Homes England talk: Place Quality Framework
“We need healthy, happy, vibrant and inclusive places – not as nice to haves, but as the fundamental expectations for development.”
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Place Quality Framework
Innovative purpose-led approach, method and system to embed health, social impact, inclusivity and equity into the design of new development
Urban Design London talk
New Ideas for Welcoming Cities Natasha joined a panel at Urban Design London on "New Ideas for Welcoming Cities" and presented the Place...
Urban Empathy: Short talk
London Society webinar: Wellbeing and High Density After Covid. Natasha shared her Urban Empathy manifesto and the latest development of...
NATURE & EMOTION at Healthy Cities Design conference
Reorienting towards nature with new narratives of Life-Centred Design In these times of increasing stress, can new forms of natural,...
Biophilic Design with Wallpaper* magazine
Designing with nature is key to shaping places for people's health, wellbeing and quality of life. Natasha Reid spoke on a panel chaired...
Health and Wellbeing must be Re-embedded into the Heart of Planning
Natasha Reid's piece for the Royal Town Planning Institutes publication - The Planner magazine - makes the case for integrating heath...
Spatial Justice and Systemic Change: For Equitable, Healthy and Sustainable Places.
Thought-piece by Natasha Reid for Sound Advice's "Now You Know", a publication challenging spatial and racial inequality including...
Urban Empathy: The Next Big Shift
Essay and call-to-action by Natasha Reid, published in the Quality of Life Foundation's collection of thought-leadership pieces here...
Compassionate Places: Short talk
What would our built environment look like if we took our emotional, psychological and social needs as the starting point for creating...
Loneliness Lab: Design to connect talk
We spoke at the Loneliness Lab’s “Design to Connect” series of events, sharing our work on how to design for sociability, community and
Conscious London festival: Flourish
Natasha co-chaired and co-curated the Conscious London 2020 conference, as a fellow of the Centre for Conscious Design, exploring how to...
Living Homes: Innovating new models for wellbeing
We were invited to take part in a panel discussion held by European think-tank Class of 2020 on future health & wellbeing standards and...
OUR SURROUNDINGS AS A TOOL FOR HUMAN HEALTH AND WELLBEING
In response to the current situation, and as are most in our industry, we are considering what the pandemic means for the design of...
Design for wellbeing workshops
We’ve been doing a lot of work on rethinking housing and the emotional, social and psychological impacts that places have our us and were in
A new framework for harnessing the emotional and social power of places
Research paper as part of the Conscious Cities Anthology 2019, which explore how science-informed design can create a healthier, more...
Speaking at the Mayor's Homes for Londoners conference
Natasha was honoured to present the practice's work on "Building Connectedness" as part of the Innovation room - for how we can create...
Re-humanising Housing: New models
HIGH DENSITY AT A HUMAN SCALE Much has been written on the housing crisis, but it is clear that many of those who make the city function...
Intimate Series: People-conscious development
How can we do High Density Development at a Human Scale? Can we make places to fit people, not the other way around? To coincide with the...
Housing crisis: London Build panel
London Build Conference. Housing Panel Can architects and developers help to resolve the shortage through strategic design? What are...
Intimate Neighbourhoods: NYC placemaking research grant
We are delighted to announce that we've been awarded funding from the British Council and Arts Council England for phase 1 of our major...
New Ideas for Housing: Ecobuild conference
For a quick-fire overview, see a video of our presentation at Ecobuild last month below - 20 slides presented in 20 seconds each.The...
Re-imagining Poplar: Research commission for British Council
A research commission for the British Council's International Architecture Showcase to generate new thinking on regeneration in East London.
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