New Endings offers fresh start for Cardiff's dead ends

[A]rchitects and Grangetown residents Kevin Hong and Mhairi McVicar of the Collaborative Design Studio realised these dead ends can also offer new beginnings, that they are opportunities for creating meeting places, talking places, growing places, swapping places and places for play. They set up New Endings as a project to identify these dead ends and engage the community in creating and possibly implementing new uses and interesting designs for these sites. In the middle of last year I joined them in the project and together with other colleagues and Grangetown residents we secured some funding from towards the initial stages of the project the Arts Council of Wales and the RSA Catalyst Fund.

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