| Community Engagement: WikiHouse Project | Case study | 1 WikiHouse Project Overview Architecture students from The University of Edinburgh’s School of Architecture worked with students from Heriot-Watt University on a project to test their skills in digital fabrication using WikiHouse (an open source construction system for sustainable homes and technologies that can be customised, locally manufactured and self- assembled). The aim of the project was to demonstrate the power of digital fabrication in empowering communities to self-assemble high-quality construction. The students therefore teamed up with the Baltic Street Adventure Playground (BSAP) Dalmarnock, Glasgow, to use the opportunity to design and construct a WikiHouse playground ‘plotting s

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