£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 […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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 […]
Guest Author
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
Love and placemaking..
Intrinsic to everything we do at The Glass-House is the idea that people are at the heart of places, and […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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 […]
Lucia das Neves
Posted on Feb 6, 2013
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 […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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 […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
“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 […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
New life in Fountainbridge
Earlier in November we supported a fantastic group who have come together to create a vision to breathe new life […]
Maja Luna Jorgensen
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
What value do local people bring to placemaking?
The Glass-House Debate Series held annually, encourages all those with an interest in great placemaking and community led initiatives to […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Nov 22, 2012
Enabler Voices: ‘What value do local people bring to placemaking?’
By Richard Crutchley, Glass-House Enabler Google ‘Andover Estate’ and you’ll find a relentless list of negative outpourings about this sprawling […]
Guest Author
Posted on Nov 15, 2012