UrbanBuzz
Building sustainable communities
CD-G WORKSHOPS
Project title
Project summary
Collaborative design – gateway workshop
There is no established way to employ specific
methods of designing with community participation
in the Thames Gateway. Currently, applied
architectural design methods open up knowledge
transfer gaps between planners, designers and
users because of their predetermined processes
and outcomes.
Lead organisation
UEL
Project coordinator
Christoph Hadrys
Contact details
T: 0208 223 3237
c.hadrys@uel.ac.uk
Website
www.urbanbuzz.org
Project value*
£8,922 grant, plus £7,609 contribution in kind
Start/end dates*
1/5/08 to 31/7/08
Project partners*
ARUP; AZ URBAN STUDIO; CHCTRT
(Canning Town Regeneration); CABE
UrbanBuzz Project Monitor
Gemma Moore
gemma.moore@ucl.ac.uk
*subject to finalising contract at time of printing
This project will help to enhance knowledge
transfer by enabling an innovative and adventurous
community workshop to test, demonstrate
and communicate suitable methods through
collaborative expert guidance, community
engagement and publications.
The project will bring critical urban designers,
planners, developers and academics together
with key local communities. They will have the
opportunity to explore innovative potentials of
collaborative design by playing through scenarios,
acceptance and feasibility. The project will be
delivered over 3 workshop events, with several
working groups at UEL Docklands Campus in
summer 2008.
The work has a range of scales, from urban
interventions to buildings and their components.
The work is set-up to specifically address design,
decision making, building and management in
community participation.
As a local case study, the CD-G Workshop’s open
results will be published with texts, visuals, film,
physical and computational models in real and virtual
exhibitions, as well as mainstream media and
focused press.