co-design, community engagement is a process that starts before any decisions is made and goes beyond generating proposals.1

This is a hypothetical community engagement after the project’s implementation in summer 2024, representing an abstract of the ideas we had as a collective. It shows some examples of straightforward and simple solutions for the community’s actual challenges, making a statement that criticizes bureaucratic barriers.

The additions that the community are asking for are a c t u a l l y q u i t e s i m p l e: a t o i l e t , a s h e l t e r e d s e a t i n g s p a c e a n d a b a rb e c u e a r e a f o r c o m m u n a l a c t i v i t i e s .

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W h a t h a p p e n s i f a p r o j e c t i s r e a l i s e d?

A research tool based on the third stage community engagements

The additions that community is asking for is actually quite simple: a toilet, a sheltered seating space and a barbecue area for communal activities.

It shows some examples of straightforward and simple solutions for the community’s actual challenges and needs as a statement criticising bureaucratic barriers.

What happens if the project is realised?

This summary will assist us, designers, as a tool to introduce our initial ideas within the context of the Kilburn Grange Park community.

YAY! NOW I CAN PEE IN THE PARK!

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TOILET!

BARBEQUE SPACES ARE NOW AVALABLE IN THE PARK!

MORE PICNICS!

WE CAN PREPARE OUR FOOD IN THE PARK!

WE CAN SOCIALIZE AND EAT TOGETHER!

The summary of the third stage community engagements

SUMMER 2024

The final stage is an abstract representation of our ideas for a pop-up project in Kilburn Grange Park based on our findings in stage I and II.

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KILBURN GRANGE PARK

STAGE III IMPLEMENTING IDEAS

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ONGOING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

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Simple interventions proposed for Kilburn Grange Park

POP - UP MANUAL IMPLEMENTABLE BY THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

BUILD A POP-UP

Who is the Manual for?

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This manual is designed for members of the Kilburn community. The manual contains interventions devised from reasearch and testing phases carried out with the users of the Kilburn Grange Park.

The manual makes an attempt to provide a framework for members of this community to build the interventions and modify them as their needs change. The pop-ups are designed to be maintained and run by the Kilburn community.

SMALL SCALE COMMUNITY PROJECTS

The interventions are designed as pop-ups that will be present in the park for a duration of two weeks, on the conditions that the funding and planning permissions from the council are met in the timeframe provided in the timeline.

KILBURN GRANGE PARK LONDON

The pop-up can be seen as a testing phase for making these intereventions a more permanent feature in the Kilburn Grange Park

1. BUILD A TOILET

The design interventions presented in this manual are based on a modular design to make the project adaptable to accommodate different functions as they change over time.

1x Module [1200mm x 1200mm]

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Additionally, as an exploration for more possible pop-up projects in Kilburn Grange Park, the following examples show how the module The size of a single module is 1200mmx1200mm. can work if extended.

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The 3xmodule illustrates the example of the barbecue space The is a dry composting toilet that a separator The toilet 4xmodule illustrates the example of uses the seating area. for liquids and solids. This type of toilet is an affordable,biodegradable option that works well in outdoor spaces. The compost can be used in the park and the community garden as natural fertilizer. For the purpose of this intervention, the toilet stands for two weeks as a pop-up, but can be fixture in the that parkuses if theausers respond well to the Themade toiletaispermanent a dry composting toilet separator intervention. for liquids and solids. This type of toilet is an affordable,biodegradable

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option that works well in outdoor spaces. The compost can be used in the park and the community garden as natural fertilizer. For the purpose of this intervention, the toilet stands for two weeks as a pop-up, but can be made a permanent fixture in the park if the users respond well to the intervention.

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The 4xmodule: Example of the seating area

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In the pop-up manual we have covered the construction stages as well as maintenance and cleaning instructions, an almost complete manual for the community to build and sustain the units as a pop-up project.

1xModule

The size of a single module is 1200mmx1200mm.

[1200mm x 1200mm]

These have been designed to be extendable to accomodate different functions as they change over time. The following examples show how the module can work if extended.

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Lay Wooden Planks for Flooring:

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Concrete The 3xmodule illustrates the example of the barbecue space [150mmx150mmx75mm] 4xmodule illustrates the example of the seating 4x area.

