London FvLab lab, Methodology

Community-led co-production of public service provisions and policies

Fairville London Lab (FLL) aims to discover effective mechanisms of co-production that ae able to address issues on inequality, and that will be effective in a global city where decades of financialisation and wholesale gentrification have caused widespread public distrust in democratic institutions. FLL has three strands of work: street markets, social care and co-production of built environment. The approach adopted by this lab is action research. Multiple methodologies will be used to assess each projects capacity for change: Participatory Action Research; Ethnography; Case Studies; Qualitative Methods; Dialogic and Collaborative Approaches; Creative Methods and Collaborative Mapping. Since each project is coproduced with its intended beneficiaries these methods are adapted based on the conversations, concerns identified and approaches agreed by the participants.