
We had such a great time exploring Southbank that we’re hosting another Explorer’s Day in a new corner of London!
We had such a great time exploring Southbank that we’re hosting another Explorer’s Day in a new corner of London!
Caroline is a participatory planning specialist with a background in urban design.
She has worked in both the private and public sectors on complex projects big and small – and has continuously found that urban interventions work best when shaped by locals themselves.
Caroline moved to London in 2013 to pursue her Masters at the Bartlett School of Planning. Since then, she has worked in regeneration and strategic planning, and has focused particularly on how local participation can inform and shape these areas
Ensuing The Urban Explorer of Vancouver’s Civic Buildings event, London followed suit on the 3d December 2017. A team of explorers took to the streets of around Southbank to uncover, observe and map spaces that perform a civic function.
In collaboration with volunteers from the Vancouver Public Space Network, Eclective set an urban explorer’s challenge to research Vancouver’s Civic Buildings and map them on a ‘Publicness scale’.
Eclective was invited to run a workshop with students from the BA Spatial Design course at London College of Communication. Students were encouraged to use creative research methods to understand a place, its people, and its stories.
Narrative in Practice (NiP) is a semi-annual, one-day symposium that brings artists, architects, community organisers, and other creatives together to explore the use and importance of narrative in their work.
Eclective was excited to design a one-day urban exploration for young families. We were asked to plan an ‘urban adventure’ around Clerkenwell that would be fun and accessible for a family with two young children and a cargo bike.
This London-based project looked into ways that Goodbike, a cargo-bike scheme, might become a helpful new member of the Somers Town Community.
On a crisp winters day in 2015 Eclective set about exploring Longwood Park. We wandered the neighbourhood, took photographs, sketched, met locals and got them to take us to places meaningful to them.
Langley locals gathered with us to share food and stories about Longwood Park. The stories were compiled into a unique A-Z of the neighbourhood.
The 5th installment of our Dinner By series took place in the lovely, 57 Arts in Lewisham. We were honoured to be joined by special guests from studio-L, a Japan-based agency that combines community empowerment with social design.
Dinner By Vol. 4 concluded a week-long residency at ‘The Platform’ in Loughborough Junction. Special guests reviewed findings from the week and critically reflected on community design for social impact.
As with every project, Story Jam began with an adventure…
Site research gave us a taste of local characters and places
Eclective partnered with BA Design students from London College of Communication for an exploratory adventure in Lewisham. We hosted in-class seminars and discussions au plein air, encouraging students to document the area using drawings, photographs, rubbings, etc
Fun Day was a chance for us to get some fresh air while exploring Lewisham with a troop of friends and fellow adventurers.
Eclective travelled to Cyprus to present at the Socially Engaged Design Conference (SED).
This event allowed a range of UK and Cyprus-based academics, creatives, and researchers to explore the relationship between socially-engaged design and urban development.
Crepes Suzette avec Eclective was the third installment of ‘Dinner By’, an evening spent discussing social design and urbanism around the table.
As the financial, political and cultural capital of the UK and some would say Europe, London is the temporary home to many intrepid explorers, experience starved academics and excitement loving creative minds.
Eclective was thrilled to run a children’s workshop during Open-City’s Archikids Festival at Leadenhall Market. Twenty pint-sized participants got to design special habitats for, ‘Henri’ a fantastical creature dreamt up with interactive story games.
Dinner By started in our living room. It was a self-initiated way to express our love for cooking while bringing together designers, architects, and community-organizers to discuss socio-cultural trends and issues in their practices.
Somers Town Open House was a two–day event for the London Festival of Architecture. Eclective transformed an unused estate nursery into a ‘playground of ideas’ which presented stories, particular nuances and maps of everyday life in the area.
Bridging Boundaries followed on from the ‘Field Notes’ project (Somers Town Vol. 1). In this installment Beverley and Yukie responded to extraordinary observations of everday life with a series of small-scale interventions, intended to have big social impact.
Larnaka Plan B was a three–day design festival which celebrated the urban environment and invited people to re–imagine the city of Larnaka. The festival’s base was an empty shop in the town centre which we transformed into a friendly, creative and curious cafe offering traditional food and drink.
The V&A invited Beverley and Katie to create and facilitate a speakers’ corner installation for the V&A Friday Late Summer Camp.
‘Field Notes’ captures unique observations of everyday life in Somers Town.
The book describes the ordinary and extraordinary happenings of daily life in a typical London neighbourhood.
In conjunction with London Borough of Camden’s Out of School Learning Service, Beverley, Yukie and Crona, alongside students from Central Saint Martins MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments collaborated with Year 10 Creative Media pupils at Hampstead School.
In conjunction with London Borough of Camden’s Out of School Learning Service, Beverley, Yukie and Crona, alongside students from Central Saint Martins MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments collaborated with Year 10 Creative Media pupils at Hampstead School.
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Our individual emails are as follows:
yukie@eclective.co.uk beverley@eclective.co.uk rachel@eclective.co.uk despina@eclective.co.uk