In 2012 we ran a mini creative community festival of making with around 20 3D Design students and different community groups and organisations. The aim was simply to demonstrate the creative value of collaboration and making together. This explored how interacting with real community concerns and aspirations can lead to more authentic and meaningful 'products'.
Coinciding with the commencement of UK ‘Localism’ legislation this web-resource and touring exhibition maps modern designers ambition to forge meaningful and positive engagements with ‘locality’ to enable more valued contributions to society, the economy and the environment. Once shunned as a word, ‘local’ has re-emerged as a methodological basis that contemporary practitioners, companies and governments are reimagining and utilising as a cutting edge context and rich resource for meaningful creative sustenance and social, political and environmental benefit.