
Visioning Sustainable Places during Green Sky Thinking week
As part of Open City’s ‘Green Sky Thinking’ week (15-19 April), we ran a breakfast workshop ‘People, Place and Value: Visioning Sustainable […]

People, place and value: the golden triangle?
The day after our debate ‘People, place and value: the golden triangle?’ I spent the afternoon at Goldsmiths Community Centre […]

£1 Homes – an initiative to applaud
It’s about time that we looked at more creative, small-scale interventions to improve neighbourhoods and bring our failing streets, towns […]

New online network Community Design Exchange launches
By Katerina Alexiou & Theodore Zamenopoulos (Open University research partners) The Open University in collaboration with The Glass-House Community Led […]

Love and placemaking..
Intrinsic to everything we do at The Glass-House is the idea that people are at the heart of places, and […]

Does involving local people in placemaking make business sense?
“We’ve got to stop talking and start listening’, declared Guy Butler, Projects Director, Grosvenor as he opened the third debate […]

Exploring the role of churches in communities in East Yorkshire
Last Friday we met with ten clergy members at their retreat house near Skipton in the snowy picturesque Yorkshire Dales […]

Enabler dialogues: ‘How can design create/enable places of value?’
Glass-House Enablers Vera Hale and Liz Kessler attended our first Enabler Dialogue session at our office in November to discuss […]

“People have a lot of assets that they don’t realise they have”
“People have a lot of assets that they don’t realise they have.” – Sophia de Sousa Last week we took […]

New life in Fountainbridge
Earlier in November we supported a fantastic group who have come together to create a vision to breathe new life […]