We help you deliver more inclusive spaces which really work for teenage girls.
Our information and advice can help built environment professionals embed equity for teenage girls - and others - into their projects from the very start.
We work with architects, landscape architects and planners to address
The issues with current provision
We have lots of specific insight into the issues including our research report. And there’s even more information available in our resource library. But we’re always very happy to chat and find out how we can help you further.
What teenage girls want from parks and public spaces
Our research can give you ideas and examples of what teenage girls want from public space.
From this, we can help you deliver places which are more inclusive of teenage girls, either through CPD for your design team, or as a critical friend for specific developments.
What better design looks like
We have case studies from abroad along with ideas and research that can prompt teenagers and designers to collaborate and produce areas that work better for teenage girls.
Ensuring teenage girls are heard
Often the voices of teenage girls simply aren't there when engagement happens. We can help create a two way, on-going process, which results in informed input, a shared sense of ownership in a project and better, more inclusive outcomes.
We can help in the following areas
Work as a critical friend for specific developments or areas of a plan
We add value by bringing an outside perspective, asking different questions and looking at designs through a lens that recognizes that gender plays an important role in how people access and enjoy the public realm.
Develop and deliver engagement targeted specifically at teenage girls
We are committed to a model of listening to teenage girls and seeking to address their concerns that goes beyond a standard consultation or one off workshop.
Provide training for the design team
Teenage girls are not designers and we don't expect them to be. Your teams have the creative talent to realize their ideas and produce designs for the inclusive spaces they need. We can help by providing training to ensure that team members have a common understanding of the issues and how these can be addressed.
Over the last year, we’ve presented to more than a thousand design professionals and other stakeholders as CPD and at conferences.
Talk to us about how we can work together to create better spaces.
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Engagement
It’s essential to engage with teenage girls if we want to make parks and public spaces which work for them. This collection of resources will help us to hear those harder to reach voices and enable them to articulate what they need from parks and public space.
What does better
look like?
We’ve created some images to get people talking about what might be found in spaces designed with girls in mind. There isn’t an “off the shelf” solution. Key to making space work for girls is talking to teenage girls, to understand their take on their local spaces, the barriers they face to enjoying these spaces and involving them in the design process.
