Can the design of a place make people happier or healthier? Can architecture itself make a positive social impact, and can that value be quantified on a spreadsheet? We brought together a range of professionals for live podcast recording to discuss the impact, metrics and importance of social value. This podcast is supported by Hawkins\Brown, and features Matt Woolgar, Hadley Property Group; Hazel York, Hawkins Brown; Natascha McIntyre Hall, Portsmouth City Council; Blossom Young, Poplar HARCA; ...
Nov 15, 2021•1 hr 31 min
If you really want to tackle representation in your organisation, don't invite the marginalised to volunteer on a working group that will inevitably go nowhere. That's just one of the tips Dr Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City, shares in this talk from Festival of Place: Gender Equal Cities in a podcast episode sponsored by IE School of Architecture and Design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 02, 2021•52 min
Developers discuss post-Covid public space and town centre design in the context of the climate emergency. Has the pandemic derailed or accelerated progress in making our cities more climate resilient? How do we design public spaces that support social connection and democracy while tackling critical urban issues such as flooding, drought, pollution and overheating? This live podcast recording is sponsored by Vestre and features Chris Brown, Igloo; Olaide Oboh, First Base; Jonathan Wilson, Citu;...
Jul 25, 2021•43 min
Those who perpetuate hate crimes attack people for being different, so can we design public spaces that make marginalised groups safer by making them less visible? Professor Pippa Catterall discusses the problem of violent attacks for the LGBTQ+ community and explains why a large echoey open public square can be a deeply uncomfortable space where individuals are easily targeted. What makes us stand out in public space, who does the looking, and what design features could make our cities more tol...
Jun 23, 2021•47 min
As a maverick serial entrepreneur behind tech and innovation clusters including Canary Wharf's Level39 and the Olympic Park's Plexal, Claire Cockerton knows what kind of office environment helps start-ups thrive and grow. But in the post-Covid environment, she believes our approach to office space is changing - and to attract and support female founders, the attitude on site in tech clusters must change too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 02, 2021•43 min
With 80% of youth spaces occupied by boys, how can we create parks, play equipment and public spaces where young women and girls feel safe and that they belong? We talk to Make Space for Girls, a campaigning charity set up by author and TV producer Susannah Walker and lawyer Imogen Clark, who argue that providing public space for girls is more than an ideal, it's a legal requirement under the Equality Act 2010 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 18, 2021•46 min
"We need to understand why places are poor, why people have fewer life choices, why their health is poorer... all major factors in place-based inequality," says Andrew Westwood, Vice Dean for Social Responsibility at the University of Manchester and commissioner on the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission. In this podcast, we discuss how England is the most unequal country in the OECD, about the impact of racial, class and place-based inequality, and the commission's radical id...
May 09, 2021•48 min
Imagine adding a few trees to your street, a public space, a few benches, maybe a bike rack. You may find it easy to envision your urban transformation, or at least know who to call to make that sketch. But how can the average citizen participate in the design process? That’s the question Ascha Lychett Pedersen is answering with her big app idea, Wild Streets. A macroeconomist and UN sustainability specialist, Lychett Pedersen, CEO of Wild Streets, had been working for the UN for a decade when s...
May 04, 2021•34 min
Going circular in construction is not just about saving the planet, it also saves on the bottom line, given the growing cost of waste disposal and the hidden costs of over-ordering in construction. In this podcast, May Al-Karooni, the inspirational founder and CEO of Globechain, talks about how she spotted the need for a reuse marketplace and sold the idea of circularity to the construction and built environment industry. Globechain diverts construction waste from retail and commercial refurbish...
Apr 21, 2021•57 min
Small post-industrial cities have walkable downtowns, affordable housing and the opportunity to become post-Covid places we want to be. But how can they avoid gentrification while attracting investment? Reif Larsen, founder of the Future of Small Cities Institute talks cars, resources and political influence. This podcast is supported by IE University School of Architecture and Design Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 8 min
"Built spaces are important signifiers to outsiders, and people in power like to think that what they don't see, doesn't exist," says Dr Omeasoo Wahpasiw in this podcast from her popular talk at the Festival of Place. Wahpasiw is Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education, and has written about Indigenous feminism and about how Indigenous design-thinking can inform architecture in a 'new-old' way. Wahpasiw is a policy analys...
Mar 01, 2021•47 min
Find out more about the new part-time Global Master in Real Estate Development at IE University. "If you are passionate about real estate, if you're a city-maker, this part-time programme is for you. Just log in from wherever you are around the globe on Saturday afternoon." Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design tells The Developer all about it in this sponsored podcast. Check out their Woman Scholarship for up to 25% off tuition fees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Feb 16, 2021•16 min
When they started Capital & Centric, they wanted to create award-winning architecture, says co-founder Adam Higgins. Ten years on, it’s about more than that. It's about doing something for the people who don't live in the buildings. Higgins talks working with "ugly" buildings, the barriers to lush landscape architecture, and about the Dutch and Scandi influences behind their Kampus development in Manchester. This podcast is sponsored by the Global Master in Real Estate Development at IE Univ...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Why doesn't the property industry work more collaboratively when it comes to tackling climate change and retrofit? David Cowans is Group Chief Executive of Places for People, one of the largest property management and development companies in the UK, which owns or manages 147,000 homes. In this interview, which took place at the Festival of Place, he tackles retrofitting, net zero, modern methods of construction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr
The Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, was elected in May 2016. On that day Bristol became the first major European city to have elected a mayor of black African heritage. During his first term in office he has overseen the building of over 8,000 homes, announced the development of a mass transit system and provided quality work experiences for over 3,500 children who wouldn’t readily have access. He led the successful bid to bring Channel 4 to Bristol and is leading the city’s response to both the ...
