Place: the sum of parts? Think piece #2

By Jez Hall A little story about Levenshulme’s secret lake (this piece leads on from Jez Hall’s first think piece […]

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Posted on Nov 3, 2015

Place: the sum of parts? Think piece #1

By Jez Hall Place for a community to live The upcoming Glass-House Manchester debate on ‘Place, a sum of parts?’ […]

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Posted on Nov 2, 2015

Place: designed for sharing? A round-up of our recent Edinburgh debate

Last Wednesday in Edinburgh, we held the first debate in our 2015/16 Series, A Place for Everyone?, which explores the […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Oct 28, 2015

Collaboration for Innovation in Place – a breakfast workshop

The Glass-House believes that collaboration in placemaking can significantly improve the quality of places and how people interact with them. […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Oct 7, 2015

Place: designed for sharing? Think piece #1

By Becca Thomas A place for everyone: socially engaged design and spaces “The true purpose of architecture is to help […]

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Posted on Oct 7, 2015

New chair of The Glass-House Board of Trustees

Earlier this year, Prue Chiles, Professor of Architectural Research at Newcastle University, was appointed to our Board of Trustees as […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Oct 7, 2015

Hitchhiking meets social design

“Every door you open you did think,well I wonder what I’m going to encounter this time…” The practice of hitchhiking […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Sep 2, 2015

Taking a place-based view in supporting neighbourhoods

This blog post was originally published by the National Federation of ALMOs as part of their annual conference held in […]

Maja Luna Jorgensen

Posted on Aug 26, 2015

Reflections from the Fifth Desk

By Martha Isaacs Today is my last day of work with The Glass-House Community Led Design. During my time with […]

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Posted on Aug 5, 2015

To a More Ambitious Place: looking back to look forward

As we warm up for this year’s Glass-House Debate Series, let’s take a final look at where we ended the […]

Lucia das Neves

Posted on Aug 3, 2015