- How can we create a community benefits system?
- What are the prospects for young people in Cornwall?
- How can we design a better service for people living with dementia?
- Who wants to be a young entrepreneur?
- Could a community work exchange help people find employment & skills?
- How can we present GB expenditure & benefit data to show opportunities for innovation?
- How can people do more for their community?
- Where there are difficulties, there are opportunities.
- Imagine if Cornwall was a Worldwide Superbrand...
- Can Big Society be delivered with small change?
- Challenging Big Cornwall to Design in The Time
- Is there such a thing as 'Hard to Reach' people?
July 2010
Service design with cake
Project / Designing Communities
Having identified the viability of a community building in Pengegon, our next challenge was to co-design it. We wanted to empower the community and take ownership of the building, but we recognized that engagement of so-called ‘heard to reach' communities is challenging.
Enter the service design cake. Children and parents came after school, they created floor plans and moodboards and made a community centre model out of cake and sweets. This was inspiring and insightful, and demonstrates how it is possible to get any community motivated to participate.
Following this co-design activity, we used this information to develop some early stage building space plans for further discussion with the community. And here was the result:
"The residents already feel that they own the new community centre, even though it doesn't yet exist."
Claire Arymar, Neighbourhood Manager, Cornwall Council
