Live projects:

As part of a DfT funded Coronavirus response we're supporting Be First and LBBD to identify and deliver a trial of emergency measures to tackle speeding, cut-through traffic and make it safer to walk and cycle in residential streets between Parsloes Park and Porters Avenue. For more info check out Safe Streets Becontree on Facebook.

We've been collaborating with architectural & design practice If_DO on an Innovate UK funded research project exploring how we can adapt our public spaces and places to support the recovery of our town centres following Covid 19.

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 the Fiddlers in Becontree Heath as part of a GLA funded Low Emission Neighbourhood. Greening the Fiddlers will work with residents to reduce traffic dominance, improve air quality and create more welcoming & inclusive public spaces in the neighbourhood.

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 and The National Lottery Community Fund. Click for more information.

This is a new network for people in Barking interested in all things place, space and community. Everyone welcome, check out our Eventbrite page for more details or our next event. All welcome!

Colour in Marks Gate is a new project funded by North Meets South Big Local in Chadwell Heath. With residents we'll identify unloved corners and spaces in the neighbourhood and work together, using colour and craft to bring some joy!

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 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.

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.

Project history:

Street Space was privileged to work alongside 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 partnered with award-winning architects IF_DO and members of Enfield Methodist Church to deliver embedded community engagement, outreach and collaborative design to support the delivery of a a new community space for Elsinge, Enfield.

Barking: IN YOUR WORDS was a collaboration to crowdsource popular phrases and words heard on the street in Barking. Did you spot the brightly coloured pavement messages around town during the IG11 Art Trail 2019?

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

Commissioned by the Inclusive Growth team at London Borough of Barking and Dagenham we developed and delivered community listening and engagement across the borough to explore and understand perceptions, attitudes and concerns around 'growth' in the borough.

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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