Cardigan Commons: Research Project Summary

<p dir="ltr">RMIT PlaceLab’s Cardigan Commons Research Project explored the potential of Cardigan Street, Carlton to transform into a more inclusive, collaborative and wild ‘greenscape’, with a focus on community perspectives and aspirations.</p><p dir="ltr">What would it look like to transform Cardigan Street into an innovative green space that enhances local ecology, environmental health, and community wellbeing? We explored this question by investigating community perspectives and hopes for the streetscape, barriers and concerns about the change, opportunities to shift perspectives, and collaborative ways to design a space. The project engaged with local community groups and key stakeholders using both online surveys and face-to-face workshops. Activity culminated in a Zine outlining the Project’s of findings, an Exhibition showcasing both student and community visions for the future of Cardigan Street, as well as a series of on-street planting eco-system prototypes. Through these efforts we hoped to help create new visions of what Cardigan Street could become, and a community engaged in the process of its becoming.</p>