A citizen’s perspective on enabling public power
Over the last year and a half of lockdown, with varying restrictions and changes to how we work and travel, […]
Deborah Ajia
Posted on Jul 29, 2021
Urban Activation in Ilford Town Centre
Sometimes, our action research creates wonderful spaces for experimentation, and our Incubating Civic Leadership* project has done just that, sowing […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jul 21, 2021
UCL Student Research: “Best practice recommendations for participatory planning post-Covid-19”
As a group of planning students from UCL, we worked alongside The Glass-House in our module, Participatory Urban Planning, to consider how […]
Guest Author
Posted on Jul 14, 2021
Enabling Community Urban Design Champions
On 24 June, The Glass-House ran a workshop on the principles and vocabulary of urban design for the London Forum […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jul 7, 2021
Gaming with The Willow on Broadwaters: using play and technology to talk about design
On Tuesday 29 June, The Glass-House was invited to deliver our first in-person workshop this year to a group of […]
Elly Mead
Posted on Jul 5, 2021
Play streets for covid recovery: Placing children and playing streets at the heart of recovery
In March, I attended Playing Out’s event – Play Streets for Covid Recovery. The insightful event focused on how we […]
Deborah Ajia
Posted on Jun 18, 2021
Co-designing shared community space: Play as a Design Tool with Dr Kate Langham
Community engagement in the urban design process requires collaborative approaches that can build effective dialogue to develop a shared understanding of places, […]
Guest Author
Posted on May 18, 2021
Sheffield School of Architecture Workshop: Exploring digital tools for creative engagement
By Elly Mead and Deborah Ajia The Glass-House was recently invited by the Sheffield School of Architecture (SSoA) to deliver […]
Elly Mead
Deborah Ajia
Posted on May 12, 2021
A tapestry of participation: revisiting Arnstein’s ladder
Most of us who work in the field of placemaking are familiar with Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation, which […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 10, 2021
Co-Design in The Time of Covid: The digital shift of participation and placemaking
On Thursday 25 March, we hosted Co-Design in The Time of Covid, our final event in our We Design 20/2021 […]
Deborah Ajia
Posted on Mar 31, 2021