A Letter to Future Placemakers “…before you start planning, ask yourself these questions first.”
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 23, 2023
Celebrating a Decade of Strategic Partnership with The Open University
Last month, I had the immense pleasure of watching my long-time collaborator and now dear friend, Professor Theodore Zamenopoulous, give […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 10, 2023
Co-designing shared community space: Play as a Design Tool with Dr Kate Langham
Community engagement in the urban design process requires collaborative approaches that can build effective dialogue to develop a shared understanding of places, […]
Guest Author
Posted on May 18, 2021
RSA Student Design Awards Workshop: exploring participatory design as part of the design process
Introduction to the event In collaboration with RSA, The Glass-House ran an interactive workshop to introduce students to elements of […]
Deborah Ajia
Posted on Dec 10, 2020
EDP Live: celebrating community-led design in historic places of worship
By Sophia de Sousa and Katerina Alexiou On 12 February, 2020, The Empowering Design Practices research team gathered with partners […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Mar 10, 2020
Learning from makerspaces
By Grace Crannis As part of the Fostering Creative Citizens through co-design and public makerspaces* research project, The Glass-House team along […]
Grace Crannis
Posted on Jun 28, 2019
The Glass-House is featured in a new book on the value of collaborative research
The Glass-House is delighted to have contributed to a new book published by Policy Press and edited by academics Keri […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Aug 2, 2017
We must be ambitious and dare to dream about the ideal: Dreaming Utopias in Bow
When people are asked to consider the future of their place, most often it is through a consultation exercise to […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on May 25, 2016
Dreaming about Bow’s future by ‘Prototyping Utopias’
Community invited to dream about Bow’s future What would your ideal Bow look like? The Glass-House, the Open University and […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Apr 14, 2016
Hitchhiking meets social design
“Every door you open you did think,well I wonder what I’m going to encounter this time…” The practice of hitchhiking […]
Louise Dredge
Posted on Sep 2, 2015