As we continue into the new year, we have project updates together with some exciting wider events and updates to share for the month ahead!
Wongani selected to join the Oxford Design Review Panel
We’re excited to share that Wongani has been appointed to the Oxford Design Review Panel. Wongani will be bringing his knowledge and experience of community engagement and design, especially with our hyperlocal expertise of working with communities in Oxford.
The Oxford Design Review Panel plays an essential role in promoting high quality design to help create better buildings, streets and public spaces in the city. It is a process in which major developments in the city will be reviewed by a panel of built environment professionals who sit outside of the project that is being reviewed.
Community-led housing workshop in Barton, Oxford
We will be running a workshop on Community-Led Housing together with Oxfordshire Community Land Trust and Owned by Oxford in Barton on Tuesday 18th March, between 5:30-7pm. This workshop will be about what kind of new housing we need in Barton, and how the community itself can take the lead in creating it.
It’s open to everyone. Please come along and share your views – no experience of housing development necessary! Find out more and sign up at this link.
Ozone Leisure Park Community Engagement
We’re excited to share with you a new project we’re working on. We have been appointed to deliver the community engagement for the leisure and community uses of the redevelopment of the Ozone Leisure Park. We will shortly be sharing details about the upcoming public co-design charettes, which will be an opportunity for people to help shape the reprovision of community and leisure uses on the site. We’ll be sending project-specific updates about this project. If you are interested in being kept up to date, then email us at ozone@transitionbydesign.org.
We’re excited at the opportunity to shape the future of the Ozone Leisure Park with the local community and users of the site!
Transition by Design Presenting to RIBA Oxfordshire on ‘Whole Life Carbon or Passivhaus’
Is it more important how much energy a build uses in operation or how much energy it takes to build it in the first place? What is net-zero carbon? If current policy doesn’t achieve this how might it?
On March 19th 17.30 – 19:30 at Oxford Brookes University, Transition by will be presenting to RIBA Oxfordshire, to discuss this essential but complicated issue. We’ll bring our decade long experience and progressive research to a panel discussion.
Speakers:
⭐ Juliet Evans, Principal Planner South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District Council
⭐ Alex Towler Architect and Passivhaus designer at Transition by Design
⭐ Chris Swinburn Founding Director and Mechanical Engineer at Beyond Carbon
⭐ Iona Foster Architect and RIBA Oxfordshire Committee Member
⛪ Venue: John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, First Floor, John Henry Brookes Building Oxford Brookes University
☕ Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm
💥 Organizers: RIBA Oxfordshire with OxArch Oxford Architecture Society Student Architecture Society of Oxford School of Architecture
👏 Sponsors: With support from RIBA LIF RIBA South / South East
Thanks to support from Imperial Bricks sponsor of RIBA Oxfordshire events 2024-2025
Sign up for free here.
Changing Oxford: Connecting Communities and Spaces
Wongani will be speaking at the North Wall Gallery as part of a series of events and an exhibition called Dividing Lines, Connected Spaces on Tuesday 8 April 2025 at 18:30. Through a conversation around connecting communities and spaces across Oxford, we will reflect on the topic of belonging, community engagement, design, housing and spaces during our time together. Both looking to the past and to the future of the changing cityscape of Oxford.
The workshop will include short film screenings, interactive discussion and opportunities to connect with others. Come along if you’re interested in community participation, housing, belonging or architecture and design. You can book a free ticket for the event here.
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