Waterden Green Youth Space
The detailed design stage of the space for teenage girls at Waterden Green is complete. The sessions in 2024 with Elevate, Make Space for Girls and the Mayor's Design Advocates created a brief for the space which has been developed by Studio Gil, Black Females in Architecture, Untitled Practice, Simple Works and Light Follows Behaviour. The co-creation process continued through the design development as the team worked with Elevate Youth Voice, Elevate Board, XLP, Badu and Harris Chobham Academy to develop the design for the space with shelters, social seating, planting and coloured surfacing.
We held a celebration event for the project and the co-creation process at UCLe - Click Here to check out the film of the event.
More information to follow as the scheme progresses.
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Meanwhile use at Waterden Green
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Waterden Green youth space and the space for teenage girls will be delivered as part of the next phase of the Wast Wick + Sweetwater development. As work on site is on due to start early 2026 and it will be a little while until the youth space is completed we invited year 10 students from Harris Academy Chobham, a group instrumental in the development of the design proposals for the space for teenage girls, to transform a trail of concrete blocks into an area for social seating. The girls painted the blocks with designs that reflected their ambitions for the space and their connection to nature.
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Waterden Green Report Published
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Thanks to Make Space for Girls, Mayor's Design Advocates and Elevate for this work.
London Legacy Development Corporation in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park trialled 'co-clienting' as a new kind of engagement with teenage girls which, by bringing them in at the earliest stage of the design process, ensured that they were actively involved in developing the design brief. The report sets out the methodology and results of this process.
The report details the engagement process and puts forward a roadmap for this model of engagement for those working in the built environment.The project's primary aims were:
• To explore different ways to engage with girls and young women in the built environment.
• To co-create a design brief with girls and young women for a safe and welcoming space within Waterden Green, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, in London that meets the needs of girls aged 12-18 in the public realm.
Through co-clienting, teenage girls and young women from Elevate Youth Voice were actively involved in shaping the design brief, offering insights, feedback, and co-creating a vision for the space.
Click Here to find the report
Click Here to find the Landscape Institute's blog