PROUD Zoners Re-Visited

After using the zoners in their original form at a few public events, Helen Ryan, Public Realm Development Manager from Lancaster City Council found that some extra features would be useful

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

Knowledge Exchange Tools Design

PROUD are designing tools for creative public consultation in a collaboration with Lancaster City Council aiming to improve the uptake, creativity and effectiveness of public consultations