The Glass-House organises and contributes to a wide range of public events held across the UK.
Upcoming events
Glass-House Chats: Can we improve health through placemaking?
16th Jan 2025
Sharing Place: The Debate
5th Feb 2025 - 5th Feb 2025
Common Ground
27th Feb 2025 - 27th Feb 2025 · Sheffield
Living in Agreement
5th Mar 2025 - 5th Mar 2025 · Glasgow
Glass-House Chats: Sharing Place
13th Mar 2025
The Healthy City
18th Mar 2025 - 18th Mar 2025 · London
Communities of Care
24th Mar 2025 - 24th Mar 2025 · Newcastle
Sharing Place: Closing Event
2nd Apr 2025 - 2nd Apr 2025
Glass-House Chats: Does practice make perfect in place?
17th Apr 2025
Glass-House Chats: Do the right people have power in place?
15th May 2025
Glass-House Chats: Is our view of place too short-sighted?
19th Jun 2025
Glass-House Chats: Do we accept the status quo in place?
17th Jul 2025Glass-House Series
Past events
Glass-House Chats: Can young people be placemakers?
12th Dec 2024
The Connected City
27th Nov 2024Chichester
Glass-House Chats: Should we build less and reuse more?
14th Nov 2024
Glass-House Chats: Can housing be a catalyst for great places?
17th Oct 2024
AHRC Place Programme Policy Brief: Cross-sector collaboration and co-design
9th Oct 2024
CODESIGN AND COHOUSING: Creating Better Places Together
2nd Oct 2024London
Jar-gone Conversations: Breaking Down Industry Jargon
29th Jun 2024London
Glass-House Chats: The Right to Shape Places
25th Jun 2024
Glass-House Chats: Wellbeing and Placemaking
28th May 2024
Glass-House Chats: Has Public Transport Hit the Buffers?
30th Apr 2024
Urban Futures: Sharing Capacity and Resources
19th Mar 2024 - 19th Mar 2024Newcastle upon Tyne
Glass-House Chats: People, Place, Planet
12th Mar 2024
The Ethical City
5th Mar 2024 - 5th Mar 2024Glasgow
The Leisure Society
28th Feb 2024 - 28th Feb 2024Sheffield
Inclusive Crisis Recovery
5th Feb 2024 - 5th Feb 2024London
Glass-House Chats: Spaces for Culture
23rd Jan 2024
People, Place, Planet: The Debate
17th Jan 2024 - 17th Jan 2024
Maintaining Sustainable partnerships in the Creative Industries
11th Jan 2024
Glass-House Chats: Careful Construction
12th Dec 2023
Glass-House Chats: Growing Places
14th Nov 2023
Glass-House Chats: Housing or Homes?
17th Oct 2023
Community Action in Action
10th Oct 2023London
State of Play: Full-day design and gaming workshop
27th Jul 2023 - 27th Jul 2023LONDON
Glass-House Chats: Resilient Places Roundtable
25th Jul 2023
Young People Making Places: Cement Fields x The Glass-House Webinar
20th Jul 2023
Co-creating a Collaborative City
24th Jun 2023London
Glass-House Chats: What is a Resilient City?
15th Jun 2023
Glass-House Chats: Building Green Equitable Futures
18th May 2023
Glass-House Chats: Co-creating Circular Cities
27th Apr 2023
Relearning Place: REpurpose
28th Mar 2023London
Glass-House Chats: Arts-led Regeneration or Gentrification?
23rd Mar 2023
Share, Connect, Create: Gilmerton & Liberton
9th Mar 2023Edinburgh
Relearning Place: REdefine
8th Mar 2023Glasgow
Relearning Place: REdistribute
1st Mar 2023Sheffield
Relearning Place: REvalue
22nd Feb 2023Newcastle upon Tyne
Glass-House Chats: How Can We Relearn our Places?
16th Feb 2023
Relearning Place: The Debate
8th Feb 2023
Glass-House Chats: How Can We Co-design With Nature?
26th Jan 2023
Glass-House Chats: Co-design Legacies: What Happens Next?
15th Dec 2022
FoL: What is co-production and how can it work in the built environment?
24th Nov 2022
Glass-House Chats: How Can We Use Stories to Change Places?
