Urban Lexicons invites creative doers and critical thinkers to help set the direction for an emerging area of people-led, place-based activity and learning.
This growing community of practice and research was initiated between Central Saint Martins Research Associate Rosanna Vitiello and Research Fellow Marcus Willcocks. This community is connected by events, workshops, action research, and community-led pilots.
We began with a mash-up between the disciplines of socially responsive and story-driven design to explore the opportunities to bring people, soul or character back into the processes of urban evolution.
Urban Lexicons draws inspiration from an ongoing body of research and design responses, first initiated by Rosanna Vitiello and Marcus Willcocks in 2008. It builds on voice, city stories, street character and how collective create urban languages that we can connect to and converse with, through words and through everday activity.
See the Publications section for a sample of written work we have published and contributed to, over the past 15+ years.