Award winning social and sustainable design
Making nature and rewilding design
Collaborative projects with global industries, local communities & international NGOs
Making Research: materials and making for social & sustainable development
Engaging Design: creative interventions for social engagement
Virtuous Circular Economies: material cycles of cultural meaning and value
Digi-tools: technology tools for social empowerment and inclusion

Making Nature

Can makers enhance biodiversity through their practices?

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Future of Design

We host a workshop for The Design Council's 75th Anniversary

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Celebrity wild visitor

A super rare bird drops in to mark 10 years of community wildlife space

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Circular Cultures Athens

Nick delivers keynote and workshop to academics and industrial designers for British Council and Onassis Foundation in Athens

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A Place-Maker-Space for Newhaven Fort

We create a 'pop-up' exhibition and creative engagement space for envisioning a new future for this historic building.

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Woods to Outcomes

Forestry Commission Innovation Grant funds research into local timber products for social housing

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AHRC / Design Museum Future Observatory

We help a successful jewellery design SME routemap to NetZero+

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Circular City

We create an exhibition of waste resources for FutureBuild

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Re-Making Material Meanings

'Sole Searching' explores elevating the social and cultural value of waste

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Place-Maker-Space Brighton

Community21 creates an 'urban room' for Brighton

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Virtuous Circular Economies

British Council funds phase two of collaborative community maker-space in South Africa with Dreamcatcher

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Re-making-well

We use recycling to support health and well-being in a care-home garden.

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On Our Doorsteps - Local Design Activism

A mini festival of collaborative making exploring design & localism and 'making' community culture. #Crafting communities.

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Circular Design Lab

Ellen MacArthur and British Council co-learning programme with creatives from 10 African Countries

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Waste Opportunities

Buildings as materials stores and material stories. Community21 map city resources for EU social housing project.

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Young Digital Citizenship

Engaging young people in local politics and neighbourhood planning using accessible technology.

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Award winning community recycling and re-use centre 2004

This former bus depot is turned into hub for social and sustainable development.

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WasteHouse

Community21 team help create the famous house made from waste.

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Beach waste into 'Flip-flops'

This community clean up project from 2011 with The Marine Conservation Society looks at people, pollution, plastics, provence, product and place.

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Den Building

Promoting intergenerational exchange and engagement with the natural environment through co-designed and sustainable recreational spaces.

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Your village in 2061!

Intergenerational envisioning of the future village by remembering the past.

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Wiki-Waste-Workshop

Using waste and remote internet co-learning to empower sustainable development in developing communities in South Africa and Asia.

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Product Life Workshop

Exploring our social and cultural relationships to products and extending their lifespans.

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Everyday Creativity

We develop a COVID response project supporting well-being in care workers for Public Health.

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Marriage of Materials

Exploring cultural value of collaborative material compositions

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Digital community planning tools

Supporting community led development and neighbourhood planning

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Meaning Making at PUMA

We present waste materials research to fashion and sportswear industry

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Prismex Furniture

Pioneering technology we launched with Philips and Perspex in 1999 promotes ultra energy efficiency

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Design disassembly and circularity

This body of industrial product design work from 1999-2002 focuses on energy and production efficiency of plastics.

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100% Sustainable 2008 'Models of Sustainable Design'

Information experience space asks industrial community what are the models for sustainable design.

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Envisioning the living city 2030

Stakeholder engagement and mapping workshop for Brighton and Hove City Council policy teams.

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Widening Participation

Co-designing innovative engagement tools for The National Collaborative Outreach Programme

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Well-Making at the Wellcome Trust

This AHRC funded workshop brings healthcare practitioners, makers from academic and practice fields

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Bright-space 2004

Paper thin buildings: Origami geo-dome cold-formed from 100% recycled plastics

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Re-wilding the City

Engaging the public in urban nature and wildlife in the city centre!

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Designing Resilience

Co-producing tools for promoting resilience and well-being in young people with complex needs

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100% Sustainable 2007

Engaging industry on a village green at London Design Festival.

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