Glass-House Chats: Is our View of Places too Short-sighted?
In this month’s Chat, Is Our View of Places Too Shortsighted?, we explored the tensions between long-term vision and short-term […]
Louise Dennison
Posted on Jun 23, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Do the right people have power in place?
In our May Chat, we explored the question; Do the right people have power in place? The aim was to […]
Louise Dennison
Posted on May 21, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Does Practice Make Perfect in Place?
Our April Chat asked, Does practice make perfect in place? We were keen to look back over the past decade […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Apr 22, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Sharing Place
This month’s Chat was a special edition of our WEdesign 2024/25 series, Sharing Place. Different from our other WEdesign events, […]
Louise Dennison
Posted on Mar 17, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Can We Improve Health Through Placemaking?
This month’s Chat, Can we improve health through placemaking? focused on how the design of our places can help shape […]
Louise Dennison
Posted on Jan 21, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Can housing be a catalyst for great places?
Too often, young people’s voices are excluded from conversations about placemaking, often labelled as hard to reach or stereotyped as […]
Louise Dennison
Posted on Dec 17, 2024
Glass-House Chats: Should we build less and reuse more in placemaking?
In this month’s chat we explored the delicate balance between reuse, refurbishment and new build.
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Nov 18, 2024
Glass-House Chats: Can housing be a catalyst for great places?
In the first of our new series, this chat explored the role of housing in shaping and supporting communities.
Louise Dennison
Posted on Oct 21, 2024
Glass-House Chats: The Right to Shape Places
For our last chat of the series, the topic of discussion was The Right to Shape Places. Our discussion explored the challenges different groups of people face, feeling they can or cannot shape the city around them, from policy to practise to placemaking.
Jake Stephenson-Bartley
Posted on Jul 3, 2024
Glass-House Chats: Wellbeing and Placemaking
This month’s Chat, focused on Wellbeing and Placemaking and explored the impact that designing for wellbeing can have on citizens and asked how wellbeing can be a more integral part of placemaking.
Louise Dennison
Posted on Jun 4, 2024