By Barnes Town Team Over the last 10 years or so the Barnes Town Team has worked with the community and businesses to transform Barnes. This blog is an adaption of a recent award submission and comes at a time when Barnes is in the spotlight with the re-opening of…
By Charles Campion. The Workshed – a new digital and creative business hub designed by JTP is making an impact in the heart of the traditional Cornish market town of Liskeard. “The workshed has brought a conversation and a bit of disruption into Liskeard, and a place to connect with…
By Charles Campion, Barnes Town Team One of the 20/20 Visions case studies tells the story of the Big Barnes Ponder, a Charrette organised by the Barnes Community Association Town Team, held in October 2013. The single day Charrette attracted over 300 people to participate in shaping a Vision for their…
“How do we achieve the desired goal of more homes and more amenities, in the right places with the liveability that we all want. What is our role as urban designers, to ensure we deliver as ‘placemakers’? What else is in the toolbox to enable intensification that enables thriving, resilient…
The Leonberg, Germany 2022 Perspektivenwerkstatt (aka Charrette) and next steps “Leonberg is a car city” is something you can often hear locally. In the past, motorway-like roads have been laid through the town centre and there is a general lack of environmental quality and social meeting spaces. The aim of…
John Thompson, internationally renowned pioneer of collaborative placemaking, has sadly died at the age of 78 after a long illness. Below we reproduce a reflection on John’s life and career first published in January 2023 by JTP where he was Chairman from 1994 until 2016. An obituary also appeared in…
In 2021 Charles Campion, author of 20/20 Visions and partner at JTP, joined the newly established Soil in Construction and Planning Task Force based at Lancaster University. The Task Force has recently produced a new report which seeks to drive better management of soils through the planning and construction stages of…
Adie Dove is founder and director of Bodmin based Kick Back Street Kids (KBSK) Performing Arts. In this second blog from Bodmin, Adie sets out her passion and mission for KBSK and why she welcomed the Bodmin Town Centre Charrette held in March 2022. “The Charrette process has demonstrated the…
Social entrepreneur John Lakey tells the story behind Poly Rhythm, an innovative, free musical instrument library founded during lockdown to serve the Bodmin community. For many of those who just travel through Bodmin, those going to holidays homes on the North Coast, to surf the wild Atlantic waves at Polzeath…
Alec Charles is Manager of the Cattle Market Makers Project in Liskeard, Cornwall. Here he describes the exciting strides being made to transform the former cattle market site, support the local creative and maker communities and raise the profile of Liskeard as a destination on the region’s creative map. Handcrafted…