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
New Year’s resolutions for housing
In recent weeks, various stories and statistics in the press have evidenced that tackling our housing crisis is not as […]
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Posted on Jan 5, 2018
The Glass-House response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy
Much has been said and written about the tragedy at Grenfell Tower in the last few days. As a nation […]
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Posted on Jun 19, 2017
Get inspired by Alder Hey in the Park
I recently visited Alder Hey in the Park, a new children’s hospital in Liverpool, and was hugely impressed by their […]
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Posted on May 11, 2017