Connected Communities: Creative Placemaking, Penzance

Crow, Frances (2016) Connected Communities: Creative Placemaking, Penzance. In: Creative Placemaking, 9 June 2016, The Exchange, Penzance, UK.

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Abstract / Summary

Connected Communities: Creative Placemaking, Penzance was a Pecha Kucha presentation, written and presented by Frances Crow, as part of The Exchange, Penzance Creative Placemaking workshop on 9 June 2016.

The presentation covered the research work that was carried out under the research platform Architecture Making Community conveyed an approach to live project teaching using the Connected Communities: Penryn participatory design workshop as a case study project.

Following the presentation the Penzance Town Manager worked with Frances Crow and Tom Ebdon to develop a design project that responded to issues raised in the Penzance Neighbourhood Plan. In January 2017 the third year architecture students worked on a site in Penzance to develop a cultural quarter. The Exchange, Penzance worked closely with the students to develop a brief for the project and provided feedback as the student projects developed.

Connected Communities is a two day public workshop that uses participatory design practices to look at ways of connecting disparate communities within towns, and considers possible futures for their town centres. The inaugural Connected Communities workshop was created in Penryn by Frances Crow as part of the Architecture Making Community research project, in partnership with Penryn Town Team.

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