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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World Crafts Council General Assembly

Invited as UK representative at global symposia relating to to Craft Industry and Circular Economies.

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City of Glasgow 'Place' Commission 2020

Nick has been invited by Glasgow City Council and City Urbanist to workshop engagement in the city.

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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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Paradise lost - plastics and tourism conference

Keynote talk to the tourist boards of Latin American countries about addressing plastic pollution.

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Co-creating Cities and Communities July 2017

Presenting our co-creative envisioning tools at The Connected Communities conference.

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Finalists in The National Green Gown Awards!

Proud to have been selected as a finalist in this prestigious UK and Ireland awards process that celebrates sustainability initiatives in education.

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Wiki-Waste-Workshop goes global

Our knowledge exchange network turning waste into sustainable opportunities grows locally and globally

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Community21 meet Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg February 2015

Our Talking-Town-Tapestry gets shown by invitation to the Deputy Prime Minister

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Nick presents to Government departments May 2016

Community21 founder presents our engagement tools to Cabinet Office and DCLG teams.

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Pub-products at the Bevy Community Pub February 2017

Students from 3D Design and Craft help us create products for the Bevy Pub Brighton (first community owned pub on a social housing estate in the UK).

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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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Celebrating the Community Pub

Re-publicing the public house. Our creative student and staff team help out celebrating the Uk's first community pub on a social housing estate.

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Inclusive community consultation

Do you have a community project, issue, opportunity or plan you would like to creatively develop? We would like to hear from you.

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Local Legends article

Community21 founder Nick Gant and graduate Joe Palmer talk Place-Making with a capitol 'M'

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Over 120 community visions created by young citizens in 4 days!

Got to be a record for a neighbourhood plan!? Our creative community workshop in the County Town of Lewes

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Child to Parent Violence and Abuse Mapping Pilot Project

When a group of academics, practitioners and campaigners, working in the field of children’s violence and abuse towards their parents, were looking for a platform for a project to map specialist provision around the country, the Community21 site ticked all the boxes.

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Mapping the sustainable city

Check out all the community eco-initiatives happening in the city centre of Brighton gathered using our bespoke mapping tool. Thanks to Brighton folks and the students of the community ecology module for getting it started!

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Designing Resilience June 2016

Presenting resilience tools at the AHRC Utopia Festival at Somerset House London

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'Well-Making' workshop at EU Design Days Brussels. September 2016.

Nick takes the notion of maker-spaces for community health provision to a prestigious EU workshop.

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We are moving in! Watch this 'Place-Maker-Space' December 2015

Community21 is developing a Place-Maker-Space in the centre of Brighton. A community hub and urban lab for envisioning community futures.

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International Community Mapping Exchange September 2015

Community21 and The Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) bring together local and global community mappers to plan networking.

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Designing Resilience community event November 2015

Community21 have teamed up with Boing Boing and young people from across the country to collaboratively design resilience tools.

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Envisioning the city event June 2015

Young and older people from the city centre community come together to envision the future of the Valley Gardens area of Brighton.

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Biosphere Research Directory November 2015

Rich Howorth, part of the team at the UNESCO funded Brighton and Hove Biosphere project tells us all about his research directory on Community21.

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