Some Resolutions for 2026
I may be showing my age, but it’s astonishing to me that we are now in 2026. The world and […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jan 6, 2026
Glass-House Chats: Designing for Transient Communities
Our December Chat was Designing for Transient Communities co-hosted with Elly Mead of Hawkins\Brown. In it, we explored the challenge […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Dec 15, 2025
Multigenerational Places: Sheffield Event Blog
Our third event in the 2025/26 WEdesign series, Multigenerational Places, was on 4 December at the Israac Centre in Sheffield. […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Dec 8, 2025
Multigenerational Places: Practice Event Blog
On 19 October, we held the second in-person event in our 2025/26 WEdesign series, Multigenerational Places at Arup’s Charlotte Street […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Nov 24, 2025
A Letter to Future Placemakers from Sohana Khan
By Sohana Khan I was raised in a small town in Tangail, Bangladesh, where I always felt curiosity in my […]
Guest Author
Posted on Jul 29, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Do we accept the status quo in place?
Do we accept the status quo in place? was the last in the fifth series of Glass-House Chats. In it, […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jul 19, 2025
INSPIRED: Place-based Identity Making in Ivry-sur-Seine
by Louis Cook A Personal Starting Point On a recent trip to France, I stayed near an otherwise unassuming town […]
Guest Author
Posted on Jul 15, 2025
Glass-House Chats: Is our View of Places too Short-sighted?
In this month’s Chat, Is Our View of Places Too Short-sighted?, we explored the tensions between long-term vision and short-term […]
Louise Dennison
Posted on Jun 23, 2025
Learning from Community Anchor Organisations
Working with the Open University, we recently carried out a series of conversations with a group of place-based partners representing […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jun 10, 2025
Exploring the Challenge of Sharing Learning & Resources
On 8 May we co-hosted an event with The Open University and Historic England for national bodies working with communities […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 21, 2025