Urban Design Leaders of the Future
A fast-paced, high-energy evening looking at pressing issues in the design of towns and cities and how we manage them.
- Event starts at 6:30pm sharp
- 5 minute presentations
- 2 minutes of audience questions(Audience members may ask questions up to 10 seconds in length or just one sentence!)
- Prize for the most popular pitch(bottle of wine of questionable quality from Chteau dUDG)
PRACTICE
Education - Awareness - Silos
Lisa Taylor, Director of Future of London
On the education, awareness and the issue of silos, taking findings from the Future London Leaders programme http://www.futureoflondon.org.uk/future-london-leaders/
PLAY
Car Park Play
Andrew Stuck, Rethinking Cities
Proposal to reconfigure land use devoted to street or surface car parking and make such spaces available for play and recreation; to build up a directory of such places and secure sponsorship from parking landlords and tenants for storage of play equipment
https://challenge.geovation.org.uk/a/dtd/Car-Park-Play/569842-16422
HOUSING
A new private rental model
Martin Ellerby
A new private rent model that will deliver high quality, low-energy homes for the growing demographic that is caught between ownership and social housing.
A design-led collective custom-build solution to Londons housing crisis
Neil Double, Naked House Community Builders
A group of urban designers and others who have come up with a design-led solution to London's spiralling housing crisis, harnessing the power of collective custom build.
LIVEABILITY
Liveability Indicators
Chris Sharpe, Holistic City Software
How software can calculate and supply objective indicators (e.g. average distance from a dwelling to a convenience shop, or park, or post office) but which of these indicators matter most to the people who live there?
PUBLIC REALM
London Inn Square, Exeter
Dan Jenkins, Jacobs
The redesign of busy city centre spaces
CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Super Urbanism: Tackling climate change through urban design
Graham Freer
Why urban design has a crucial role in tackling climate change¦
The beginners guide to the urban heat island
Julie Futcher
What are urban heat islands, why they matter, what we should be doing about them.
LIVING WITH WATER - FLOODS AND FLOODPLAINS
Aquapolis - solutions to the urban form of sinking expectations?
Ian Lyne, Chairman of Placedynamix
A short story of bathtubs, rubber duck debugging, SUDS and DRIPS.
Flood innovation, licences and flood resilient development
Richard Coutts, BACA
All welcome - No need to pre-book - Just come along and pay on the door.
Entry fees: £3 members / £7 non-members / £1 member students / £3 non-member students
