The Glass-House Summer 2024 Newsletter

This newsletter is dedicated to celebrating the power of bringing people together for a conversation, whether to share and reflect, co-create or to dream. Find out more about our call out for contributors, we want to hear YOUR voice on people, place and design. We also share some of the takeaways from our Chat events and we give a shout out to our friends at the Chichester Community Development Trust.

Louise Dennison Louise Dennison

Posted on Jul 25, 2024

Have Your Say on People, Place & Design

At The Glass-House, we see one of our key roles as a connector and want to share voices that may […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Jul 24, 2024

Glass-House Chats: The Right to Shape Places

For our last chat of the series, the topic of discussion was The Right to Shape Places. Our discussion explored the challenges different groups of people face, feeling they can or cannot shape the city around them, from policy to practise to placemaking.

Jake Stephenson-Bartley

Posted on Jul 3, 2024

Glass-House Chats: Wellbeing and Placemaking

This month’s Chat, focused on Wellbeing and Placemaking and explored the impact that designing for wellbeing can have on citizens and asked how wellbeing can be a more integral part of placemaking.

Louise Dennison

Posted on Jun 4, 2024

The Glass-House May 2024 Newsletter

This newsletter focuses on our upcoming Chat events, showcases the co-design method films which we developed with the Open University and also includes WEdesign participant blogs and our series publication for the People, Place, Planet WEdesign 2023/24 event series summary.

Louise Dennison

Posted on May 16, 2024

10 Years of Using ‘Design by Consensus’ in Education and Research

By Dr Busayawan Lam In this piece, Dr Buswayan Lam reflects on her experience of using The Glass-House workshop Design […]

Guest Author

Posted on May 8, 2024

Glass-House Chats: Has Public Transport Hit the Buffers?

This Chat, Has Public Transport Hit the Buffers?, explored people’s perceptions of public transport, whether within or between towns and […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on May 7, 2024

People, Place, Planet: The Ethical City Partner Blog

Read the reflection of Miranda Webster, tutor from Mackintosh School of Architecture, GSA and Co-founder of Missing in Architecture on The Ethical City, part of the 2023/24 WEdesign Series, People, Place, Planet.

Guest Author

Posted on May 1, 2024

People, Place, Planet: The Leisure Society Participant Blog

Read the reflection of participant Zelda Hannay of The Leisure Society event, part of the 2023/24 WEdesign Series, People, Place, Planet.

Guest Author

Posted on May 1, 2024

People, Place, Planet: Student Facilitator Blog

Shuqi Miao, a Sustainable Urbanism Masters student from UCL, gives her point of view about taking part in the London WEdesign co-design event at Alan Baxter Gallery, in February.

Guest Author

Posted on Apr 30, 2024