WE WERE THRILLED TO PARTNER UP WITH DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL AND SUSTRANS SCOTLAND TO CO-DELIVER THEIR NATIONAL SPACES FOR PEOPLE PROGRAMME IN DUNDEE.
During 2020-2021, we worked in partnership with Dundee City Council and Sustrans Scotland as part of their national Spaces for People programme, funded by Scottish Government, to implement the pedestrianisation of central Dundee street; Union Street and pocket parks on Eliza and Craigie Street in Dundee’s Stobswell neighbourhood.
Both of these outcomes were driven by what local communities wanted to see in their area during, and post, national restrictions being imposed as a result of the pandemic. These designs were developed across a number of co-design workshops led by Service Design Academy and local designers.
Photography provided by Sustrans Scotland and David P Scott
We began this process by working with local Union Street business owners and Dundee based designers Callum Laird, Roots Furniture and Leila Kalbassi, during the Summer of 2020 to help enhance trade during national COVID-19 restrictions. The final design for the street’s pedestrianisation included wooden planters designed by Roots Furniture utilising natural materials and bold graphics including a colourful mural designed by Callum Laird.
Such was the positive impact and success that these temporary co-designed interventions had in assisting business to trade during COVID-19 restrictions that the pedestrianisation of the street was recently voted to be permanent. We will continue to be involved in the next stages of the street’s development to ensure that business and residents’ needs are at the heart of these changes.
We’d like to thank the full team behind this project, from everyone who hand painted the initial temporary mural to Bonnie Dundee for maintaining the wooden planter’s flower beds.
