Projects
A participatory-design study for Cobalt Business Park
Cobalt Office Park is the largest of its kind in the UK with 12000 workers. Located in North Tyneside, this edge city environment, is neither urban in the traditional sense, nor a greenfield science or technology park yet constitutes a highly significant, and under-researched, type of place in people’s daily lives. Greater or lesser ecological sustainability can be enacted and take root in such spaces; for this the project seeks to engage Cobalt workers, particularly in optimising their work-life balance as well as engaging local residents in extending existing sustainable practices in such ‘non-places’ bordering their residential areas.
Key Collaborators: Prof Geoff Vigar (PI) Dr Abigail Schoneboom (urban sociologist)
ARC People: Armelle Tardiveau Daniel Mallow