Glass-House Chats Archives

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