Tue 01/11/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
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Fresh ways at looking at shared, active, and sustainable movement of people, goods, and information.
Wed 08/02/23, 9.30am–12.30pm
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How to improve diversity, inclusion, health and wellbeing in our culturally diverse places.
Tue 21/03/23, 9.30am–12.30pm
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Why it is hard to change established approaches and suggestions on how best to move thinking along.
Wed 29/06/22, 9.30am–12.30pm
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Emerging building typologies and ways to design and deliver them including approaches to re-use and retrofit.
Agenda
10.00 Welcome
10.05 Introducing the issues
- Why thinking afresh is helpful, Sarah Allen
- The importance of flexible building use, Frances Hollis
- The impact of new building regulations on building types and designs, Adam Selvey
- The Living Report – research into future housing and city living, Kyle Buchanan
11.20 Comfort break
11.30 Considering how we use space; a student’s perspective, Tom Ushakov
11.45 Examples and new best practice
- Manchester co-living, Mark Sidebotham
- A new type of neighbourhood, Helen Arvanitakis
- Design for informal home based work, Richard Brown
12.30 Close
Thu 19/05/22, 10am–12.30pm
Zoom
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This session continues the fascinating Urban Challenge project we ran in 2021 looking at new ways of considering, planning, designing and managing places. This session will focus on neighbourhoods, the building blocks of towns and cities.
Agenda
10.00 Welcome & Introduction
10.10 Local Living – Creating a New Framework for Policy,
Charlie Peel
10:30 Building a New Neighbourhood – The Phoenix Project,
Jonathan Smales
10:50 Start Where you Live… ‘Unleashing Your Real IP’, Gary
Loftus
Q&A
Comfort Break
11:30 Doughnut Economics, Laura Boyle
11:50 Sustrans Research on Walkable Neighbourhoods,
Megan Streb
Q&A
12:30 Wrap Up & Close