Chapter 11Visioning Brentford Lock West

JOHN SAMPSON, URBED

CONTRIBUTOR PROFILE: JOHN SAMPSON

John Sampson is an urban designer and architect at URBED with over ten years’ professional experience. He has collaborated on a number of action research projects,1 ranging from developing community-led design solutions for low-carbon neighbourhoods through to best-practice guidance on parking provision.

Over a number of years the practice has invested in ‘design for change’,2 an engagement methodology aimed at allowing tenants to actively and meaningfully engage, communicate and co-design with architects. The process was originally developed out of URBED’s involvement with the Homes for Change housing cooperative in Manchester. We were later ...

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