The Glass-House wants to share what we learn, and to help and inspire others to take forward their own projects and actions.
We have produced a number of practical resources as well as films and publications about our work.
Practical Resources
Enabling Community-Based Leadership in Design: Sustainable Development of Historic Faith Buildings – Online Course
Digital Media and Community-Led Design: Creative Tips for your Project
Preparing to Work with Architects: a Beginner’s Guide for Community Clients
Using Digital Media in Your Community Led Design Project
Designing Places with People: Tips for Your Community Engagement Strategy
Designing Places With People: Making Community Engagement Count
Designing Places With People: Testing Ideas for Your Community Building
Explore Design: Community Buildings
Making Buildings Work for Your Community: Design, Refurbishment & Retrofit
Learning From the Use of Digital Media in Community-Led Design Projects
Creative Citizens Variety Pack: Inspiring Ideas for Digital Projects
Tidworth Mums: A Case for Soft Play
Seeing Things Differently Activity Pack
Helping Community Groups to Improve Public Space
Laying the Foundations
It’s Our Space
What Would You Do With This Space?
Events & Knowledge Exchange
Co-designing Design Codes: How could meaningful community engagement work? – Event Report
ExploreStation Exhibition Guide
Glass-House Chats: Bringing Sectors Together (January – July 2021)
Co-designing Sustainable Places: Voices of The Glass-House 2020/21 Event Series
Union Chapel Heritage Workshop: A summary publication about our hybrid workshop design and delivery
Cross-pollination Stories: a snapshot from Blackpool
Reconfiguring Place: Voices of The Glass-House 2019/20 Event Series
WE design: Voices of The Glass-House Event Series 2018/19
Beyond Buzzwords: The Language of Collaborative Design
To a More Ambitious Place: Voices of The Glass-House Debate Series 2014/15
Place Potential: Voices from The Glass-House Debate Series 2013/14
Putting People in Their Place: Reflections from The Glass-House Debate Series 2012/13
Making Space for Community-Led Housing in Urban Areas
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Celebrating the Commitment of Community Groups Regenerating Their Local Area
Action Research & Media
Incubating Civic Leadership Films – case study films
Incubating Civic Leadership Film
Fostering creative citizens through co-design and public makerspaces summary publication
Design by Consensus: Makerspaces Facilitation Guide
Empowering Design Practices Live Event & Exhibition Catalogue
Spaces for Connection: Fostering Creative Citizens Through Makerspaces in China
Empowering Design Practices Live
Design Training: Empowering Communities to Unlock Place Potential
Lessons From Minamisanriku: Stories of Resilience and Rebuilding
Prototyping Utopias
Scaling up Co-Design Research and Practice
Scaling up Co-Design: A Journey of Collaboration in Research Practice and Communities
Creativity, Media and Place
Unearth Hidden Assets Through Community Co-Design and Co-Production
Starting from Values: Evaluating Intangible Legacies of Connected Community Projects
Why Places Matter
Crap Places Kill People: How Local Involvement in Placemaking Aids Health and Wellbeing
