Shaping the future through open conversations
Helen Graham The design proposals for the Eye of York – the space between the Female Prison, the Debtors Prison (York Castle Museum) and the Court – have brought into focus a choice about the space and its specific character within the reshaped Castle Gateway. The current grass roundabout known as the Eye of York facilitates traffic … Read more
By the end of May 2021 the My Castle Gateway design process was at a level of detail where we could suggest how different parts of the Castle Gateway area will feel and work. For the May events and social media discussions we shared the design thinking so far, showed how the design ideas were … Read more
4th May 2021 As we move towards developing design ideas for the new public spaces a crucial issue to consider is how to remember the 1190 massacre of York’s Jewish community. Throughout the My Castle Gateway project – in order to inform the masterplan and the new public spaces – a number of meetings have … Read more
The conversations about the future of York Castle Museum have always been a central to My Castle Gateway. From Reyahn King, York Museums Trust’s Chief Executive setting out visions for the museum in 2018 and 2019 to the series of public events in October 2019 identifying how movement to and through the site can be … Read more
The design process is starting to move into a level of detail and is now suggesting how different parts of the Castle Gateway area will feel and work. We are at a point where we can start to be more specific about how people might be able to use the different areas and what their … Read more
We’ll have design ideas to share in May but meanwhile we’re sharing some work-in-progress which explores how to allocate space to different activities in the Castle Gateway area. How can we contribute to the design process by applying some of the questions that came out of the last round of engagement to this initial thinking? … Read more
The Castle Gateway designers have been reading the New Public Spaces Open Brief, analysing the issues and crystallizing the challenges. Through a series of My Castle Gateway public events and social media conversations we used this analysis to draw out key questions that can be used by the designers to shape initial design ideas over … Read more
The My Castle Gateway Open Brief has been read and fully digested by BDP, the designers working on changing the Castle Car Park into York’s new public space. In their first piece of work they are drawing on the Open Brief, to do a further layer of analysis and to identify challenges and opportunities. My … Read more
Designers have started work turning the My Castle Gateway New Public Spaces Open Brief into first designs. Last summer many conversations, walks and events were turned into an Open Brief for the new public spaces in the Castle Gateway area. The Open Brief describes what people would like to be able to do in the … Read more
The council’s proposal for a new multi-storey car park on St.George’s Field – to replace Castle Car Park – gained planning approval last week. The requirement for replacement parking has always been part of the brief for the work to the area. That requirement shaped the original My Castle Gateway public engagement back in 2017, … Read more