GROUNDED DESIGN
Designing With The Community, Not Just For Them
Design decisions can unintentionally miss local context or trigger resistance.
Our Solution: We lead early-stage community engagement that builds trust, uncovers lived experience, and aligns design intent with local aspirations.
Embedding Insight Into The Design Process
There's often limited time or structure to gather meaningful feedback during concept development.
Our Solution: We provide research and engagement strategies that feed into the early design phase, supporting briefs, masterplans, and planning narratives.
Creating Spaces That Include Everyone
Important user groups, like young people, neurodivergent individuals or mobility-impaired residents, are often left out of consultation.
Our Solution: We run inclusive outreach, co-design workshops, and accessibility audits that inform genuinely inclusive design outcomes.
Aligning With Social Value Objectives
Demonstrating how design contributes to social value can be vague or undervalued.
Our Solution: We capture, measure and communicate how your design delivers long-term community benefit, helping you stand out in procurement and planning.
Supporting You Behind The Scenes
Architects are increasingly expected to lead engagement, but it's often outside your core remit.
Our Solution: We handle community liaison, event delivery, and feedback analysis, so you can stay focused on design, knowing your engagement is in expert hands.
Anticipating Local Perceptions Early
Beautiful designs can still face backlash if people feel excluded from the process.
Our Solution: We surface community concerns and opportunities early, reducing design revisions and helping create places that are embraced from day one.
Strengthening Stakeholder Relationships
Communicating the value of your design to clients, councils, and communities isn’t always straightforward.
Our Solution: We translate complex ideas into clear narratives and visuals, helping clients and stakeholders connect with the intent behind the architecture.
Supporting Design Legacy After Handover
Post-completion feedback is rarely gathered, limiting learning and future innovation.
Our Solution: We support post-occupancy evaluation, community follow-up, and insight-gathering that helps you understand real impact and inform future work.