Blogs

Using Libraries to extend digital media and social enterprise: building on existing investments

16th May 2013

Sheffield Community Network (SCN)

Sheffield Community Network is a programme of work to extend new digital opportunities into disadvantaged and deprived communities through support for social enterprise and the creation of neighbourhood based facilities for digital access and participation.

What next for the Daleks…

1st March 2013

There is much noise in the system, much hand ringing, agitation, chattering, tweeting, even chirping about all things but especially the economy, our society. We are offered singular or narrow arguments fixated on deficit reduction, austerity, rebalancing the economy, producer led solutions over consumption fuelled growth.

Design Review in Yorkshire-Guest Blog by Tom Lonsdale

15th January 2013

Yorkshire’s Design Review Service has now reached a stage of maturity where it is beginning to receive useful feedback from its customers. As we move inexorably into an era where design review is ‘purchased’, rather than either offered free or imposed, it becomes ever more important that the service is fine-tuned to provide the most valuable set of benefits to its users and direct feedback is the most reliable means of gauging where we are doing well or not so well.

Kingswood Community Design Review

6th December 2012

Integreat Plus and Design Council Cabe are pleased to continue their work with Hull City Council in helping the residents of Kingswood shape the place in which they live.

Is it a Gardener's World?- Guest Blog by Noel Farrer

9th November 2012

Flicking through the TV guide on a Sunday afternoon lists programme after programme on home and garden improvements; Gardener’s World, The Landscape Man, Escape to the Country, Real Gardens, Beechgrove Garden, the list goes on. Britain is obsessed with home transformations, garden make-overs, and ways of perfecting the little patch of the country that we can call our own. We religiously switch on to watch Alan discussing a hundred ways of making your neighbour envious as they peer over the fence.

Design for Climate Change- Guest Blog by Bill Gething

24th October 2012

Climate change presents twin challenges for the construction industry: mitigation (to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive future climate change) and adaptation (to design differently to take account of changes already underway and projected future change).

What are we going to do about our homes?- Guest Blog by Robin Nicholson

1st October 2012

David Birkbeck of Design for Homes (www.designforhomes.org) was recently quoted as saying “The UK has roughly 26m homes. We built 110,000 in 2011. To renew the stock through replacement would take more than 236 years at the current rate. The US is 236 years old this year.”