Daisy Froud, AOC Architecture Ltd, Sebastião de Botton, Colectivo Warehouse, and Mhairi McVicar , Community Gateway, joined for conversation relating to techniques of engagement / co-creation.
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Daisy Froud is a strategist specialising in ‘community engagement’ and participatory design, with a particular focus on collaborative and deliberative decision-making. Having started her career in environmental campaigning and community-led regeneration, from 2003 to 2014 Daisy was a founding director of architecture practice AOC and in 2014 was shortlisted for The AJ’s Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award. She is a Teaching Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where she lectures on the history and theory of spatial politics, and a Mayoral Design Advocate, advising on community engagement, to the Mayor of London.
Warehouse is an architecture and art collective founded in 2013. In our search for what architecture is nowadays and what role the architects play, Warehouse fundaments its architectural praxis through design, experimentation, mediation, civic participation processes, collaboration and practical intervention. Warehouse develops participatory architecture projects in the cultural and social scope. These processes lead to results with greater impact in the emerging urban landscape. Warehouse seeks to contribute to the collective and responsible construction of the public and private space. We understand the role of the architect as a mediator, aware of the impact that urban space activation initiatives and social interventions have with the communities that inhabit the city. The idiosyncratic factor of the collective is its ability to design and build their own projects. Hands-on approach is transversal in our practice. Warehouse develops collaborative projects because we believe that through co-creation and multidisciplinary, it’s possible to achieve better results.
see http://warehouse.pt/about/
Dr Mhairi McVicar is Project Lead of Community Gateway, overseeing a community-university engagement platform through a team who facilitate over 50 partnership projects between Grangetown and Cardiff University, including the £1.6 million community-led partnership redevelopment of a vacant civic building. She joined WSA in 2006, following practice in the USA and UK. Is an RIBA Affiliate member, former Chair of Design Circle RSAW South, having acted as juror on the RIBA President's Medal for Dissertations and the National Eisteddfod Gold Medal for Architecture, and co-ordinated several national architectural exhibitions. In 2017, Community Gateway was awarded the Professor Sir David Watson international award, and Mhairi received Leading Wales' Leadership in the Public Sector award.