Juliet Bidgood
Juliet Bidgood is an architect/urban designer who works at a range of scales from the tactical to the material to realise built projects or advise on the development of places. Her expertise is in public buildings and spaces and residential neighbourhoods.
She is passionate about shaping places collaboratively with communities. For Design West she has led – Stakeholder Engagement for the B&NES Local Plan, Placemaking Strategies for the two towns of Nailsea and Clevedon and the development of the West of England Placemaking Charter. Projects initiated include Glastonbury Instant City an action research project with Central St Martins and CIAM6 Cities Re-Imagined for Bridgwater Arts Centre - an HLF funded programme that amplified the town's international design heritage, devising a contemporary manifesto with young people.
Over two decades Juliet has advised local authorities and communities on design leadership, the preparation of design guidance, site development briefs and design competitions – recently developing a design code brief for Tewkesbury Town Centre and contributing to the design team selection for an LUF project for Bristol City Council. She has delivered CPD for the RIBA on Consultation, Placemaking and most recently on; ‘Regenerative design and the role of neighbourhoods in enabling the circular economy’. She is a Building for Healthy Life Assessor for Homes England.
She chairs the North Somerset and South West Design Review Panels and is a member of the Design South East Panel. An experienced RIBA Client Adviser and project enabler she is former chair of the RIBA Client Advisers Steering Group. Her practice is informed by research and the teaching of urban design and architecture at Cardiff and Bath Universities. She was a Senior Adviser at CABE, a CABE Enabler and a founding partner of the award-winning collaborative practice; muf Architecture/Art.
MA Dip Arch RIBA