Throughout 2012 the PROUD project worked with City and County Councils to co-design the space beyond Lancaster’s castle. Public Realm Officer for Lancaster City Council Helen Ryan saw the value that the visual creative tools we developed brought to the process as they helped to attract people and draw them into the creative part of the planning process. So we agreed to collaborate with Helen to create a toolkit of innovative consultation tools. This project follows the development, prototyping, testing and refining of the toolkit from ideation to realisation throughout 2013-14.
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2nd and 3rd Prototype tests for the Zoners
In discussion with Helen, after the 1st test we decided not to design a cover for the metal ground pins available at the Council
Final handover of the Creative Consultation Tools
This project presented both a significant challenge and a distinct learning curve. However, the final products are the strong and successful result of the careful consideration the team put into every aspect of these tools
Refining the tools for production – Successes, tricky decisions and compromises
The successes at this point included progress made on the commenters. We had refined the notch design to ensure the shapes were a usable size which didn’t interfere with an A6 card when they interlocked
Dutch Design Week
Our principal feeling about Dutch Design Week is that Eindhoven is a playground for ideas skilfully made reality. The festival explored what design practice could be in myriad ways as well as showing how people could choose to practice together
Tools Prototype Test
With the prototypes and designs ready for testing, the full project team met to review the progress. We gave a re-cap of the work completed so far, talking Helen, Leon and Gemma through our design process and the thinking behind the prototypes
Developing the Prototypes
Since the last meeting, the process of generating ideas, developing and producing tools the team can experiment and play with has moved quickly and yielded unexpected results
Consultation Tool Co-Design
The PROUD project in the UK is taking an exciting new direction. After the rather intense, highly designed activities of Beyond the Castle we were looking for a different kind of challenge
What tools and why? Co-designing the brief
Together with Leon and Gemma from PROUD we met with Helen Ryan, Public Realm Officer at Lancaster City Council, on Friday morning. Having revisited the key ideas identified for potential development in July, we spent the morning exploring what Helen considered most important about using the tools, and separating ideal-luxury elements from those she considers an absolute necessity