
TAP Symposium: Transform / Activate / SHAPE
During the summer of 2022, we had the pleasure of partnering with the TAP (Transforming and Activating Places) programme, through […]

Cross-pollination: Design day in Merthyr
This blog was first published on our project website for Cross-pollination: Growing cross-sector design collaboration in placemaking, a collaborative action […]

People Powered Places: Empowering community champions as experts
May 2022 People Powered Places is Metropolitan Workshop‘s second annual practice-based research project. It aims to explore innovative methods of […]

Cross-pollinating Glasgow
On 26 April, we gathered together a group of people in the East End of Glasgow, for Share, Connect, Create Glasgow, to talk about how they might work together to make interesting things happen in that neighbourhood and in the city as a whole.

Designing a More Inclusive Bloomsbury: participatory planning project with The Glass-House and UCL students
This student project was developed in collaboration between The UCL Bartlett School of Planning and The Glass-House Community Led Design, working with Dr Yasminah Beebeejaun and Ju Eun Kim.

Reimagining Moorfoot: Steel drums on the steel route
By Grace Crannis For Reimagining Moorfoot: co-design, connections and city spaces, the second event in our Glass-House WE design 18/19 […]

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? […]

Place: who belongs here? A round-up of our 2016 London Debate
In the final debate of our Series A Place for Everyone?, we set out to explore the theme of belonging […]

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 […]

Secrets of Buildings – The Glass-House featured in FX Magazine
In this month’s FX Magazine, writer Veronica Simpson reviews “a few pioneering consultancies [who] have helped to ensure more people-focused […]