Co-design as an Ecological Champion

What is Co-design? From my experience working at The Glass-House, I understand co-design as a method and tool whereby groups […]

Jake Stephenson-Bartley

Posted on Nov 10, 2023

‘It’s Berlin you can touch’

by Olivia Hanson Olivia taught secondary school English and ran a street kitchen in Hackney until 2021, when she started […]

Guest Author

Posted on Nov 6, 2023

Co-designing Place Quality and Place Equity

Back in 2007, The Glass-House produced a series of postcards aimed at stimulating discussion around what we saw as inequities […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Sep 26, 2023

Relearning Place: The Debate

The WEdesign programme for 2022/23 started last week, with our inaugural event Relearning Place: The Debate, which took place online. […]

Louise Dennison

Posted on Feb 13, 2023

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 […]

Jake Stephenson-Bartley

Posted on Sep 21, 2022

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 […]

Guest Author

Posted on Jul 18, 2022

Working with an Ethic of Care

Opinion piece Having worked at The Glass-House for a while now and having built my confidence and familiarity with The […]

Jake Stephenson-Bartley

Posted on Jun 21, 2022

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.

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on May 10, 2022

Sustainable high streets: reimagining the future of our towns and cities

On Wednesday 30 March, we delivered our final event in this year’s WEdesign series ‘Local Places, Global Issues’ in partnership […]

Elly Mead

Posted on Apr 5, 2022

Cultural Influences: Bringing diverse voices into forgotten spaces

There is a growing interest in more inclusive design, and with this a recognition that who we invite into the […]

Sophia de Sousa

Posted on Mar 16, 2022