PlaceLabs Podcast

PlaceLabs Collective•www.placelabs.co.uk

PlaceLabs aim to explore Place from a wide variety of angles and to facilitate cross-pollination within the built environment industry. In the PlaceLabs Podcast, which accompanies our quarterly events, we discuss the challenges facing future cities. Interviewing thought-provoking speakers, we seek to offer inspiration and solutions to professionals as well as those interested in urbanism.

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PlaceLabs: Origins ("A Band of Outsiders")

In this episode, rather than looking at a theme in placemaking as we normally do, we look at PlaceLabs itself. What was the idea behind it? What drives us, what do we hope to achieve? Introducing ourselves – the people behind PlaceLabs – we also reflect on previous events and episodes. Hopefully this will inspire you to join the conversation. Please do! The PlaceLabs Collective is made up of Sam Oxley, Dan Moscrop, Julien Clin and today's three guests: Payal Wadhwa, Lisa Jones and Rosanna Vitiel...

Feb 25, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Hyper Local EXTRA - With Neill Gaddes

In this extra session, we continue to explore the theme of ‘Hyperlocal’. PlaceLabs’s own Rosanna Vitiello is talking to Neill Gaddes about how the local is represented in Shenzhen, China, and in Ao-tearoa as New Zealand is called in Maori. Neill is originally from New Zealand but is now based in Shenzhen, where he co-founded SANS. SANS is a place-led agency that develops strategies for changing cities. In today’s episode, he also discusses the link between cultural signifiers and community, as w...

Dec 10, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Hyper Local - EXTRA - With Prof Peter Rees

In this, our first EXTRA session, we continue to explore the theme of “Hyperlocal” with Prof Peter Rees. Peter was the Chief Planning Officer for the City of London for nearly 30 years. During his tenure, he oversaw the transformation of the Square Mile -- both in its physical appearance, with the Eastern Cluster of skyscrapers redefining the skyline, and in its appeal to attract hard-working and hard-playing talent. Peter has long been an advocate of local places and, now a Professor of Places ...

Nov 23, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Hyper Local

We have been living in global villages for a while now. 2020 has made this more apparent than ever before: circumstances have forced us into -- or perhaps accelerated a trend towards -- drastically local thinking and living. But what does this new hyperlocalism mean for communities? How do we build -- or should that be: go back to building -- communities around local places? And, indeed, in a world that is as much virtual as it is physical, what does hyperlocal even mean? Guests: Nicola Read is ...

Nov 12, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Assumptions

In this episode, we’re asking how different our cities and towns would look if we challenged our assumptions. Do we need to move towards more “mindful assuming”? Towards an awareness for when and what we are assuming. Towards an understanding for what’s a reasonable assumption, and what isn’t? What can we learn from other industries who ask, test and prototype before they build? Or is there, perhaps, even a possibility to embrace uncertainty – to build adaptability into our urban environment? Ou...

Oct 12, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Pause

Using lockdown as a Pause, as a moment of introspection to look at where we came from (even before the pandemic). But, especially, as a moment to think about where we would like to go.The futurist Peter Ellyard says, “the future is not a probably place we are being taken to, but a preferred place we are creating.” In this episode, we dream up future homes, commerce and public places. Guests: Ivana Stanisic – an Associate and architect at JTP Architects whose work ranges from master-planning resi...

May 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Disaster?

In this, our first episode, we discuss the theme of “Disaster?” — amidst wildfires and floods, the coronavirus outbreak and forced migration, how does Disaster affect our places in the present and the future? Is “disaster” even the right word for our times? Our guests are Gemma Jones, Noel Moka and Paddy Loughman.

Mar 11, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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