Association of Collaborative Design
The Association of Collaborative Design CIC (ACD) purpose:
" Mainstreaming collaborative design across the built environment, democratising design, creating better neighbourhoods, and inspiring long-term stewardship.
ACD brings people together through a shared passion for co-design and participatory engagement. We grow and support a network of built environment professionals and academics and provide resources, research, and a platform for knowledge-sharing.
Our aims are (https://www.theacd.org.uk/about):
- Championing
- Networking
- Research
- Events and Training
- Collaboration
The ACD brings together a network of individuals, practitioners, professionals and organisations that endorse the collaborative process of creating and managing environments with and for people and nature. The ACD was founded in 2020 as a 100% voluntary Community Interest Company (CIC) with a team from a mixture of industry and academia.
This process promotes change to the built environment from the street to the neighbourhood to the regional scale. It aims to meet needs through participatory and democratic decision-making
We align with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11.3 "By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanisation and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries."
In 2020 we organised the ACD Conference, from 2021 onwards, we regular host ACD Conversation Labs and from 2021 to 2022, ACD was a World Urban Campaign Partner with UN-Habitat. ACD was the lead author and in partnership with RIBA, and Sustrans, published Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work.