Co-Lateral Learning Platform; a Roadmap for External-Collaborator Engagement in Architecture Live Projects

The thesis highlights the positive value of co-design within architecture and its education, demonstrating the empowerment of communities and positive societal change achievable through collaborative working between universities and their locality. The thesis contributes the newly constructed Co-Lateral Learning Platform and Roadmap for External-Collaborator Engagement, which identify the previously unexplored possibility that individuals commissioning architectural works gain new knowledge, and develop new skills, through participatory co-design. The findings are an important tool in the development of architectural pedagogy as, for the first time, they establish what the positive outcomes for non-students engaged in architecture live projects are.