Place Equity: Enriching our Future Shared Spaces
On October 13, we hosted our Place Equity: Making great public spaces a reality for everyone, our first hybrid collaborative […]
Sustainability: Greening London
As a keen gardener and life-long Londoner, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see areas of London turning super green over […]
Emerging from Lockdown
Last month, we officially came out of 16 months of restrictions linked to Covid-19. Well, sort of. As with everything […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]