Creating places which enrich human experience.
Placemaking with people, for people.
Building trust with communities is the most challenging yet invaluable strategy for success, enabling communities to flourish, and ensuring adaptability and resilience of development. The needs of communities are highly personal, interconnected and deeply rooted in everyday experiences. Understanding these needs is a multi-layered and complex process, but essential to an effective development strategy.
We have developed an integrated, systemic approach to engagement and social and human value in placemaking that is innovative, evidence-based and uses empirically proven tools and processes to generate multiple simultaneous key social value and engagement outcomes to maximise the potential of placemaking.
How do we maximise social and economic value?
We bring, innovation in community engagement, and excellence in community communications. We empower communities to co-create places and spaces that fit for them and that maximise the untapped social and economic value in every community.
Co-creating places:
We bring, innovation in community engagement, and excellence in community communications. We empower communities to co-create places and spaces that fit for them and that maximise the untapped social and economic value in every community.
Maximising social and economic value:
Co-creating places with communities allows us to create multiple economic, social, engagement and wellbeing outcomes that maximise the benefits for both the communities and stakeholders we work with.
Evidence based:
Our innovative approach is underpinned by primary data from communities and cutting-edge psychological and social science research, for maximum impact.
Impact focused:
We draw on and have created leading digital and place-based engagement approaches to generate rich data to evidence the multiple benefits of our contextual interventions.
What will we deliver?
We will develop a deep understanding of local priorities through community immersion, asset mapping, and strategic policy analysis.
Through a facilitated co-design process, we produce a strategy that aligns with both community priorities, your business aspirations and investment drivers.
Through immersive community engagement and trust building, we co-create places with communities that creates local economic enhancement via community wealth building and community ownership through participatory design and stewarding.
We co-create places that generate the crucial psychological and social aspects of positive community life through enhancing sense of belonging, agency, civic trust and community ownership of place and we create spaces where physical and mental health wellbeing are mapped and built into the design process.
We evidence economic, social and health benefits through innovative outputs including social infrastructure analysis, assets and deficit analysis, community health and wellbeing mapping and a bespoke community wealth building roadmap.
Dr Paul Hanna
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
HEAD OF SOCIETAL INSIGHTS
BA (hons), MSc, PhD, CPsychol
Dr Paul Hanna is a chartered psychologist with over 16 years’ experience in academia and industry. During his time at Hoare Lea, Paul has worked on a number of projects to bring a truly human-centric understanding to our approach. Paul joined Hoare Lea in 2022 and leads the Societal Insights Unit.
He is working on a range of active projects which cover Masterplanning, assets, and portfolios. His current work is focused around understanding and advising on community engagement, co-production, and empirically supported theoretical insights in relation to the human and social pillars of sustainability.
Start a conversation: PaulHanna@hoarelea.com
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