Hartree has been nominated for a 2024 Pineapple Award in the category of Community Engagement.
The Pineapples, which are run by The Developer and Festival of Place, celebrate the very best in placemaking and place-led initiatives. The Community Engagement category is judged on how nominees have connected meaningfully with stakeholders and citizens, and how their feedback has shaped decision making on the project.
Over the last three years, the Hartree team, with Swedish master planners Kjellander Sjoberg, have engaged with communities across Cambridge. We have spoken to thousands of people through a series of pop-ups, roadshows, workshops, meetings, door-knocking sessions, and the People City Planet Festival that took place in 2022. Alongside our public engagement work, we have convened the Ideas Exchange, a demographically representative group of 18 residents from the surrounding area, who have been immersed in all elements of the design development process. We have also held targeted engagement workshop sessions with young people and those with disabilities, in partnership with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination, and Voiceability.
Shortlisted teams will present at the Festival of Place, which runs from 16th to 18th April and the winning projects will be announced on 16th May 2024.
Congratulations to everyone nominated!