Jan 12, 2021•58 min
How do you design a feminist city, and an intersectional city? What are the questions you should be asking when designing and developing a place? From protest to the Sex in the City, Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, moves beyond Jane Jacobs to expose what a just, sustainable and women-friendly city would truly feel like, and how we get there. Live talk from the Festival of Place, followed by an audience Q&A Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...
Jan 03, 2021•59 min
A visit to Liverpool One shopping centre leads anthropologist Rebecca Toop to explore the role that shopping plays in our lives. In the context of the retail apocalypse, what can replace the social role of shopping? Part of a new miniseries where Christine Murray explores the best of The Developer 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 19, 2020•17 min
As offices migrate away from downtown, the people who formerly worked in them are subject to a double movement: some are being lured into the city by falling rents and the possibility of walking or cycling to their workplace when they do need to be physically present; others are taking advantage of remote working by relocating to places where they can enjoy more congenial lifestyles. In this audio version of an article written by Steve Taylor for The Developer, we find out what the mix of future...
Dec 12, 2020•28 min
In this podcast, we speak to First Base director Barry Jessup and Director of Partnerships, Olaide Oboh, about trust, delivering value, their social outcome statement, and making promises to communities that you can keep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 20, 2020•51 min
Dr Ben Clifford, author of the government report on the impact of Permitted Development on housing quality, speaks out about the devastating plans to extend the rights in the context of widespread planning reforms that will set the English standard of housing provision back more than 50 years. Consultation on wider planning reforms ends 1 October and can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changes-to-the-current-planning-system Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Once you have a radical idea, how do you test it, develop it, sustain it and grow? May Al-Karooni is CEO and founder of Globechain, a marketplace for construction, retail and office 'waste' that can be reused by charities as part of the new circular economy. Al-Karooni describes how she spotted a need six years ago and developed it into a purpose-based business that is now the world's largest reuse marketplace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 23, 2020•50 min
You want to do things differently. You've written your mission statement. But how do you ensure your business isn't just paying lip-service to change? How do your values manifest themselves in your business culture and practice? Vestre is a Norwegian furniture practice that has supported The Developer and the Festival of Place since inception. We hear from Commercial Director Romy Rawlings about how they put their social and environmental values into business practice. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Aug 17, 2020•47 min
The industry is locked in competitive silos, landscape architecture has been marginalised, communities lack a mechanism for meaningful involvement, policy is not shifting in the right direction, and planners are only focused on the potential, not the present. In the context of the climate emergency, we have got to get our act together. In the conversation with Will Sandy, we discuss why we need a Radical Rethink. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 10, 2020•37 min
Lee Hallman, former Head of Design for Qatari Diar Europe, speaks about Chelsea Barracks, the 13-acre development that found itself at the heart of a new style war, as revealed in the Prince of Wales' Black Spider Memos. With its first phase now complete, Hallman discusses the design evolution of the project in the context of changing tastes in architecture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 03, 2020•46 min
Can humans be social from 2m away? How can we shape urban space to bring us together now that Covid-19 has made us suspicious of strangers, fearful of shopping and transport, and locked us down, apart? Nick Tyler is Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, UCL and Director of CRUCIBLE Centre for Lifelong Health and Wellbeing at University College London, where his research investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate enviro...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 2 min
What happens when you take a 250-year-old network of canals and combine it with 21st century drainage technology? Katie Hughes, previous Estates and Commercial Director for Scottish Canals, tells the fascinating story of Glasgow's Smart Canal, a flood-prevention project that unlocked 110 hectares for redevelopment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 15, 2020•13 min
Carolyn Steel, author and leading thinker on food and cities, will explain how at this time of change, food is both a saviour and a source of stress. Steel's latest book, Sitopia or "food-place", explains how food is central to our quality of life, and the key to unlocking the predicaments and opportunities of our urban, digital age. Steel's talk was recorded at a Festival of Place Bytesize event run in association with U+I Think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Nick White, principal adviser for Net Gain at Natural England, explains the rationale behind improving the biodiversity of property developments and the push for net gain policy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 11, 2020•29 min
The £1.4bn Mayfield project in Manchester is on 24 acres of land that sit within 150 yards of Manchester Piccadilly Station with a river running through it. The only problem? No one in Manchester knew where it was. Which is why U+I have been running 'meanwhile' projects – or as they like to call it, 'worthwhile' projects. We speak to James Heather, development director, who is responsible for delivering for U+I as part of the Mayfield Partnership consortium, which also includes Manchester City C...
Jun 02, 2020•44 min
Mayor of Hackney Philip Glanville talks about the redevelopment of Kings Crescent Estate, Covid-19 emergency road changes, tree-planting and why child-friendly cities are more resilient. Glanville also explains why advocates for sustainable transport shouldn't assume that the lockdown has created a new consensus for a car-free future. It hasn't. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for a new way forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 27, 2020•1 hr 13 min
