Martin Dudley has been working as a volunteer with local residents in his own neighbourhood in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sheffield Dwell project.
Dwell is a three-year research project, which has been funded by the UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ESRC, and AHRC) to investigate how the design of houses and neighbourhoods can facilitate mobility and well-being – for current and future generations.
Over the last year a group has worked on ideas, and talked to local people and specialists about what might be done, and tested a number of ways of finding out.
We have looked at physical re-design, movement and access, learning, facilities and housing needs, and planning changes, in meetings and by talking to local groups, schoolchildren, retailers and businesses. We have put on an interactive display at the Village Show, distributed fliers, and published a brochure of ideas about how to improve the village centre for all. The brochure is available below.
With neighbourhood planing (NP) under way through a recently designated Forum, the Dwell work not only contributes to the overall research project, but may also contributes thinking to the NP process.
Dwell is a three-year research project, which has been funded by the UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ESRC, and AHRC) to investigate how the design of houses and neighbourhoods can facilitate mobility and well-being – for current and future generations.
Over the last year a group has worked on ideas, and talked to local people and specialists about what might be done, and tested a number of ways of finding out.
We have looked at physical re-design, movement and access, learning, facilities and housing needs, and planning changes, in meetings and by talking to local groups, schoolchildren, retailers and businesses. We have put on an interactive display at the Village Show, distributed fliers, and published a brochure of ideas about how to improve the village centre for all. The brochure is available below.
With neighbourhood planing (NP) under way through a recently designated Forum, the Dwell work not only contributes to the overall research project, but may also contributes thinking to the NP process.
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