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  • Royal College of Art exhibition: MA Architecture ‘Work in progress’

    Royal College of Art exhibition: MA Architecture ‘Work in progress’

    Start date: 22 January 2025End date: 25 January 2025More info Students from MA Architecture present a selection of work in progress. Meet the architects and designers of the future as their newest work comes together, and take a peek behind the doors of the world’s #1 university for art and design. [This is a free-of-charge,…

  • Conscious Cities Festival 2025: Regrounding

    Conscious Cities Festival 2025: Regrounding

    Start date: 21 March 2025End date: 25 March 2025More info Welcome to the Conscious Cities Festival, where designers, researchers, technologists, decision makers and local communities converge to explore the intricate relationship between the built environment and human flourishing.  The 2025 festival will unveil and explore the concept of “Regrounding” – the deliberate practice of reconnecting…

  • Glass-House Chat: Do the right people have power in place?

    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…

  • Glass-House Chat: Do we accept the status quo in place?

    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…

  • Social value in the built environment

    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…

  • Glass House Chat: Does practice make perfect in place?

    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…

  • Glass House Chat: Sharing place the debate

    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…

  • Glass-House Chats: Can we improve health through placemaking?

    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…

  • The City of London: Night and the City walk

    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…

  • St Bride Foundation: The journey from old world to new

    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…