There is £25m on the line to re-build the station site where Rana works: to turn a collection of arches – housing market stalls, small restaurants, builders’ yards and barbers – and a gloomy shopping arcade into a new “gateway” to Peckham and public square for the community. And now the council is looking to the secret expertise of locals to tell them how to do it. “Co-design” aims to reveal the community’s invaluable stock of daily knowledge and insight into their surroundings, explains Katerina Alexiou, a lecturer in design at the Open University. “Local people have knowledge which often experts don’t have,” says Alexiou. “They are experts in knowing how their area works, what it needs, how it needs to be developed.” (theguardian/cities/2014/jul/21/codesign-help-peckham-community-consultation-failed)
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:42:13 +0000
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