Partners
Design Matters has been privileged to work with local communities across London. Thank you to
our partners for their collaboration.
WEST LONDON
North Fulham
New Deal for Communities (NDC)
The North Fulham NDC is one of a network of New Deal partnerships located in 39 of the most
deprived neigbourhoods in England. It aims to place the community at the heart of regenerating
its own neighbourhood.
North Fulham NDC has been a supporter of Design Matters since its beginnings as a research
project which involved working with local residents of all ages. Match funding achieved in 2008 helped to bring
Design Matters to an audience of 13-19yr olds living or studying in the neighbourhood. All of the tools found in Drawing on Windows were tried,
tested and developed through workshops and summer schools delivered for students in West
London.
Find out more about the North Fulham NDC
www.northfulhamndc.org.uk
Hammersmith and Fulham
Urban Studies Centre
The Hammersmith and Fulham Urban Studies offers educational opportunities to children and young
people to learn about all aspects of the local urban environment in line with the National
Curriculum.
Our partnership with the centre opened up further local contacts and knowledge that helped to
make Design Matters a success in West London. The partnership’s work with Henry Compton
School’s School Travel Plan Project is a great example of how the project enjoys sharing and
learning from each other’s teaching practices. Run in 2009 the project considered how to bring
Higher Education teaching tools to the secondary school classroom. Since 2009, Design Matters
tools have formed a part of separate programmes for primary and secondary schools run by the
centre.
Find out more about the Hammersmith and Fulham Urban Studies Centre
www.hfusc.org.uk
NORTH LONDON
Copenhagen Youth Project (CYP)
Copenhagen Youth Project is a charitable organisation, working
with young people in the North King’s Cross area of London.
Design Matters delivered a short programme of activities in collaboration
with Copenhagen Youth Project investigating the idea of youth spaces.
Run from the ‘CYP Culture’ project space on the Caledonian Rd, a unique resource for
young people in the area which combines an exhibition space, information resource
and a place for them to come together to express their ideas and develop work in
intensive small groups. These sessions were a great opportunity for Design Matters
to work with young people from the North King’s Cross area. It was also a chance to put
together different teaching tools into a more compact delivery model sharpened to the
needs of the young people and CYP’s context as a local youth organisation.
Find out more about the Copenhagen Youth Project
www.cyproject.org
South Camden Community School
South Camden Community School (SCSS) is one of Central Saint Martins partners in the
Kings Cross neighbourhood. We were recently invited to run the My Place, My Space project
for pupils from two of their feeder schools, Edith Neville and Netley Primary School. The
sessions aimed to get them thinking about how the design of built environments can help to
make spaces feel welcoming, safe and comfortable. Two sessions delivered for each school
produced a showcase of models and 2D work hosted at Edith Neville Primary School.
The project was created with the context of SCCS’s Building Schools for the Future
Scheme in mind. The programme will see the school environment re-designed for future generations.
The children we worked with will be the first pupils welcomed to the newly designed school in 2013.
As well as the changes at SCCS, Central Saint Martins will be moving to the Kings Cross
neighbourhood in autumn 2011 which made this collaboration all the more interesting for
us to be a part of. We are looking forward to developing our relationship with SCCS with further work.
Find out more about South Camden Community School
www.sccs.camden.sch.uk
SOUTH EAST LONDON
Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust helps young people to achieve a
meaningful stake in society; supporting young people to develop pathways into sustainable
education and employment. Through partnerships with educational institutes as well as
industry organisations, young people are able to achieve qualifications and careers
in urban design and the built environment.
Design Matters’ work with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
has been part of a portfolio of projects at University of the Arts London’s Widening Participation
Central Unit. The trust has hosted three summer schools at the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Lewisham.
This provided the opportunity to marry up CSM’s innovative teaching practice with the trust’s
mentoring project, where architects were paired up with the summer school ‘graduates’. This
process sets those students up on an ongoing path of progression and continuing achievement
within the sphere of architecture and design.
Find out more about the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
www.stephenlawrence.org.uk
