Glass-House Chats are monthly hour-long online spaces for conversation and connection, to ask questions and explore ideas, approaches and methods, share learning and meet others. The sessions are chaired by The Glass-House team, who will briefly introduce the theme and then open the floor for an informal and open discussion among participants.
To ensure space for open meaningful discussion, places are limited to a small group, with the Chatham House Rule applied. Key discussion points will be collated, anonymised and shared after each session.
Glass-House Chats are free events, but places are limited, so please register only if you plan to attend.
About this Session
Housing provision is badly needed in the UK and our new government has set a bold target of building 1.5 million high quality homes, putting in plans to speed up the construction of houses through major planning reform. But how can we ensure that development at this scale will produce great places where people want to, and can afford to live?
In the first of our new Chat series we will think about housing beyond the targets and units and ask what role housing plays in both shaping and supporting communities. How can building new homes help catalyse positive change to people, places and the environment?
About the Series
In this series of Glass-House Chats, we are revisiting the questions we asked a decade ago in our Glass-House Debate series Place Potential (2013/14) and To a More Ambitious Place (2014/15). All are questions that we feel are still hugely relevant today and that should be informing systemic change to how we shape where we live, work and play. We also hope that, 10 years on, bringing them to the Glass-House Chats space might help us gather some inspiring examples of how things are changing for the better.
If you would like to revisit our Debate Series for inspiration and hear what participants 10 years ago had to say, then please click on the links below.
Podcast / Round-up / Think piece #1, Think piece #2, Think piece #3