1. TheFoundation 1x 10kg bag of concrete 1200 Timber The toilet is a dry composting toilet that uses a separator for liquids and solids. This type of toilet is an affordable,biodegradable

that works well in outdoor spaces. The compost can be used in 2. option Columns 4x [47mm x 100mm x 2250mm]

1200mmx100mmx19mm

this intervention, the toilet stands for two weeks as a pop-up, but can 3. of Flooring Framework 4x [47mm x 50mm x 1200mm] be made a permanent fixture in the park if the users respond well to the intervention.

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Solids Container: 22L

CLEANING & DISPOSAL 12.5

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The toilet has to be used inHOURS a seated position.

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HOURS 10 TONNES

12.5 12.5 HOURS HOURS Please use taps in park to wash hands.

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12.5 HOURS

1.

Cleaning and disposal should be done by members of Kilburn Community.

2.

The liquid-waste can be used as a fertilizer for plants.

3.

The solid-waste are collected in a bucket and emptied every few weeks on to a compost heap, after it reaches a maximum of 10 tonnes.

10 TONNES

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12.5

3.

Lay Foundation Beds: 150mmx150mm

The toilet can be10 TONNES used only during the opening hours of the Kilburn Grange Park (7:30am-8pm)

4.

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Clean the toilet with citric acid powder.*

9. Grab bar

BUILD A BARBECUE

MAINTENANCE

Pre-Made 8. Curtain & Curtain Rod

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Floor & Walls 5. Flooring Framework

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1xModule

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The 1xmodule has been used to illustrate the example of the toilet.

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functions as they change over time. The following examples show how the module can work if extended.

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Based on the findings in the first stages of this project in Kilburn Grange Park, the main intervention is a community-built toilet unit as will be presented later in this manual.

The 1xmodule has been used to illustrate the example of the toilet.

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The idea of the pop-up project is to empower people of the community to build the design interventions and modify them if their needs change.

As a result, based upon the proposal, we came up with a modular-based design. The single module unit has been designed as a ttoilet, oilet with the possibility of the units’ expansion to accommodate various functions. For example, the 3 and 4 module units can be proposed as a barbecue barb e c u e space and seating s e a t iarea. ng area

Modular-Based Design

Liquids Container: 10L

1x [1400mm x 1400mm x 5mm]

Box for sawdust

1x Curtain for entrance area 1x Curtain rod [1200mm long] 1x Grab Bar

What else can be made?

BUILDING A BARBECUE 1. The Barbecue pop-up is built by combining three 1200mmx1200mm modules.

2. They can be increased in size by adding a 1200mmx1200mm module.

3. This can be replicated in different parts of the park to accommodate more barbecue areas.

MAINTENANCE: 1. The grill is powered by charcoal.

2. All items for grilling to be brought by users, cleaned and taken back after their session.

3. The barbecue area can be used only during the opening hours of the Kilburn Grange Park (7:30am-8pm)

BUILD A SEATING AREA

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*Mix citric acid powder with water in the ratio 2tbsps:500ml.Pour into spray bottle for efficient use. Use only with latex gloves. ** Please read Guidance: Treating solid waste from composting toilets: LRWP 90, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lowrisk-waste-positions-effluent-and-sludge/treating-solid-waste-from-composting-toilets-lrwp-90)

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4xModule

[1200mm x 1200mm]

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What else can be made?

BUILDING A SEATING AREA 1. The Seating Area pop-up is built by combining four 1200mmx1200mm modules.

2. They can be increased in size by adding a 1200mmx1200mm module.

3. All the furniture is modelled around the columns so as to keep it secure 4. This can be replicated in different parts of the park to accommodate more covered seating areas.

MAINTENANCE: 1. No grilling should be done in covered seating areas 3. The seating area can be used only during the opening hours of the Kilburn Grange Park (7:30am-8pm)

YOUR FEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT TO US! kilburngrangepark.conversations@gmail.com

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Curtain for Entrance to Toilet

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Cleaning and disposal should be done by members of Kilburn Community.

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The liquid-waste can be used as a fertilizer for plants.

12.5 12.5 HOURS HOURS Please use taps in park to wash hands.

3.

