Re:Solution is a group of community activists & designers, interested setting up urban sustainability projects.  We like to get out there and promote our ideas to potential partners, and then work with them to realise projects.  We are always looking for new ideas to develop and new communities to work with.

Ideally, we like to work directly with community groups, whether these are existing ones or groups which we help to get established.  We also work with local authorities as they recognise that the projects we seek to establish meet many of their policy objectives. 

On this site you’ll find information about our current initiative ‘Edible Estates’.  Over past six years we have been involved in researching and promoting best practice in urban greenspace regeneration, and have set up of sixteen community gardens around Edinburgh.  In the coming years, our plans are to begin work on a new initiative to promote the development of ‘co-housing‘ projects based on the Scandinavian model.

We tend to get involved in project ideas and methods which aren’t already in the mainstream.  We like to find out by doing, applying ourselves to a new problem and finding solutions.  Not for us, navel gazing exercises that don’t ever get off the page, we want to launch in and do.   

We like to collaborate in terms of who we work for, and who works with us.  We have a small team and tend to sub-contract rather than employ.  Our initiatives aren’t rocket science, they’re often very simple ideas, but they do take some doing, and that does need a special type of person which is creative, optimistic, determined and believes in what they do.

Likewise we always seek to develop the capacity of client communities to deliver the project for themselves.  As the adage goes, “teach a man to fish..”, with the appropriate support and training from us we hope to hand over projects to communities such that they can manage them and make them grow.