Conversation for change
Listen to a conversation between We Can Make and Onion Collective about how communities can make the impossible possible.
About:
Discover how creative approaches and a mix of digital + physical tools and spaces can mean that everyone is included in neighbourhood planning, dreaming, imagining, and making…
Featuring: Melissa Mean (Director of citizen-led housing initiative We Can Make based in Knowle West, Bristol) with Jessica Prendergrast and Georgie Grant (Directors of Onion Collective in Watchet, Somerset). Chaired by Martha King (Arts Programme Manager at KWMC.)
Specially recorded for the Come Together programme.
Transcript available here.
Onion Collective is a social enterprise working to tackle social, cultural and environmental injustice in their hometown of Watchet.
They deliver wide-reaching and ambitious regeneration projects that are holistic in nature, benefiting people and planet. Their aim is to create purposeful and interesting jobs, build local economic resilience, widen cultural engagement and enhance aspiration. The Onion Collective were National Partners of the Come Together project
We Can Make is a new housing initiative that supports communities to create the homes they want and need.
We Can Make uses an asset-based approach to re-imagine “how to do housing” differently. It starts with the know-how and resources the community already has, and uses a process of creative co-design to work with people to develop the tools to do housing on their terms. It is a partnership between KWMC and White Design, an award-winning architects practice.
“Together, We Can Make good homes, local jobs, space for nature, social infrastructure, community wealth, a thriving neighbourhood.”
