Sophia de Sousa, Author at The Glass-House

Sharing Place: Common Ground Event Blog

On 27 February, we were at Live Works in Sheffield, for Common Ground, the first in-person WEdesign event in this […]

Posted on Mar 4, 2025

Making the Case for Caretakers

One of the roles that seems to have become increasingly rare over recent years, particularly in the context of housing, […]

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Posted on Feb 12, 2025

Planting Seeds for Sharing Place

Our upcoming in-person events that form part of our 2024/25 WEdesign series, Sharing Place, are spaces for people to get […]

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Posted on Feb 5, 2025

Sharing Place: Think Piece by Sophia de Sousa

This is the first in our series of Sharing Place Think Pieces, part of The Glass-House 2024/25 WEdesign event series […]

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Posted on Jan 31, 2025

What? in Housing

Last night, I attended a Negroni Housing Roundtable, part of the Negroni Talks Series at the Architectural Association School of […]

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Posted on Jan 29, 2025

A New International Participatory Charter

The UN Habitat Professionals Forum (HPF) recently launched The International Participatory Charter for Urban and Territorial Development to deliver the […]

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Posted on Nov 19, 2024

Glass-House Chats: Should we build less and reuse more in placemaking?

In this month’s chat we explored the delicate balance between reuse, refurbishment and new build.

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Posted on Nov 18, 2024

Co-production & Community Engagement

Last week, I went to a thought-provoking event, How Co-production Creates Better Places, organised by Future of London (FoL). The […]

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Posted on Nov 12, 2024

The Third Sector, Higher Education & Collaborative Research

Universities and other research institutions are increasingly interested in working with community and voluntary sector partners through research. Many are […]

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Posted on Oct 29, 2024