The Role of Effective Community Design Engagement Strategies

Setting a design engagement strategy starts with a commitment to investing sufficient time, research, conversations and planning to explore and […]

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Posted on Nov 24, 2022

Unpicking Design Engagement

What The Glass-House refers to as “design engagement” is often quite different from the standard consultation we see on most […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Nov 17, 2022

Engaging Communities in Design Decision Making

In the past few months, we’ve had some interesting conversations within communities, with local authorities, with designers and a range […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Nov 10, 2022

Welcoming Louise Dennison to The Glass-House

We are pleased to welcome a new member of the Glass-House team. Louise Dennison joins us as our WEdesign Programme […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Aug 15, 2022

A Place I Love: Via dei Servi by Sophia de Sousa

I spent 14 years as a young adult living in Florence, and Via dei Servi was my local high street. […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Aug 10, 2022

Seeking Archivist / Data Management Specialist

​​The Glass-House is looking for an archivist and/or data management specialist to help us develop a comprehensive digital data management […]

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Posted on Jul 20, 2022

GLASS-HOUSE CHATS: Guerilla Urbanism – an approach to consider?

Our June Glass-House Chat, Guerilla Urbanism – an approach to consider?, set out to explore guerilla urbanism, which is generally […]

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Posted on Jul 20, 2022

People Powered Places: Empowering community champions as experts

May 2022 People Powered Places is Metropolitan Workshop‘s second annual practice-based research project. It aims to explore innovative methods of […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on May 30, 2022

Cross-pollinating Glasgow

On 26 April, we gathered together a group of people in the East End of Glasgow, for Share, Connect, Create Glasgow, to talk about how they might work together to make interesting things happen in that neighbourhood and in the city as a whole.

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on May 10, 2022

Join The Glass-House Team

Seeking our new WEdesign Programme Manager. We are recruiting a new member of The Glass-House team to be our WEdesign […]

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Posted on Mar 28, 2022