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The Knowledge Bank is where education meets practice. It shares insight from real projects, making creative placemaking accessible to students, educators, and emerging creatives.
Learn from the best. Learn from experts through lived and shared experience and connect with a collaborative and supportive network. Learn how to experiment and fail confidently and creatively.
Podcast
Accessible conversations on art, architecture, and creative placemaking. Choose from a growing archive of conversations. Free to listen. Open to all.
Featuring architects, artists, and community leaders from award winning and exciting placemaking projects. Each episode shares real stories, practical lessons, and reflections on experimentation, collaboration, and neurodiverse thinking.
Designed for learning, the Podcast breaks down barriers to professional understanding as well as how and why projects happen – and what they teach us.
EPISODES
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Our sister podcast Architecture Made Simple can be accessed here.
Furloughed Space
Strangely our experience of furlough and this pandemic are not so different to being made redundant. Having suffered redundancy* first-hand, I recognise that it can leave you feeling emotionally bereft and without purpose.
Space In-Between
What does Climate Change look like from the other side of the world? Tim and Andy talk to David Konwiser, a Costa Rican-based Architect, comparing stories about how climate change and the environment affect design and practice.
The Lion's Den
Recorded in front of a live audience at an IGNITE event, Senior Lecturer, Academic, and Architectural Mentor, Roger Tyrrell, shares his experiences as a respected academic, weaving a narrative that goes beyond the conventional realms of architecture.
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POP-UP POD
PROTOTYPE
Launching Autumn 2026
A mobile, multi-functional hub for creativity, collaboration, and public engagement.
The POD activates underused spaces, hosting workshops, pop-ups, and events, turning ideas into tangible action. A versatile, scalable creative asset, it sparks innovation, learning, and collaboration for communities, freelancers, and innovators.
Invest now to help shape this high-impact platform, unlocking social, cultural, and economic value while securing intellectual property.
Sign up for early access and updates — join the creative movement.
POP-UP PILOT
CREATIVE HUB
See Space Differently CIC is launching a six-week pop-up pilot in Salisbury, transforming three empty retail units into vibrant, temporary creative hubs. This activation brings together artists, freelancers, micro-businesses, and the local community, demonstrating how underused spaces can generate social, cultural, and economic value.
At the heart of the pilot is Shape & Shift, a sculptural installation by Tim Scrace. Built from reclaimed materials and evolved from his previous work, Shape & Shift consists of three sculptural pods representing:
- Art: exhibition and showcase space
- Architecture: studio and practice base
- Community: workshops, events, and shared activity
These pods serve as flexible, interactive spaces that invite people to engage, co-create, and reimagine how the High Street can support creativity, enterprise, and collaboration. The pilot aims to show the potential of vacant shops not as empty voids, but as living, adaptable spaces. It provides a test bed for exploring:
- How people inteact with environments in new ways
- How creativity can drive footfall, engagement, and community participation
- How communities can take ownership of local spaces and contribute to their vibrancy
By activating these units, the pilot generates insight into creative placemaking strategies that can be scaled or replicated elsewhere, bridging artistic practice, community engagement, and urban design.
WHY NOW?
Vacant units are ready to activate
Contributions unlock 60% matched funding, amplifying impact
Funding supports staffing, pod hire, workshops, and events
The pilot leads directly to the broader See Space Differently launch
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WORKSHOPS
Workshops, lectures, internships, and foundation courses offer structured learning and mentorship. Participants gain experience while contributing to meaningful community projects.
Why It Matters
Creativity builds confidence, resilience, and problem-solving skills.
The Knowledge Bank creates a safe space for experimentation. It celebrates diverse ways of thinking, including neurodiverse approaches, and shares honest lessons from real projects. Knowledge exchange democratises access to creative professional work, education and skills
Every resource and program is designed to equip members with the confidence, tools, and mentorship to shape spaces and communities. Learn how to transform spaces and communities with creativity, insight, and confidence.
Learn How to Shape Space and Make Place
Join Us
Our highly skilled and talented network wants to share knowledge, mentor emerging talent, and foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and collaboration.
It is time to become part of a supportive creative ecosystem — learning from practitioners behind real placemaking projects, collaborating with peers, and building the confidence and skills to turn ideas into action.