Archives: Events
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Glass-House Chat: Do the right people have power in place?
Date: 15 May 2025More info Join us in May when we will explore the role and different types of power in placemaking, who currently holds power, and how we might better share it through collaborative placemaking. Many communities have successfully transformed the places where they live, work, and play, yet the relationships between the various…
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Glass-House Chat: Do we accept the status quo in place?
Date: 17 July 2025More info It is often easier to accept things as they are and continue with how things have always been, instead of challenging the status quo and pushing for change and ambitious reform. If we want to make a difference to a place and create real change within placemaking we need to…
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Social value in the built environment
Date: 3 June 2025More info A thorough full-day course exploring how the built environment industry can understand, measure, and communicate its social value. It will explore the different frameworks and tools that are available, including UKGBC’s Framework for Defining Social Value. The course will cover all of the steps needed for a social value assessment, including…
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Glass House Chat: Does practice make perfect in place?
Date: 17 April 2025More info If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Or so the adage goes. Perhaps if we took more time to reflect and learn from our collective experience, we could make consistent and steady improvement to how we do things. Do we need to take a more reflective, critical eye…
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Glass House Chat: Sharing place the debate
Date: 5 February 2025More info Our planet is becoming increasingly crowded, with growing populations causing people, animals, and plant life to compete for space and resources. Historical factors and socio-economic disparities continue to affect access to and ownership of land. Sharing Place: The Debate will bring people together to propose more equitable ways of sharing our…
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Glass-House Chats: Can we improve health through placemaking?
Date: 16 January 2025More info Exploring the intersection of health and placemaking has huge potential for creating healthier and more equitable communities. By fostering collaboration between communities, built environment professionals and the health & social care sector, can we better shape spaces that promote well-being and address health inequalities? In our January Chat we will…
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The City of London: Night and the City walk
Date: 30 December 2024More info After dark, the buildings of the City of London reveal themselves. When illuminated from inside and outside, there is a vibrancy and warmth not seen in daylight. Join architect Ross Logie for this special walk that not only looks at projects by some of the world’s leading architects but also…
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St Bride Foundation: The journey from old world to new
Date: 20 February 2025More info Exploring language, context, clichés and cultures. DutchScot will be talking about a font designed for the kids of Liverpool, by the kids of Liverpool; a new Danish textile brand inspired by typewriter art; a rebrand for a Museum in Brussels; the Japanese craft of gyotaku fish printing, amongst other projects…
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St Bride Foundation: Pinch, swipe, tap
Start date: 6 December 2024End date: 16 January 2025More info ‘Pinch, swipe, tap’ is a talk by Hanna Kops, Head of Experience at TfL Digital. Hanna leads the award-winning digital experience team behind TfL Go, Transport for London’s innovative new travel app. TfL Go has been shortlisted for a D&AD Award, won two Drum Awards,…
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RIN Outdoor Adventure Navigation Group: Outdoor waylosing and navigation in Norway
Date: 22 January 2025More info This talk will be about wayfinding, waylosing and human navigation behaviours in the outdoors in Norway. Ole Wattne will share his doctoral research about navigation preferences and behaviours and specifically how people recover from being temporarily lost. His personal stories of wayfinding in Norway will highlight the importance of the…