See some of our projects and examples of how communities, organisations and industry have worked with Community21

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-publicing the Public House

Co-making products to promote diverse publics of the community pub.

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'Labels'

Diversifying access to higher education whilst exploring personal identity through fashion.

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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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Community Energy Plan

How to get a community more energy resilient?

This project led by local volunteers and community practitioners, uses Community21 to map energy assets and resources and visualisation tools to help build trust and educate local people about green energy solutions and resilience.

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100% Sustainable 2007

Engaging industry on a village green at London Design Festival.

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