Highlighting three case studies from the 2025 Pineapple awards, which celebrate the very best of Community Engagement.

How do we listen, learn and collaborate with communities to create flexible, responsive and tailored places where people thrive. Visiting three exemplary projects of different scale and complexity that have taken an innovative and in-depth approach to community engagement and co-creation.
 

With an exciting programme and a commitment to recognising projects that make a positive social, environmental and economic impact - we celebrate places that contribute to urban life and encourage people to live, work, dwell or play.

Join these sessions to learn more about the projects:

• The Public Realm Inclusivity Panel, Earls Court Masterplan, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham for The Earls Court Development Company with ZCD Architects 
  • Dinah Bornat, Director, ZCD Architects 
  • Laurence Neal, Design Lead, Earls Court Development Company 

• Blackbird Leys Community Centre Community Engagement, Oxford for Oxford City Council and Peabody with Transition by Design Cooperative, JTP, Jessop & Cook, Ireland Albrecht and Savills 
  • Wongani Mwanza, Architect and Participatory Urban Designer, Transition by Design 
  • Karoline Soisalo de Mendonca, Regeneration Manager, Oxford City Council  

• Tower Court, London Borough of Hackney for Hackney Council with Daisy Froud
  • Liza Fior, Director, Muf Architecture/art
  • Adam Khan, Director, Adam Khan Architects