Neighbourhoods by Design Digital: facilitating a digital design workshop

Last week, The Glass-House Team delivered our first completely digital version of our Homes & Neighbourhoods by Design course for […]

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Posted on Oct 22, 2020

What’s Vital Now? ‘What If….We Did Our Bit?

I’m one of the lucky Londoners to have nature on my doorstep. The Roding Valley Park is just a short […]

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Posted on Sep 29, 2020

‘Sense of Belonging and Togetherness’ – Creating Better Neighbourhoods

As part of Quality of Life Foundation‘s Sense of Belonging and Togetherness Panel Discussion our Chief Executive Sophia was posed […]

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Posted on Sep 3, 2020

Reopening High Streets Safely – and Strategically

On Friday morning, I was asked to speak on BBC Surrey Breakfast Radio about how places can use the new MHCLG Reopening High Streets Safely Fund to help bring their communities out of lockdown.

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Posted on Jun 9, 2020

Reclaiming Streets for People

The city of Milan recently announced that they are radically rethinking how movement around their city centre will work in […]

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Posted on May 7, 2020

Taking Co-design Online

By Grace Crannis & Sophia de Sousa Like everyone, we at The Glass-House are grappling with how we can carry […]

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Posted on Apr 3, 2020

Making Communities Stronger Through Collaboration and Sharing

By Sophia de Sousa For some time, The Glass-House has been interested in the concept of the collaborative economy and […]

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Posted on Mar 30, 2020

EDP Live: celebrating community-led design in historic places of worship

By Sophia de Sousa and Katerina Alexiou On 12 February, 2020, The Empowering Design Practices research team gathered with partners […]

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Posted on Mar 10, 2020

Co-designing a co-design workshop

The reinvention of a Glass-House stalwart: Design by Consensus By Grace Crannis, Sophia de Sousa and Myra Stuart   “Co-designing […]

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Posted on Jul 4, 2019

Mobilising change: a space for reflection and sharing

By Sophia de Sousa Mobilising change: towards collaborative placemaking, the final event in our 2018/19 WE design series, took place […]

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Posted on Apr 5, 2019