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Commonplace
Great places are created by understanding and responding to the needs of the community. Commonplace is the UK and Ireland’s most advanced solution for community engagement and co-design. We have created an inclusive and flexible platform designed to gather geolocated localised sentiment data around places and spaces. Commonplace not only enables broader community conversations – it turns those conversations into a rich, data-led understanding.
Hello Lamp Post
Hello Lamp Post creates intelligent virtual agents for the real world. Their AI-driven chats put a digital assistant in any public space or location, making community engagement quicker, easier and cheaper. By making places interactive, anyone can share ideas, access public services and co-create solutions to global challenges from their mobile phones.
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings
Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings, is a multidisciplinary infrastructure and place consultancy shaping sustainable spaces across the UK. They work with local authorities and private developers to deliver civil infrastructure, support sustainable communities, and create vibrant, well-designed places. Project Centre's expertise spans highways and infrastructure design, kerbside and parking management, sustainable transport, and award-winning public realm projects including flood and water management, lighting and community engagement.
Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice dedicated to creating cities, buildings and places that will provide a lasting legacy. Through a shared design ethos, we work together to create places with a strong sense of identity where people and communities want to live, learn, shop, work and relax. Our collaborative approach to integrated sustainable design has enabled us to deliver award-winning projects at all scales across the world. Every project, from a strategic city plan to the craftmanship of a balustrade, reflects our passion for quality design and place-making.
Lancaster University/ImaginationLancaster
ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory globally recognised design-led research lab at Lancaster University, one of the top 10 universities in the UK. We conduct interdisciplinary design and architecture research into current and future challenges facing cities, communities, factories, workplaces and homes.
WSP UK
As one of the world’s leading engineering professional services consultancies, WSP brings clarity and vision to complex challenges. Our team of technical specialists and strategic advisers across the UK is part of a talented global family of expertise.
SYSTRA
SYSTRA is one of the world’s leading engineering and consulting groups, specialising in infrastructure and mobility solutions. In the UK & Ireland, SYSTRA has been creating, improving and modernising infrastructure for more than 50 years across the transport, energy, environmental and built-environment sectors. Their work creates inspirational places and systems that connect people seamlessly, enhance well-being, stimulate economies, and provide a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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