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Co-design has become a prominent vocabulary in UK urban design and planning. This article examines it as an urban practice embedded in everyday spatial conditions shaped by neoliberal restructuring and austerity. Through a critical narrative review and analysis of 23 policy and municipal documents, it develops three analytical categories: temporal compression, responsibilisation and the datafication of lived conflict.

This paper traces the shift from post-war democratic design governance to an era marked by privatisation, depoliticisation and weakened public oversight. It frames street furniture as an in-between architecture of urban politics and examines how public engagement moved from formal debate into appropriation, subversion and local customisation.

A historical and theoretical account of public art exhibitions as spatial practices through which urban political conflict, public agency and everyday resistance are organised and made visible.

Using Henri Lefebvre’s spatial dialectics, field interviews and audiovisual experimentation, this research culminates in the essay film Poetry Grows in the Kitchen. It proposes artmaking as a narrative intervention capable of producing representational image-space and reactivating urban difference, imagination and self-identification.

This article investigates how members of the public appropriate street furniture in Kensington and Chelsea. It reads small acts of use, adaptation and conflict as forms of place-making that reveal the political relations embedded in ordinary urban objects.