Working alongside someone else’s conflict
This year Street Space have supported me to become a qualified mediator and although my heart isn’t set on becoming a mediator in the traditional contexts, in-line or precursing legal disputes — I am, ever enchanted by the principles of mediation, moving people through conflict to a place of resolution, understanding and mutual benefit.
At Street Space, it’s often that our projects touch, intersect, neighbour and surround instances of conflict. These might be conflicts between communities and councils resulting from a difficult decision, a lack of listening, funding cuts or often a lack of meaningful and thorough engagement in the first place….
“You hired someone from the local area? That’s nice”
In all our projects when we’re working in a neighbourhood or with a community we don’t know or have established links in, we start by hiring a local producer to join our engagement team. This means the creation of a flexible job role which allows someone to shape where they live and help connect our engagement to established local networks they may be a part of…
What does a genuinely collaborative street naming process look like?
In recent years, the calls across the globe for renaming streets and removing statues can be heard more loudly and passionately than ever. Aided hugely by the Black Lives Matter movement, citizens are more commonly and more loudly calling out…
Want people to feel safe in your town centre? Activate it!
Street Space are excited to share results from our latest action research study outside one of London’s top ten busiest stations. The research found that by encouraging and enabling ‘activation’ such as busking and performance by local artists and…
Small acts of heroism…
Over the last few years at Street Space we’ve been involved in conversations with local people about how to improve the footbridges over the railway lines in Barking Town Centre…