Gateshead community building is our first Hosted Study Tour
Two weeks ago, on Friday 10 May we visited sustainable building project The Davidson Building, home of Gateshead Citizens Advice […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on May 24, 2013
Why Places Matter – new booklet for local councils and communities
We’re delighted to share with you a new booklet we have contributed to – Why Places Matter – which makes the case […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on May 9, 2013
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 […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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 […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
£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