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I\u2019ll admit it, I\u2019m not the best fan of organised networking, but RSA Fellows Reboot<\/a> creates a refreshing change by introducing creative techniques to make it fun. On one of these Reboots, I bumped into Catherine Greig<\/a>, founder and director of make:good<\/a>, a \u201csmall but mighty design studio that engages with communities to create positive change in their neighbourhood.A few days later, we were sat drinking builder\u2019s tea in her new studio, where the smell of paint and the sound of drilling provided the background senses to the interview. Enjoy!Tell us a bit about what make:good is all about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an architecture design practice that works with community groups in particular neighbourhoods to help them think about change in their space.<\/p>\n

You studied architecture. How did that influence your design practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architecture is definitely one of those courses where what people think it is on the outside is different from what it actually is on the inside. You do a lot of thinking about space \u2013 outdoor and indoor buildings, as well as spaces in between buildings.<\/p>\n

Over the space of six years at university, I started to hone in on what I was really interested in. People on my course mainly focused on buildings, but my work was all about the places in between and how the people who live around these spaces can influence what happens within them and how they\u2019re run<\/strong><\/span>. So it was a natural progression that when I left university I knew the work I wanted to do.<\/p>\n

When you say that you knew what you wanted to do, was there a particular trigger that made you think \u201cthis is what I want to do\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was much more incremental in some ways, figuring that out. make:good has a very wide portfolio of work and it\u2019s about that journey where I\u2019m interested in lots of different things. When I left university I knew that I didn\u2019t want to go and build buildings. That was the one thing that I knew I didn\u2019t\u2019 want to do. There are enough buildings out there.<\/p>\n

My final project had been quite different to what the rest of my year group were doing, because I started looking more at adventure playgrounds and the way they were set up in the 1970s. I thought that the idea of people taking over an abandoned space and matching it with a need and saying \u201cyou know what, let\u2019s just do it ourselves\u201d<\/strong><\/span>. I thought \u201cI want to do something like that\u201d.<\/p>\n