Making Communities Stronger Through Collaboration and Sharing

By Sophia de Sousa For some time, The Glass-House has been interested in the concept of the collaborative economy and […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Mar 30, 2020

A Summer at The Glass-House

By Emma Newman Before coming to intern this summer at The Glass-House, I only had vague ideas about community engagement […]

Guest Author

Posted on Jul 8, 2019

Co-designing a co-design workshop

The reinvention of a Glass-House stalwart: Design by Consensus By Grace Crannis, Sophia de Sousa and Myra Stuart   “Co-designing […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Jul 4, 2019

Learning from makerspaces

By Grace Crannis As part of the Fostering Creative Citizens through co-design and public makerspaces* research project, The Glass-House team along […]

Grace Crannis

Posted on Jun 28, 2019

Gaming as a design engagement tool

By Grace Crannis As part of our series of Design Studio workshops in our Empowering Design Practices research project, The […]

Grace Crannis

Posted on Dec 12, 2018

Reimagining Moorfoot: Steel drums on the steel route

By Grace Crannis For Reimagining Moorfoot: co-design, connections and city spaces, the second event in our Glass-House WE design 18/19 […]

Grace Crannis

Posted on Nov 30, 2018

Redefining our collaborative design language at Beyond Buzzwords

Community-led and community-engaged design are increasingly part of the development and regeneration narrative, but what do these terms actually mean? […]

Myra Stuart

Posted on Oct 19, 2018

How do we progress participation in architecture? Beyond Participation #2

Introducing the Irish Architecture Foundation’s second international conference on participation (Beyond Participation #2), programme curator Tara Kennedy declared that “participation […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on May 29, 2018

The right to great design: taking (community-led) action

By Katherine Horsham Conversation at the recent Glass-House event in London seemed to quickly conclude we do have the right […]

Guest Author

Posted on Mar 16, 2018

Learning about and exploring the potential of design – EDP Design Training in Manchester

On 20th and 21st June, our Empowering Design Practices project ran a two-day Design Training course (based on Buildings by Design, […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Aug 3, 2017