Thom Brisco of Brisco Loran talks about Costa’s Barbers, a live-work shopfront which triumphed in the Project under £500,000 category at the AJ Architecture Awards last week
IF_DO founder Sarah Castle explains that community engagement is not just asking people what they want but also what they can do
Ling Tan and Usman Haque, of emerging design studio HAQUE TAN, discuss the possibilites of AI and how they collaborated with children to co-create a new entrance for Great Ormond Street Hospital
Co-design has become a buzzword, used widely by architects and developers – but not always accurately. Gino Spocchia reports on what true community empowerment looks like
Turner Works has won Bristol City Council’s competition to create a community-inspired ‘place shaping’ vision for its 40ha Western Harbour regeneration zone
Dinah Bornat explains the thinking behind a new toolkit that puts child and youth-friendly design at the forefront of the masterplan vision
Broadway Malyan’s Monique Suksmaningsih explains how the practice is helping to redevelop a red-light district in Indonesia without alienating the existing community
We Made That describes itself as ‘an energetic research, urbanism and architecture practice with a strong public conscience’
Studio Gil champions under-represented groups and looks to translate their needs into spatial and architectural requirements
RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges
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