A Letter to Future Placemakers from Deborah Ajia: Experimentation in community engagement

For our new blog series ‘A Letter to Future Placemakers’, we’re showcasing letters that thoughtfully share learning points from your […]

Deborah Ajia

Posted on Oct 27, 2021

A Letter to Future Placemakers from Melissa Lacide

For our new blog series ‘A Letter to Future Placemakers’, we’re showcasing letters that thoughtfully share learning points from your […]

Melissa Lacide

Posted on Oct 18, 2021

Creating places that are venues for ongoing action and social impact with Stuart Sang

Reflections on: this year’s winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award, creating places that are venues for […]

Guest Author

Posted on Oct 5, 2021

The Well Walk Theatre (A short love letter to London)

Having spent almost three years in Manchester, I started working at The Glass-House from my living room on the edge […]

Elly Mead

Posted on Aug 4, 2021

INSPIRED Blog Series: Citizens Committee for New York City

Not long ago, my mother handed me a book and some promotional material designed by an old family friend, British […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Mar 22, 2021

Redefining our collaborative design language at Beyond Buzzwords

Community-led and community-engaged design are increasingly part of the development and regeneration narrative, but what do these terms actually mean? […]

Myra Stuart

Posted on Oct 19, 2018

Layers of Community: Design Training Sheffield 2018

By Myra Stuart Examples of how local communities are the experts abounded at our latest Design Training workshop, while a […]

Myra Stuart

Posted on Sep 20, 2018

Learning about and exploring the potential of design – EDP Design Training in Manchester

On 20th and 21st June, our Empowering Design Practices project ran a two-day Design Training course (based on Buildings by Design, […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Aug 3, 2017

Watch or listen back to ‘Architecture, Faith and Community’ talk featuring our Chief Executive

Glass-House Chief Executive Sophia de Sousa was a speaker at the RSA’s Architecture, Faith and Community event on 28th February, […]

Louise Dredge

Posted on Mar 13, 2017

Helping groups to rediscover their buildings through design training

Sometimes, when a community-based organisation is looking after a building, the challenges of the everyday can be overwhelming. This is […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Oct 13, 2016