London National Park City Rangers

Cross-pollination with the Open University and Glass-House Community Led Design

As part the ongoing collaboration with teams at Open University and Glass-House Community Led Design as part of their their knowledge exchange research project Cross-pollination: Growing cross-sector design collaboration in placemaking, I joined them once again to document one of their cross-pollination workshops, this time with the brilliant London National Park City (LNPC). The project has been exploring how they can scale up collaboration at a local level by providing spaces and mechanisms to enable and empower local people, authorities, organisations, groups and communities to create and incubate collaboration across and between sectors. LNPC is a grassroots grassroots movement aiming to make London greener, healthier and wilder. They support a network of locally based Rangers across the city to connect and support thousands of people leading change in their own neighbourhoods.

The cross-pollination session with LNPC rangers was a way to share resources and ideas across areas, and teach the method to new people in order to give them the confidence to run cross-pollination sessions in their own areas to generate collaborative responses to place-making.

The work was completed as part of a Knowledge Exchange project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Place Programme, led by The Open University and The Glass-House Community Led Design.