"Working with user-clients means working with people who stand to gain directly from getting involved in making changes to the places where they live"

Andrew Siddall

Community engagement

Put yourself at the centre of the design process

We consistently place the user at the centre of the design process. We do this because we believe that effective community engagement can lead to diverse and individual results, and that these results are better for being idiosyncratic of user involvement. We endeavour to raise the status of the users’ aspirational needs in the design process, not just their technical and functional requirements. This means enabling people to answer questions like “what does this design say about me?”. Then we link step-by-step education about the design process, with direct opportunities for people to get involved in physical regeneration projects.

Get help from civic to:

• Get skilled up and ask the right questions
• Grow your own community support base
• Get people to participate in the design process
• Make the process enlightening and creative
• Capitalise on the learning oportunities for people