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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.

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

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