24th Nov 2022
Homes & Neighbourhoods by Design Introductory Workshop
19th Nov 2022 - 19th Nov 2022
UDL Digital Engagement
16th Nov 2022
Glass-House Chats: What is Placemaking Now?
20th Oct 2022
UDL Working with Residents
6th Oct 2022
Come Together: How Can Design Build Stronger Communities?
21st Sep 2022 - 21st Sep 2022London
The State of Play
12th Aug 2022 - 12th Aug 2022Sheffield
Glass-House Chats: Guerilla urbanism - an approach to consider?
14th Jul 2022
Glass-House Chats: Challenging stereotypes through co-design
10th Jun 2022
ExploreStation: Online Workshop
26th May 2022
ExploreStation: Brighton Workshop
25th May 2022Brighton
ExploreStation: Manchester Workshop
12th May 2022Manchester
ExploreStation: Liverpool Workshop
11th May 2022Liverpool
Glass-House Chats: Making as a design engagement tool
6th May 2022
ExploreStation: Round 2 Workshops and Events
2nd May 2022 - 31st May 2022Across the UK
ExploreStation: Round 2 Events and Workshops
2nd May 2022 - 31st May 2022
Share, Connect, Create - Glasgow
26th Apr 2022Glasgow
Glass-House Chats: Breaking down jargon in design and placemaking
8th Apr 2022
Share, Connect, Create
1st Apr 2022
Sustainability: Designing sustainable high streets
30th Mar 2022Sheffield
Glass-House Chats: Building authentic relationships through design and placemaking
18th Mar 2022
Cultural Influences: Exploring who is missing in placemaking
10th Mar 2022
Diversifying Design: Urban ecology by, with and for diverse actors
24th Feb 2022
Glass-House Chats: Making the case for investment in inclusive design
4th Feb 2022
Glass-House Chats: Inclusive and open design engagement
14th Jan 2022
Glass-House Chats: Designing equitable spaces for all
10th Dec 2021
Glass-House Chats: Connecting students and community-led design projects
12th Nov 2021
RIBA Guerrilla Tactics 2021:Stop, Collaborate and Listen!
9th Nov 2021 - 11th Nov 2021
ExploreStation: Cardiff Exhibition and Workshop
4th Nov 2021Cardiff
ExploreStation: Bristol Exhibition and Workshop
3rd Nov 2021Bristol
ExploreStation: Sheffield Exhibition and Workshop
2nd Nov 2021Sheffield
Place Equity: Making great public spaces a reality for everyone
13th Oct 2021 - 13th Oct 2021
Local Places, Global Issues: 2021/22 WEdesign event series
13th Oct 2021 - 31st Mar 2022
Glass-House Chats: Bringing children into the design process
8th Oct 2021
Co-designing Design Codes: How could meaningful community engagement work?
7th Oct 2021
Glass-House Chats: Future-proofing the design of places
10th Sep 2021
Glass-House Chats - Series 2
10th Sep 2021 - 14th Jul 2022
Co-design and the role of public makerspaces in the UK and China
8th Sep 2021
AHRC Town Hall: Place and the Arts and Humanities
26th Jul 2021
Union Chapel: Sunday School Stories Workshop
15th Jul 2021
Glass-House Chats: Community design review panels: how could they work?
9th Jul 2021
Glass-House Chats: Building Design Engagement Capacity in Local Authorities
11th Jun 2021
Redbridge, What Would You Do with this Space?
22nd May 2021
Glass-House Chats: Digitising Design Engagement
14th May 2021
Urban Design London Code School - Codes, Guides and Communities
10th May 2021
Glass-House Chats: Design engagement - what does it mean?
