In week 6, Codesign Jessica Christiansen-Franks came to our workshop as a guest presenter to share about her work and knowledge that we could apply to our Lentara project work as well.

“CoDesign studio is a design and placemaking consultancy dedicated to reinventing Australian neighbourhoods.” They use tactical urbanism and CoDesign processes to assist clients in managing change effectively, engage creatively with communities, initiate underutilized spaces and producing collaborative solutions for places.

Based on Jessica’s presentation, the term tactical urbanism is an internationally proven approach to neighborhood building that consists of a low-cost, short-term intervention to catalyse long-term change.

Place Diagnostics

Gather data about how people use and experience your space so you can make decisions based on evidence.

Experiential Community Engagement

Understand the needs of the local community so you can make good decisions, and develop sustainable outcomes.

Place Activation and Design Testing

Find new uses for underutilised spaces,or activate new spaces.

Placemaking and Urban Strategy

Great spaces are so much more the paving, furniture and streets, they’re people places. build meaningful, inclusive places that people want to be in, from the ground up.