Designing Communities

Getting everyone around the table to co-design a better future, Camborne, Pool, Redruth (CPR) Regeneration, has commissioned Dott to work with local residents and service providers to identify potential new community services designed to bring about positive changes.

Designing Communities is based in Pengegon, Camborne – a neighbourhood named in the top 5% of the country’s most deprived areas. A neighbourhood that has been consulted by support agencies and received investment, but that has been described as ‘hard to reach’ and still has many complex, unmet needs. CPR Regeneration decided to employ the Dott process to better understand some of the issues affecting local residents of the Pengegon Estate. We are asking the question ‘What kind of community facilities and services would improve your lives?’ By working with a clearer picture of their needs, possible solutions are coming to light.

Update:

15th June 2010: Co-design Workshop

The best bit of the day for me was when all the children arrived after school and got busy drawing floor plans and making a community centre out of cake & sweets! This gave me an opportunity to talk to some of the mum’s about the idea of a community centre reward card / loyalty scheme which they thought would work really well. The basic idea being that residents could exchange volunteer time for points that they could cash in for things like cinema tickets, food, electrical goods, travel vouchers etc.

During the workshop everyone decided that the building should be:

ACCESSIBLE, INCLUSIVE, INSPIRING, FRIENDLY, UNDERSTATED, PRACTICAL, FLEXIBLE, INNOVATIVE, SUSTAINABLE, ECO friendly and in keeping the the local environment.

1st June 2010: Designing a better community

Visit this link to read about the Designing Communities project on the Sea Communications website.

A clipping from the Sea Communications website

1st March 2010: Pengegon Community Films

As part of the co-discover phase, we have made several short films with community groups, enabling them to share their thoughts and voice their opinion regarding a possible new community centre in the heart of their housing estate.

This film was made at the Pengegon Christmas Party: