Cross-Pollination
Growing cross-sector design collaboration in placemaking
While the Cross-pollination project funding under the Place Programme has officially come to an end, activity has not paused and the project's legacy is continuing to grow. The Cross-pollination team facilitated two cross-pollination workshops in the autumn of 2023 in two new locations in England. Each partner received a cross-pollination box, containing all the cross-pollination materials (the cross-pollination cards, the cross-pollination resource pack and a number of useful stationery items) necessary to facilitate further discussions and collaborations. The first workshop, in partnership with Holborn Community Association (HCA) brought together residents and various organisations active in this area of West Central London to initiate a fruitful conversation about planning, development and construction. You can read the post by the HCA Director, Paul Crozier, on The Glass-House Community Led Design blog: People Shaping Place. The second workshop was in partnership with Chichester Community Development Trust (CCDT), with whom we have worked before as part of a project called Empowering Design Practices in 2017. Back then, our collaboration was focussed on supporting plans for developing the historic Graylingwell Chapel as a resource for the local community (watch the story of Graylingwell Chapel). This time however, the aim was to use the cross-pollination approach in order to activate cross-sector collaboration across the district. You can read the post by the Head of Partnerships at CCDT, Claire Robinson, on The Glass-House Community Led Design blog: Connecting the Community Champions. These examples alongside all the ones we previously shared serve to show that cross-pollination can not only help incubate cross-sector collaboration in different contexts, and in a diversity of places nationally, but it can also support more long term plans, enhancing what is already happening, often reinvigorating connections, sparking new ideas and building confidence, to support the creation of meaningful and sustainable places.
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