As part of the CIRCuIT (Circular construction in regenerative cities) project we challenged students from the University of Brighton to “use design-for-disassembly to build exhibition furniture that lasts over five years”. The focus of the hackathons have been around the creation of modular exhibition display furniture, able to be disassembled […] more »
As a part of our work on the #SMOTIES project working in small and remote places we have the opportunity to visit all the partners that we are collaborating with. This gives us a chance to have valuable in person meetings to help develop collaborative methodology and to visit and […] more »
The Clear Village Remote Making team have been busy delivering a series of digital making workshops in the village of Penmachno, Conwy. Generously supported by the Ashley Family Foundation, these workshops explore and celebrate the histories of craft and industry in the Machno valley in North Wales, intersecting them with […] more »
In 2021 CIRCuIT partner Clear Village invited GoodWaste, a London based design studio breathing life into discarded materials to join them in a three month hackathon, Urban Mined, with the aim to find diamonds in the rough from London’s demolition waste. Urban Mined researched demolition materials, investigated how well they […] more »
As a part of our work on the #SMOTIES project working in small and remote places we have the opportunity to visit all the partners that we are collaborating with. This gives us a chance to have valuable in person meetings to help develop collaborative methodology and to visit and […] more »
Small Works is slowly getting back to normality with members running projects albeit with restrictions to keep in accordance with COVID guidelines. Our members and their beneficiaries are very happy to continue partaking in activities that are so useful to them. We are delighted to announce that we have recruited […] more »
This is part 2 of our Impact methodology blog series you can find the first one here. The main section of our impact measurement workshop revolved around a theory of how design fiction can be used to create imaginary scenarios in which we can trial and learn different impact measurement […] more »
Clear Village is undertaking an exciting new project in Penmachno, a remote rural community in the heart of Snowdonia national park, North Wales. We will be transforming a derelict shop in the village square into a multi-use space which responds to the history and future of the village, through community-led […] more »
Introduction In July Clear Village hosted a collaborative workshop with 10 different European partners in the Human CIties network. The goal of the workshop was to co create a new methodology for impact measurement. Too often impact measurement is insufficiently recorded due to a number of factors. The boundaries of […] more »
One of Clear Village’s main responsibilities in Human Cities IV is to create the methodology for impact assessment. All Human Cities partners will carry out an intervention in a small, remote place and our goal is to develop a robust way of measuring the effects, of seeing what works and […] more »
Having been a partner for Human Cities III, Clear Village is excited to be a part of the newest edition, Human Cities IV – a collaborative EU project working co-creatively with 10 European partners to drive social innovation. The fourth installment, SMOTIES, focuses on small and remote places, often neglected […] more »
Penmachno Community Hub Design Sprint & Digital Skills Taster Session Back in March 2019 Clear Village Project Lead Kristin Johanna Luke led a community hub sprint and open day, teaching digital skills and fabrication techniques to reimagine the local Welsh tapestry unique to Penmachno, and to develop design ideas for […] more »
Oriel Machno (Welsh for Machno Gallery) is part of the Remote Making strand of Clear Village projects, and there have been some major developments about this rural experimental community project space. Our team has been partnering with the Penmachno Community Trust and numerous very generous volunteers of all ages to […] more »
We’ve put together a short film about recent and more historic projects by Clear Village, a quick way to tell the story so far! more »