“I realized that basically the way that cities are being developed is a little broken.” — Thomas Ugo Ermacora, founder, Clear Village Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author Thomas Ermacora terms ‘recoding’. In […] more »
Beyond the Pages: Recoded City Date: 9 June 2016 Time: 6:30PM Location: Machines Room, 45, Vyner Street, Hackney, London, E2 9DQSpeakers: Thomas Ermacora (Chair), editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Lucy Bullivant, editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Clementine Blakemore, WORKSHOP architecture Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse Petra Havelska and Igor Marko, Marko & PlacemakersBeyond the […] more »
As 2015 draws to a close, I would like to share a number of reflections on how I see Clear Village developing in the years ahead. The first theme I would like to touch on is the relationship between participatory design and technology. Until now Clear Village has been viewed […] more »
PROJECT NEWS SMALLWORKS VICTORIA OUR FIRST ENTREPRENEUR LEAVES THE NEST August saw some exciting developments at Small Works Victoria. We’ve established links with Fareshare and Tate Britain, set up a focus group with The Young Foundation about the Small Works programme, and we’ve also been featured in Peabody’s summer edition […] more »
HOLIDAY CHEER CLEAR VILLAGE SENDS WARM REGARDS Holiday Greetings from CLEAR VILLAGE! From meeting amongst stunning white-frosted trees in Bedfords Park to mingling for interviews with holiday shoppers and shopkeepers on Tottenham’s high street, from watching picturesque ice flows on Regent’s Canal to holiday celebrations and openings at Victoria and […] more »
make.helsinki GETTING IT DONE IN MAKESHOP 3! Despite competition from the beautiful summer weather, CLEAR VILLAGE and Demos Helsinki recently joined a good-size group of about twenty-five participants for the second of three workshops, collectively named, make.helsinki, at the World Design Capital pavilion in Helsinki, Finland. Where the first workshop identified locations and intervention potentials, the […] more »
LONDON SUMMER CLEAR VILLAGE & LONDON THIS SUMMER! From Hackney to Essex, in classrooms and workshops CLEAR VILLAGE is engaging community centers and working with landlords to make great changes in London this summer! Festival Village & Festival of the World, hosted by our friends from Tilt, opened it’s doors to great aplomb for the […] more »
Exciting news! In the spirit of an old project started in Paris almost 10 years ago, I have finally found a way to achieve my ambition to have offices that reflect Clear Village’s regeneration design ethos and mix our creative endeavours with like minds in a space that is ours […] more »
Conversazioni con il Futuro di Atina a CLEAR VILLAGE project in Mid Italy After our ‘Dynamic Dialogues’ process in Helsingborg and the ‘Repairing Broken Communities’ well-being analysis in a deprived area in Kiel earlier this year, CLEAR VILLAGE is carrying out its third main project in 2011 in a rural […] more »