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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]