Glass-House Chats Reflections: Empathising with Design
Following our recent Glass-House Chat, Designing with Empathy, our co-host Melissa Lacide shares a provocation inspired by the conversation. What […]
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Posted on Mar 25, 2026
Glass-House Chats: Designing with Empathy
Our March Chat, Designing with Empathy, welcomed longstanding collaborator Melissa Lacide as co-host. As a champion of empathy within the […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Mar 18, 2026
Glass-House Chats: Designing in Stories
Our February Chat, Designing in Stories was co-hosted with Cristina Carrasco, Participation Manager for the Sunday School Stories Project at […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Feb 16, 2026
Glass-House Chats: Designing Sustainable Heritage
The first of our sixth series of Glass-House Chats, co-hosted with Stephen Smith of Wright & Wright Architects, explored Designing […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Sep 23, 2025
Have Your Say on People, Place & Design
At The Glass-House, we see one of our key roles as a connector and want to share voices that may […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jul 24, 2024
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
Guest post: The right to great design (Sheffield)
By Leo Care Democratising Design With its socialist political roots, it is perhaps no surprise that a conversation about great […]
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Posted on Oct 10, 2017
Guest post: The right to great design (Edinburgh)
By Eric Dawson Why don’t we have quality places? What is great design? What makes your heart sink or sing? […]
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Posted on Jul 27, 2017
Get inspired by Alder Hey in the Park
I recently visited Alder Hey in the Park, a new children’s hospital in Liverpool, and was hugely impressed by their […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 11, 2017
Place: a shared responsibility? Nottingham responds..
For our first ever debate in Nottingham, held on Wednesday 3 February, we discussed the question: ‘Place: a shared responsibility?’. […]
Louise Dredge
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Posted on Feb 4, 2016