Lessons from Minamisanriku: What does place mean to us?
Negotiating different personal and community associations with a building or place Minamisanriku is in many ways an idyllic setting, a […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 7, 2015
Lessons from Minamisanriku: Introduction
When I asked a survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Minamisanriku, Japan in June 2011 what we could […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 6, 2015
Do we accept the status quo in place? A round-up of our London debate
“We are both too ambitious and not ambitious enough” opened our first speaker, Alastair Donald on Wednesday at our fourth […]
Lucia das Neves
Posted on Mar 20, 2015
Do the right people have power in place? A round-up of our Sheffield Debate
On Wednesday 19th November, we were honoured to be hosted as the inaugural event in one of Sheffield’s newest cultural […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Nov 20, 2014
To a More Ambitious Place: Do the right people have power in place? Think piece #1
By Robert Johnson Do the right people have power in place? Who has the power to transform place? As a […]
Guest Author
Posted on Nov 3, 2014
Building community through theatre making at the New Vic Theatre
How would you start to rebuild your community when almost everything and everyone has been lost? On 4 June, three […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Jun 19, 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
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
“People have a lot of assets that they don’t realise they have”
“People have a lot of assets that they don’t realise they have.” – Sophia de Sousa Last week we took […]
Melissa Lacide
Posted on Dec 3, 2012