16th Apr 2021
The UK High Street: Redefining the Future of Retail & Planning for Life after Lockdown
1st Apr 2021
Co-design in the Time of Covid
25th Mar 2021
Glass-House Chats: Building Social Value into Design & Placemaking
12th Mar 2021
Harnessing the Elements: Towards Zero-carbon Neighbourhoods
4th Mar 2021
Water Works: People & Materiality in Place
25th Feb 2021
Growing Redbridge Together Launch
19th Feb 2021
ACD Conversation Lab 3 - Fostering creative citizens through co-design
17th Feb 2021
Glass-House Chats: Unlocking Cross-sector Collaboration in Placemaking
12th Feb 2021
Glass-House Chats: Unlocking Cross-sector Collaboration in Placemaking
20th Jan 2021
Participatory Design: RSA Student Design Awards Workshop
4th Dec 2020
Co-designing Sustainable Places: 2020/21 WEdesign Event Series
26th Nov 2020 - 25th Mar 2021
The Air We Share: Inclusion & Policy
26th Nov 2020
Urban Design London - Working with Local Communities
5th Nov 2020
Virtual workshop: Co-design for new forms of urban living
14th Oct 2020 - 16th Dec 2020
Belonging and Togetherness Panel Discussion
3rd Sep 2020
Reconfiguring Place: What’s Vital Now?
30th Apr 2020London
Reconfiguring Place: Housing
26th Feb 2020
Empowering Design Practices: LIVE
12th Feb 2020London
Think Station: your ideas for a new passenger hub
11th Dec 2019Bristol
Reconfiguring Place: High Streets
27th Nov 2019Blackpool
RIBA Guerrilla Tactics 2019
6th Nov 2019London
DOTI fest 2019 | a festival of new design ideas
31st Oct 2019
Reconfiguring Place: Intergenerational Cities
17th Oct 2019
13th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners 2019 | Planning Fringe
11th Sep 2019Plymouth
Training for architects: community-led design in historic faith buildings
9th Jul 2019
21st Hertfordshire Housing Conference
14th May 2019
Engaging communities in design decision-making
30th Apr 2019
Mobilising change: towards collaborative design
26th Mar 2019
Portobello connects: collaborative placemaking on the Edinburgh shoreline
26th Feb 2019
Supporting Historic High Streets: The Ingredients for Success in the 21st Century
22nd Jan 2019Oxford
Hosted Study Tour: Faith, Community and Design | Liverpool
16th Jan 2019Liverpool
RIBA Event Programme | Community engagement: collaborative design techniques
16th Jan 2019 - 26th Nov 2019Various
Reimagining Moorfoot: co-design, connections and city spaces
28th Nov 2018Sheffield
Using film as a tool for engagement in your design process
21st Nov 2018Bristol
Planning the Future of British High Streets: Working Together to Revive City Centres
31st Oct 2018
Beyond Buzzwords: the language of collaborative design
17th Oct 2018London
Historic Places of Worship Study Tour - London
22nd Aug 2018London
Places for Connection workshop at Tate Exchange
24th May 2018London
Beyond Participation #2 - Dublin
9th Mar 2018Dublin 2
The right to great design - London
7th Feb 2018London
The right to great design - Bristol
8th Nov 2017Bristol
The right to great design - Sheffield
27th Sep 2017Sheffield
The right to great design - Edinburgh
19th Jul 2017Edinburgh
Future of London Placemaking Conference
28th Jun 2017 - 28th Jun 2017London
CSGN Forum: How green infrastructure is transforming the way we live
15th Jun 2017Edinburgh
The Big Meet 7: Engaging Communities in Placemaking
25th Apr 2017London
Civic Voice Design Awards study tour - Alder Hey Children's Hospital
24th Apr 2017Liverpool
Architecture, Faith and Community
28th Feb 2017London
Towards a Definition of Placemaking
8th Feb 2017
How can we improve existing places for the future?
2nd Feb 2017
Civic Voice Design Awards study tour - All Souls Bolton
27th Jan 2017
Shared Spaces: the modern place of worship
25th Nov 2016
More than Bricks and Stones: Unlocking the potential of heritage
24th Nov 2016London
I want that one! Does community consultation produce good design?
15th Jul 2016London
4x4 Manchester 2016 - LOVE
11th May 2016Manchester
Place: who belongs here?
9th Mar 2016London
Place: a shared responsibility?
3rd Feb 2016Nottingham
Urban Democracy Workshop / The Academy of Urbanism Congress
10th Jun 2015London
People, Place, Planet: 2023/24 WEdesign Event Series
Glass-House Chats: Series 4
Relearning Place: 2022/23 WEdesign Event Series
Glass-House Chats - Series 3
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Supporting dialogue
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