Who We Are
Cross-pollination: Growing cross-sector design collaboration in placemaking (Jan 2022-Jan 2023), is a knowledge exchange project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under their Place programme The project is a collaboration between The Open University and national charity The Glass-House Community Led Design, working in partnership with the Glasgow Urban Lab, locally-based partners in Merthyr Tydfil, and Clapham Junction in London.
The project aims to scale up collaboration by providing spaces and mechanisms that can enable and empower placemaking actors (local authorities, civic sector organisations, community groups, academic institutions, cultural institutions and businesses) to incubate cross-sector collaborative design initiatives in local areas.
The approach used (cross-pollination) was developed and tested in a variety of research-based and practice-based projects in different settings and has proved successful in bringing people together to create a sharing economy of assets (human, economic, cultural, social) as a basis for forming partnerships with the capacity to lead design initiatives.
The project aims to scale up collaboration by providing spaces and mechanisms that can enable and empower placemaking actors (local authorities, civic sector organisations, community groups, academic institutions, cultural institutions and businesses) to incubate cross-sector collaborative design initiatives in local areas.
The approach used (cross-pollination) was developed and tested in a variety of research-based and practice-based projects in different settings and has proved successful in bringing people together to create a sharing economy of assets (human, economic, cultural, social) as a basis for forming partnerships with the capacity to lead design initiatives.
Meet the team
The Open University
Katerina Alexiou (PI), Senior Lecturer in Design
Theodore Zamenopoulos (Co-I), Professor of Citizen-led Design
Vera Hale (Co-I), Lecturer in Design
The Glass-House Community Led Design
Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive
Elly Mead, Design Champion
Jake Stephenson-Bartley, Design Champion
Glasgow Urban Lab
Brian Evans, Professor of Urbanism & Landscape, Glasgow School of Art and CityUrbanist\Glasgow
Merthyr Tydfill Council
Lee Davies, Chair of Regeneration and Public Protection Scrutiny Committee
Clapham Junction BID
Michael Judd, Acting Chair
Katerina Alexiou (PI), Senior Lecturer in Design
Theodore Zamenopoulos (Co-I), Professor of Citizen-led Design
Vera Hale (Co-I), Lecturer in Design
The Glass-House Community Led Design
Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive
Elly Mead, Design Champion
Jake Stephenson-Bartley, Design Champion
Glasgow Urban Lab
Brian Evans, Professor of Urbanism & Landscape, Glasgow School of Art and CityUrbanist\Glasgow
Merthyr Tydfill Council
Lee Davies, Chair of Regeneration and Public Protection Scrutiny Committee
Clapham Junction BID
Michael Judd, Acting Chair
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