New Year’s resolutions for housing

In recent weeks, various stories and statistics in the press have evidenced that tackling our housing crisis is not as […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Jan 5, 2018

The Glass-House response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy

Much has been said and written about the tragedy at Grenfell Tower in the last few days. As a nation […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Jun 19, 2017

Triggering conversations about place: workshop at Paragon

Place is all around us. We interact with it both consciously and not. Our senses and emotions fire messages to […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on May 18, 2016

Dreaming about Bow’s future by ‘Prototyping Utopias’

Community invited to dream about Bow’s future What would your ideal Bow look like? The Glass-House, the Open University and […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Apr 14, 2016

Place: who belongs here? Think piece #3

Designing material infrastructures to facilitate common belonging By Toby Austin Locke and Lawrence Dodd What does it mean to belong, […]

Guest Author

Posted on Mar 2, 2016

People, place and policy: our evidence to the House of Lords

On 11 November, I gave oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy for the Built […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Dec 8, 2015

Hitchhiking meets social design

“Every door you open you did think,well I wonder what I’m going to encounter this time…” The practice of hitchhiking […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Sep 2, 2015

Taking a place-based view in supporting neighbourhoods

This blog post was originally published by the National Federation of ALMOs as part of their annual conference held in […]

Maja Luna Jorgensen

Posted on Aug 26, 2015

Neighbourhoods by Design: Designing change

Neighbourhoods by Design, one of our longest-running design training courses, has undergone a re-vamp of late. The Design Training course […]

Maja Luna Jorgensen

Posted on May 10, 2012

Exploring the Neighbourhoods of Stroud and Bristol

Last Thursday we led a group of local community members and support workers on a Neighbourhoods Study Tour around Stroud […]

Hannah Gibbs

Posted on Nov 28, 2011