// An evolving directory of projects and organisations working to equitably improve cities and urban life //

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Activate the city!: A creative urban placemaking agency working with young people to activate vacant and underused spaces in cities and facilitate positive socio-economic change

Build Up Foundation: Working with young people to lead change in their community through co-designed and co-built projects

Candy Chang: Playful, imaginative projects connecting people’s lives and stories to the city

CoRe Ciudades Vivibles y Amables: Mexico-based association seeking to transform cities into more liveable, friendly and equitable places for people

ft’work: a non-profit dedicated to creating thriving communities and ensuring that social principles underpin all new development

GROWING PLACES INDY: BUILDING A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM IN INDIANAPOLIS THROUGH URBAN FARMING AND FOOD ACCESS

LIVING SPACE PROJECT: AN URBAN PLACEMAKING AND GREEN SPACE CONSULTANCY DEDICATED TO CREATING SUCCESSFUL AND EQUITABLE PLACES IN DIVERSE CITIES

Living Streets: Campaigning for pedestrians and improving public spaces across the UK

make:good: A london design studio engaging and empowering people to make positive local change

Mākhers Studio: quality affordable space solutions for housing and neighbourhood enterprises where residents can thrive and lead equitable community revitalisation

Migrant’s Bureau: Curating, researching and facilitating design interventions in response to how culture, geography and social circumstances can influence people’s experiences of the city

Our Future Cities: Cape Town-based non-profit promoting democracy and actions towards the creation of more equitable, progressive and bold cities

Participate in Design: A community-centric design, planning and educational practice in Singapore

People for Mobility Justice: LA-based collective seeding critical consciousness about mobility justice and building mobility justice champions within transportation equity policy and planning

Playing Out: Building a culture of street play across the UK, through supporting residents and organisations to temporarily close local streets to cars and transform them into spaces for play

POoR Collective: a social enterprise focused on the development of communities, bridging gaps through teaching, knowledge sharing and workshops

Reimagining the Civic Commons: A US collaboration of national foundations and local civic leaders reimagining civic assets as a solution to counter increasing economic segregation and social isolation

Resolve: A London design collective focused on collaborating with communities – particularly YOUTH AND UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS – to realise more equitable visions of change

Revolución Urbana: A group of Mexican architects and citizens for sustainable urban mobility and walkable cities

Social Bite: sandwich shops in Scottish cities which employ local homeless people and donate ALL profits to charity

Sweet Water Foundation: Chicago foundation utilising urban agriculture, art and education to transform vacant spaces and buildings into productive and sustainable community assets

The Center for Urban Pedagogy: A non-profit NYC-based organisation using the power of design and art to improve civic engagement and urban learning

The Glass-House Community Led Design: A UK charity dedicated to connecting people with the design of their local places and enabling them to improve it

The Laundromat Project: A new york arts organisation advancing artists and neighbours as change agents in their own communities

the Orchard Project: Engaging communities to create productive urban orchards across the UK

The Untokening: A collective that centres the lived experiences of marginalised communities to address mobility justice and equity

Theatrum Mundi: A forum and network asking questions about urban culture, including how the connections between performance, design and politics can help us understand cities

Thrivance Group: working to help fortify spaces and places that are invested in the wellbeing and collective healing of those who are most vulnerable to disparity, displacement, and disenfranchisement

Toestand: A Belgian youth-led organisation reractivating abandoned buildings and places by means of temporary and autonomous socio-cultural centres

UP Projects: curating, commissioning and producing contemporary public art that explores heritage, identity and place in the UK

Urban95: Helping URBAN planners and designers scale ways to improve the urban experience for children and their caregivers

Urbz: Global, experimental action and research collective specialised in participatory planning and design

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