The solid-waste are collected in a bucket and emptied every few weeks on to a compost heap, after it reaches a maximum of 10 tonnes.

The toilet can be used only during the opening hours

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CLEANING & DISPOSAL

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of the Kilburn Grange Park (7:30am-8pm)

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Clean the toilet with citric acid powder.*

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BUILD A TOILET

The model made in 1.10 scale to present the design of the community toilet

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construction

COMPOSTING TOILET

1xModule [1200mm x 1200mm]

The toilet is a dry composting toilet that uses a separator for liquid and solid waste. This type of toilet is an affordable, biodegradable option that works well in outdoor spaces.

Concrete 1. Foundation

4x [150mmx150mmx75mm] 1x 10kg bag of concrete

The compost can be used in the park and the community garden as natural fertilizer. For the purpose of this intervention, the toilet stands for two weeks as a pop-up, but can be made a permanent fixture in the park if the users respond well to the intervention.

Timber 2. Columns

4x [47mm x 100mm x 2250mm]

3. Flooring Framework

4x [47mm x 50mm x 1200mm]

4. Planks for

12x [100mm x 1200mm x 19mm]

Floor & Walls

57x [100mm x 1200mm x 19mm]

5. Flooring Framework

4x [47mm x 50mm x 1200mm]

6. Roofing Rafters

8x [1400mm x 75mm x 19mm]

Composting toilet separator

Solids Container: 22L

Metal 7. Corrugated Sheet for Roofin

Pre-Made 8. Curtain & Curtain Rod 9. Grab bar

Liquids Container: 10L

1x [1400mm x 1400mm x 5mm]

1x Curtain for entrance area 1x Curtain rod [1200mm long] 1x Grab Bar

Box for sawdust

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S E C O N D A RY O U T P U T EXPANDABLE CONFIGURATION

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BUILD A BARBECUE

What else can be made?

Further extension Barbecue

BUILDING A BARBECUE 1. The Barbecue pop-up is built by combining three 1200mmx1200mm modules.

2. They can be increased in size by adding a 1200mmx1200mm module.

3. This can be replicated in different parts of the park to accommodate more barbecue areas.

MAINTENANCE: 1. The grill is powered by charcoal.

2. All items for grilling to be brought by users, cleaned and taken back after their session.

3. The barbecue area can be used only during the opening hours of the Kilburn Grange Park (7:30am-8pm)

3xModule

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BUILD A SEATING AREA

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What else can be made?

4xModule [1200mm x 1200mm]

BUILDING A SEATING AREA 1. The Seating Area pop-up is built by combining four 1200mmx1200mm modules.

2. They can be increased in size by adding a 1200mmx1200mm module.

3. All the furniture is modelled around the columns so as to keep it secure 4. This can be replicated in different parts of the park to accommodate more covered seating areas.

MAINTENANCE: 1. No grilling should be done in covered seating areas 3. The seating area can be used only during the opening hours of the Kilburn Grange Park (7:30am-8pm)

Seating Area

42 Documentation of the Pop - Up Manual

[1200mm x 1200mm]

43 Selection of the Pop-up Manual Pages Toilet Manifesto

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Inclusive Events and Language

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Transparency and Clarity

Time and Resources

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Design interventions especially if they involve a community’s collaboration are inescapably political. What started off as an ambitious community project to produce social processes to reinvent, maintain and reproduce the commons, became the documentation of an experimental process based on political and social challenges.

Co-design in Every Stages

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CONCLUSION

To conclude this self-critical process, we assessed our work based on the ethics of co-design7 to update the Plan of Work manual with a new focus on co-design principals and community’s active participations. As mentioned earlier, the project never ends, it’s a repeating cycle and the ending point, can be just another beginning.

44 Co-Design Ethics Assessment

The project’s stages in relation to co-design principles

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(Sendra, The ethics of co-design 2023)

Local Partnerships

Collective Thinking

45 The Interactive Model

An assembled version of the model with respect to all the stages

46 The Interactive Model

Different outputs from different stages of the project

F U RT H E R L I N K S instagram PROJECT CHANNEL https://www.instagram.com/kilburngrangeparkconversations/ youtube OVERHEAD COMMUNITY TALK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pOuU1zdyO4 STOP MOTION VIDEO MODEL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hj-DoetN6c

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