A Place For Me was a unique experiment bringing people that have experienced homelessness, together with architects and designers to co-produce a blueprint for a transition accommodation within the city of York.
Marking a significant departure from traditional approaches to consultation, this project places those with lived experience of homelessness at the heart of the creative design and planning process to re-imagine emergency shelters, temporary accommodation and supported housing.
A recurring theme from those sessions was that existing shelters often resemble prisons in both their structural layout and the way that many are managed.
This experiment was a collaboration between
Bauman Lyons Architects, Good Organisation, York Design Week and LIFE, as part of the Lived Experience working group at York MCN.
Download the findings from the four workshops, that were run during York Design Week 2020, within the experiment that created the typology for the final ‘blueprint’ aimed to support future service development.
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