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Ideas on making space for as wide a range of users as possible. On enabling participation in public life. On addressing inherent conflicts. On manifesting the possibilities and the joy of living together in a city.

Portfolio

The Companionable Bench
Peripheral Vision
über:sehen, über:gangen, über:plant
Toward New Spitalfields
Let's Talk About Darmstadt Pt II
Inside Out
London Works
The Proprietor
Is it Play?
A Car-free London?
Fairer Futures
A Street To Draw On
The Moving Corridor
Look Out
The Extended Bauhaus
Our Street
Designing Empathy
Home Comforts on the Move
An Exchange of Views
Child in the City
The Joy of Close Looking

In Progress

About

I am a spatial practitioner focusing on participatory strategies. I am interested in the city as a meeting place: in how its public spaces provide opportunities for exchange, and how design processes can allow residents and other inhabitants to learn about others, forge new partnerships, and have a hand in directing the environmental changes affecting them.

I understand design as not a primarily aesthetic discipline, but one that also facilitates bridge-building and communication. I combine research and academic teaching with spatial practice, having delivered projects at all scales from bench to masterplan for a wide range of complex client bodies including many local authorities.

hello@marklemanski.com

+44 (0) 7792 390 120