A Letter to Future Placemakers from Deborah Ajia: Experimentation in community engagement
For our new blog series ‘A Letter to Future Placemakers’, we’re showcasing letters that thoughtfully share learning points from your […]
Deborah Ajia
Posted on Oct 27, 2021
Bioregionalism in Placemaking: Looking at Your Local Spaces with a New Lens
Lockdown, with its trials and monotony, did have a positive impact on the way that we all regard and relate […]
Elly Mead
Posted on Sep 7, 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
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
A tapestry of participation: revisiting Arnstein’s ladder
Most of us who work in the field of placemaking are familiar with Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation, which […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 10, 2021
The Glass-House Resolutions for 2021
As we at The Glass-House roll up our sleeves and start a new year of work in 2021, we have […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jan 13, 2021
My time at The Glass-House
I joined the Glass-House in September 2018, fresh-ish from my MA after spending the intervening year freelancing at an architecture […]
Grace Crannis
Posted on Dec 15, 2020
Who’s paying for it? Funding public projects in 2020
Earlier this month, the news broke that Croydon Council had declared effective bankruptcy, citing the impact of Coronavirus and financial […]
Grace Crannis
Posted on Dec 7, 2020