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
So many of the decisions in placemaking that affect us in the long term are conditioned by the pressures to act within short-term political cycles, or to meet project or funding deadlines. In our haste to get things done, and to make the quick wins, are we compromising our long-term goals? Do we all need to take more responsibility for the consequences of our actions now on the future of our places and communities?
In our June Chat, we’ll be exploring the balance between opportunity and responsibility, and the challenge of combining short-term successes with a more strategic approach to achieving long-term goals.
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.