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

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