Current projects:

Her Barking is a women led, place based project to collaboratively identify, design and test interventions to improve perceptions of safety in Barking Town Centre. Funded by a small grant from the Academy of Urbanism: Young Urbanists. Click for more information.

Street Space is supporting Collectively, providing expertise on engagement and prototyping for the Loneliness Lab - an 18 month project to develop and test ideas to tackle loneliness through shaping places and spaces in London. Funded by Lendlease.

Street Space is delighted to be working with local residents, Community Resources, London Sport and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to collaboratively design and co-ordinate a resident-led activation and ongoing legacy programme for the newly transformed Valence Park, Dagenham.

Street Space has been commissioned by Be First / London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to facilitate community engagement and collaborative design with residents living in and moving through Martin's Corner. We have developed initial design ideas and aspirations with local community members to submit to TfL as part of a Liveable Neighbourhood funding bid.

The Barking Bridge Project was initiated by local resident Tim Hunt who wanted to do something about the state of the two footbridges on Essex Road, Barking. Street Space are supporting Tim with additional community engagement and a collaborative bid for funding to transform the footbridges through community-led regeneration in partnership with LBBD and Studio 3 Arts.

Street Space is working with award-winning architects IF_DO and members of Enfield Methodist Church to develop and support the delivery of a comprehensive community engagement strategy. This strategy will be facilitated by locally embedded community engagement professionals and their research and connections will go on to underpin and inform the design of a new community space in Elsinge, Enfield.

Street Space has received funding from the Mayor of London to deliver 'All Roads Lead to Valence Park' an innovative outdoor gym 'activator' training programme and community-led wayfinding project.

This is a new network for people in Barking interested in all things place, space and community. Everyone welcome, check out our Facebook events for more details. First event: 17.10.19 at The Spotted Dog from 6pm. All welcome!

Barking: IN YOUR WORDS is a collaboration to crowdsource popular phrases and words heard on the street in Barking. Look out for the brightly coloured pavement messages around town during the ig11 Art Trail and use #barkinginyourwords to tag your pics or ideas.

Completed projects:

Community engagement and collaborative design, in and around the Fiddlers junction, Dagenham to inform future 'Healthy Street' transformation projects. Funded by Be First and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Community listening for Barking and Dagenham Renew to understand how outdoor spaces might foster social connection between existing and new residents on the Gascoigne estate, Barking.

Street Space were commissioned to co-develop and deliver a series of workshops on place-based prototyping and social innovation with the RSA Student Design Awards team as part of their 'Grand Station Design' award brief, in partnership with Network Rail.

Street Space were commissioned by the London Borough of Lambeth to work with students at Crowne Lane Primary to collaborative design interventions to improve busy walk to school routes.

Street Space were collaborators in a human centred design research project led by The Future Fox, funded by Innovate UK, to explore, scope and test ways to digitise the co-creation process.

Collaborating with shopkeepers and local residents, Street Space were the catalyst for acting on an idea to convert the unused land in the middle of a car park at the Fiddlers into space for a community Christmas Tree, complete with carol singing!

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