Ebbsfleet Design Group builds on our pioneering three-year creative placemaking programme This Must Be The Place to continue our work collaborating with local young people on the development of the new Ebbsfleet Garden City, supported by artists, academics, architects, and designers.
Following our 24/25 Community Researchers programme led by researcher Rana Khazbak and RESOLVE Collective, 25/26's Design Group centres around the theme of reciprocity.
Facilitated by Flimsy Works, the programme builds upon the notion of the circular economy and the re-use/re-purposing of materials, but takes it a step further and encourages the young people who form the Design Group to think about how the movement of materials impacts the landscapes they are extracted, stored on, or grown from, too.
Together with the young people, Flimsy Works will use the sessions throughout the programme to explore 'reciprocal spaces' as a way of demonstrating how architecture and engineering principles can change what we think is needed to make new spaces. Drawing from reclaimed, natural materials and redistribution initiatives, the programme will prototype a series of reciprocal spaces that are sourced and constructed in ways which think differently about the landscape of Ebbsfleet.
As part of this exploration, Ebbsfleet Design Group will meet over the course of three ‘labs’ from October 2025 to April 2026.
Ebbsfleet Design Group is delivered in partnership with the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.
