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
Many communities have successfully transformed the places where they live, work, and play, yet the relationships between the various parties involved in placemaking often remain challenging and sometimes fail. We wonder how much this is influenced by the different types and levels of power we all wield. What is it about our collaborative efforts that leaves lasting impacts on the places we shape, and how might shifting the power dynamics help us do things better?
Join us for our May Chat, where we will explore the role and different types of power in placemaking, who currently holds power, and how we might better share it through collaborative placemaking.
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.