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
A Brief Introduction to Co-design
Co-design Method Films
Engaging Communities in Design Decision Making
Cross-pollination Resource
Enabling Community-Based Leadership in Design (online course)
Design by Consensus: Makerspaces Facilitation Guide
Explore Design: Community Buildings
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
Preparing to Work with Architects: a Beginner’s Guide for Community Clients
Digital Media and Community-Led Design: Creative Tips for your Project
Using Digital Media in Your Community Led Design Project
Learning From the Use of Digital Media in Community-Led Design Projects
Tidworth Mums: A Case for Soft Play
Making Buildings Work for Your Community: Design, Refurbishment & Retrofit
Creative Citizens Variety Pack: Inspiring Ideas for Digital Projects
Seeing Things Differently Activity Pack
Laying the Foundations
Helping Community Groups to Improve Public Space
It’s Our Space
What Would You Do With This Space?
Events & Knowledge Exchange
Sharing Place: Reflections on the 2024/25 WEdesign Event Series
Sharing Place: Think Piece Publication (WEdesign 2024/25)
Glass-House Chats: Bringing Sectors Together 2023/24 (Series 4)
People Place Planet: Reflections on the 2023/24 WEdesign Event Series
People, Place, Planet: Think Piece Publication (WEdesign 2023/24)
Glass-House Chats: Bringing Sectors Together 2022/23 (Series 3)
Young People Making Places Webinar: The Glass-House X Cement Fields Collaboration
Relearning Place: Reflections on the 2022/23 WEdesign Event Series
ExploreStation: The Glass-House Journey
The State of Play Workshop: Empowering Children in Design through Gaming
Local Places, Global Issues: Voices of The Glass-House 2021/22 Event Series
Glass-House Chats: Bringing Sectors Together 2021/22 (Series 2)
ExploreStation Final Report
ExploreStation Guide May 2022
Co-designing Design Codes: How could meaningful community engagement work? – Event Report
ExploreStation Exhibition Guide
Glass-House Chats: Bringing Sectors Together 2020/21 (Series 1)
Co-designing Sustainable Places: Voices of The Glass-House 2020/21 Event Series
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
Cross-pollination: Growing cross-sector design collaboration in placemaking research project films
Incubating Civic Leadership Films – case study films
Incubating Civic Leadership Film
Fostering creative citizens through co-design and public makerspaces summary publication
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
Secrets of Buildings, FX Magazine
Place-based Projects
Down Lane Park: Kick-starting a Community Design Group – Report February 2022
The Junction: Placemaking and Wayfinding – Report Autumn 2021
Design Training with St Raphael’s and Ledbury Estates: Capture and Summary Report
Union Chapel Sunday School Stories Interpretation Piece Workshop: A summary report capturing the process and learnings from our workshop
