Agenda 4 - Testing + Tactical Urbanism

We are urban changemakers and believe that the temporary, testing, and tactical activities are spaces of innovation. By going beyond the status quo of searching for permanence, we embrace a more flexible design methodology that learns from the way people use, interact in, or pass through spaces and places. Our team strategises when our design efforts should stop in order to make space for the unpredictable.

Our community engagement and empirical data analysis plays an collaborative role in learning from meanwhile projects. However, we respect that our work is only part of the journey these projects need to go on, and we work to build the relationships and ownership required for these tactical visions to come about. In projects like The Green House - C103 - restricting our involvement to the delivery of the bare essentials left room for others to complete the task.

Incremental changes to urban places can be strategised, and we work with local authorities and organisations to create open common plans. This more malleable, adaptive approach to urbanism creates space to test unconventional uses, cultural activities in surprising places, new social networks, or new spatial layouts. These strategies are about creating a vision with space for failure, in order to learn and create real lasting change.

We are keenly conscious of the impact construction, and construction processes, have on places. Hoarding, sites left empty, storage of construction waste, and site management facilities can all negatively impact the surrounding area. We bring creative solutions to how key civic spaces, access, and economic activities can be enhanced throughout construction. One example of this is the Bingley Pavilion for Change.