Winner of 'Excellence in Community Engagement' award by the Landscape Institute

I was appointed as Community Engagement and Design Partner on a freelance consultant basis by Edinburgh Living Lab in 2019 to lead, design and deliver inclusive community engagement activities targeting diverse local neighbourhood stakeholders using a mix of co-design, neighbourhood planning and communication strategies as part of this new process and research, within the interdisciplinary project team.

This formed part of an integrated innovative project approach that simultaneously interwove design and engagement activities (based on local resident and service users' experiences, values and future aspirations) with learnings from data analysis of buildings, public spaces and neighbourhood usage patterns, to provide a robust data and community-driven evidence base to support complex neighbourhood level decision-making.

This novel methodology championed by Edinburgh Living Lab combined data science, urban design and place planning, community engagement, service design and futures approaches to result in replicable guidelines and template engagement resources (including bespoke hand-built physical exhibition display and graphics) for streamlined re-use of this data-and-design process in other areas of the city, as well as provision to City of Edinburgh Council of considerations for the future of public buildings and spaces in this specific neighbourhood via a summary report.

The Landscape Institute hosted an online edition of the 2020 Awards ceremony on Thursday 26 November. *This blog has been updated to reflect my winning of this award*

Read a summary of the work that won the award via the Landscape Institute’s case study library here. Or find out more about my other projects and work.