Who is it for?
Architects & Civil Engineers
We help you engage communities more deeply, enabling meaningful, constructive conversations and authentic insights in the place where the development is happening. We align plans with community needs, reducing resistance and supporting projects to stay on time and on budget. The AR activity can be delivered iteratively through the early stages of planning, depending on need, size of project and timescale.
Participant visions for future of Caerphilly rendered in 3D illustrations
Team working in Bristol on co-design with local residents
Councils
We help council planners and regeneration teams to better engage communities during planning in order to get improved plans and approval outcomes, by giving them an engaging immersive tool used in the location where the project will be built. Our vision is both of smoother planning processes and of plans that are better aligned with local wants and needs.
Communities
Future Places Toolkit aims to involve more diverse people in a meaningful way in neighbourhood visioning, giving people agency in local place-making, democracy and decision-making. Our inclusive and accessible approach involves communities who might not otherwise engage with planning, including with young people. It makes plans easier to understand in context, bringing them to life in a fun way, and offers a way to do collaborative co-design with communities and stakeholders.
Workshop participants seeing their imaginings come to life in AR
A backcasting workshop in Filwood Broadway
Event and Workshop Organisers
We use creative methods, including science fiction storytelling, theatre, sound design and immersive technology to make people’s ideas more tangible and to enable them to experience different future scenarios.
We have run workshops in various contexts, for example, with participants at the global annual Partners for a New Economy conference in Brussels, with the Regenerative Design Lab at Chatham House in London, and with residents in a community centre as part of a regeneration project in South Bristol.
CASE STUDIES
Regeneration of Filwood Broadway, South Bristol 2024-2025
Following a two-stage open tender run by Bristol City Council, Future Places Toolkit was part of a winning multi-disciplinary team lead by Architecture 00, including architect George Lovesmith and Studio Mothership.
Caerphilly Town 2035 – Festival of Ideas
As part of the Caerphilly Town 2035 project we were asked to deliver Future Places AR, engaging residents in imagining what they would like to see in 2035.