Design-led events in collaborative planning: improving post-event planning and delivery

Purpose Design-led events are known under a range of different titles such charrettes, participatory placemaking, co-design and enquiry by design. Rather than being standalone, form one single step in multi-stage collaborative planning process. What comes after them has to be acknowledged as important their effective contribution planning. To date, no coherent body empirical evidence on the aftermath been published demonstrating critical factors that contribute success. Design/methodology/approach The paper’s significance resides identifying an extended framework for stages process highlighting issues ensuring aspirations concerns expressed stakeholders throughout acted delivered, namely, subsequent decision-making delivery; follow-on support, resourcing funding; legal status related governance issues; appropriate monitoring evaluation practices. Findings paper provides guidance professional local who expected carry burden acting outputs arising from events. successful, based longitudinal stakeholder engagement – both long before but also It is here results reported lie. Originality/value originality this lies its attempt broaden understanding what happens following design-led events, drawing interviews with lay participants held across Scotland over past decade.