CRAWL World Café 2024 - a collective design approach for walkable and liveable communities
The key to creating walkable, liveable spaces involves engaging trans-disciplinary practitioners and policymakers to avoid siloed approaches. Following the Walk 21 Ireland conference, CRAWL (Campuses Role as Actors in Walkable and Liveable Communities) Principal Investigators Dr Lorraine D’Arcy and Dr Eoin McGillicuddy led the CRAWL World Café on 7 February 2024 at TU Dublin’s Blanchardstown campus.
The event convened 70 people including planning, engineering, health, and environmental sector experts, policymakers, TU Dublin students, researchers and staff and the wider community with Minister Jack Chambers T.D. also in attendance.
TU Dublin and the Office of the Planning Regulator, received funding from the Science Foundation Ireland's (SFI) National Challenge Fund Sustainable Communities Challenge.
The gathering, which was the first formal CRAWL engagement event, identified challenges and needs, laying the groundwork for a collective design approach. Ongoing projects utilising TU Dublin campuses as testbeds include: Air Quality Education, Tool Monitoring and Walkability Audits.
During the event stakeholders emphasised the importance of sustained dialogue and collaboration leading to an annual World Café event being established.
