Glass-House Chats are monthly hour-long online spaces for conversation and connection, to ask questions and explore ideas, approaches and methods, share learning and meet others. The sessions are chaired by The Glass-House team, who will briefly introduce the theme and then open the floor for an informal and open discussion among participants.
To ensure space for open meaningful discussion, places are limited to a small group, with the Chatham House Rule applied. Key discussion points will be collated, anonymised and shared after each session.
Glass-House Chats are free events, but places are limited, so please register only if you plan to attend.
About this Session
Young people are often overlooked when it comes to placemaking, often labelled as hard to reach or stereotyped as the perpetrators of anti-social behaviour in our towns and cities. But young people know a thing or two about how places tick. What if we empowered them to be active placemakers? How might they influence how we shape our places for all generations?
In this chat we will explore what would happen if young people were enablers of place. How can we create space for them as active citizens and place leaders today, rather than just consultees and those who will inherit in the future what we create for them today?
About the Series
In this series of Glass-House Chats, we are revisiting the questions we asked a decade ago in our Glass-House Debate series Place Potential (2013/14) and To a More Ambitious Place (2014/15). All are questions that we feel are still hugely relevant today and that should be informing systemic change to how we shape where we live, work and play. We also hope that, 10 years on, bringing them to the Glass-House Chats space might help us gather some inspiring examples of how things are changing for the better.
If you would like to revisit our Debate Series for inspiration and hear what participants 10 years ago had to say, then please click on the links below.