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 […]

Deborah Ajia Elly Mead Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Oct 20, 2021

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 […]

Deborah Ajia

Posted on Aug 20, 2021

Emerging from Lockdown

Last month, we officially came out of 16 months of restrictions linked to Covid-19. Well, sort of. As with everything […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Aug 4, 2021

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