Designed Managed Retreat: Coastal Communities in the Green Transition
For this project POoR worked with the Royal College of Art to develop a new toolkit to help local communities deal with net zero design challenges arising from a managed retreat from coastal areas affected by long-term climate change impacts and sea-level rise. As part of the project POoR delivered a workshop with local people from Hull asking them to share their experiences with flooding in their area.
By 2050, the current protection of around a third of England’s shoreline is expected to be financially unviable or unsustainable due to climate change accelerating sea-level rise and coastal erosion.
This project engages with the question of loss and damage from a social and cultural perspective related to the protection, relocation and preservation of spaces of social and historical significance. Specifically, it deals with the question of how forced transformational change creates not just a loss but also new opportunities for design to preserve, rethink and create new tangible community assets.
Client: Design Museum
Location: Hull
Status: Complete
Sector: Programme
Procurement: Public
Team: Royal College of Art, Benjamin Mehigan, Adrian Lahoud, Sam Jacobs
As part of the Bexleyheath High Streets For All project, we developed a programme to help young people develop creative thinking, design, and entrepreneurship skills. The Youth Enterprise programme was a competition that taught students both business and marketing skills through a series of 2-hour workshops. During these sessions, students designed tote bags, card games, and T-shirts that they sold at Bexleyheath Night Market. All the participants kept the money they earned when they sold their products at the market.
Client: Bexleyheath Council
Location: South-East London
Status: Complete
Sector: Programme
Procurement: Public
Team: We Made That, Bexleyheath BID, Bohemia Place Market, Bexleyheath Night Market, Townley Grammar, St Catherine’s Catholic School, St Columba’s Catholic Boys School, Bexleyheath Academy
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