Festival of Place Agenda

09:00 - 09:50

Festival HallEnshrining Good Design in policy: Who decides what is beautiful? Is that what matters?

Speakers

Paul Monaghan

Executive Director

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Vicky Payne

Strategy, Research and Engagement Lead

Quality of Life Foundation

Dr Elanor Warwick

Head of Strategic Policy and Research

Clarion Housing Group

09:00 - 11:50

Market Hall at Playbar All day market stalls, refreshments and open bar

09:20 - 10:00

Town Hall at BeatboxTransforming Communities: The Power of Art in Public Places

Speakers

Marcus Willcocks

Research Fellow

Central Saint Martins

Dr Lorraine Gamman

Professor of Design and Director of DAC

Central Saint Martins

Honor Fishburn

Director

MurrayTwohig

10:00 - 10:50

Town Hall at BeatboxThe psychological impact of working in housing and community engagement: What can we do about stress and burnout?

Speakers

Felicity Maries

Programme manager - community development, partnerships and circular economy

Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team (RBKC)

Dr David Turgoose

Lecturer in Clinical Psychology

University of Leeds

10:00 - 10:50

Festival HallGentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies with Leslie Kern

Speakers

Leslie Kern

Author

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

10:00 - 10:50

The Pineapples at PlayboxThe Pineapples - Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, The Phoenix, Sustainable Terrace House

Speakers

Jonathan Tuckey

Director and founding architectural designer

Jonathan Tuckey Design

Andy Edwards

Co-founder and executive Director

Makespace Oxford

Clarissa Bromelle

Head of Social Imagination

Human Nature

Jonathan Smales

Executive Chairman, Founder & CEO

Human Nature

10:50 - 11:00

Festival HallMorning Break

10:50 - 11:00

Town Hall at BeatboxMorning Break

10:50 - 11:00

The Pineapples at PlayboxMorning Break

10:50 - 11:00

Workshops at FanboxMorning Break

10:50 - 11:00

Morning Break

11:00 - 12:00

Walking tours Branding the place

Speakers

Claudio Giambrone

Head of Marketing

Wembley Park

11:00 - 11:50

The Pineapples at PlayboxThe Pineapples - Mayfield Park, Brent Cross Town, St Helens Town Centre

Speakers

Sam Jarrett

Head of Marketing and Communications

Landsec U+I

Morwenna Hall

Partner and COO

Related Argent

Stuart Rogers

Project Director

Muse

Councillor David Baines

Leader

St. Helens Council

11:00 - 11:50

Town Hall at BeatboxTo fear or not to fear: Generative AI and urban planning

Speakers

Dr Elizabeth Rapoport

Director

Polygon Place Strategy

Paul Maltby

Director

AI Transformation in Government at Faculty AI

Dr Federico Cugurullo

Assistant Professor in Smart and Sustainable Urbanism

Trinity College Dublin

11:00 - 11:50

Festival HallAre you listening? Amplifying the voices of young community leaders

Speakers

Simeon Shtebunaev

Researcher

Social Life

Julia Szumilas

Young Community Pioneer

My Place

Channay Butler-Revell

Young Community Pioneer

My Place

+3

11:40 - 13:00

Workshops at FanboxFeminist Mapping - A deep-dive hands-on mapping public spaces while exploring the city through a gendered lens

Speakers

Imogen Clark

Co-founder

Make Space for Girls

Dr Julia King

Founder and Director

Social Place

11:50 - 12:00

Festival HallBreaktime

11:50 - 12:00

Town Hall at BeatboxBreaktime

11:50 - 12:00

The Pineapples at PlayboxBreaktime

11:50 - 12:00

Breaktime

12:00 - 13:50

Market Hall at Playbar Pop-golf

12:00 - 13:00

Walking tours Masterplanning Wembley Park

Speakers

Jason Flanagan

Design Director

Flanagan Lawrence

12:00 - 12:50

Town Hall at BeatboxCreative clusters and capacity building in communities: How can we create ecosystems of culture?

Speakers

Prof Christopher Gaffney

Professor of Archaelogical Science

University of Bradford

Akil Scafe-Smith

Co-founder

Resolve Collective

12:00 - 12:50

The Pineapples at PlayboxThe Pineapples - Dean Clough, Permanent Temporary at The Bottle Factory, Kinning Park Complex

Speakers

Jeremy Hall

Dean Clough

Managing Director

Noah Chulu Chinn

Co-founder

SUMweekly

Marc Cairns

Managing Director

New Practice

Chris Ortner

Senior Associate

Fabrix

12:00 - 12:50

Festival HallInside the Preston Model of Community Wealth Building

Speakers

Matthew Brown

Leader of Preston City Council and Senior Fellow for the Promotion of Community Wealth Building

The Democracy Collaborative

Antonia Jennings

Associate Director

Centre for Local Economic Strategies

Rokhsana Fiaz OBE

Mayor of Newham

Karen Hirst

Director

Maple Grove Developments

13:00 - 14:00

Festival HallLunch is served upstairs

13:00 - 14:00

Town Hall at BeatboxLunch is served upstairs

13:00 - 14:00

The Pineapples at PlayboxLunch is served upstairs

13:00 - 14:00

Workshops at FanboxLunch is served upstairs

13:00 - 14:00

Walking tours Lunch is served upstairs

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch is served upstairs

13:30 - 14:30

Town Hall at BeatboxRenewing High Streets: Breathing new life

Speakers

Morwenna Hall

Partner and COO

Related Argent

Amanprit Arnold

Property X-Change Programme Manager

Greater London Authority

Liam Kelly

CEO of Make CIC, NED

Magenta Living

14:00 - 14:50

The Pineapples at PlayboxThe Pineapples - The Adelaide Street Project, Little Kelham, George Street First New Town

Speakers

Chris Upson

Director

OGU Architects

Fearghal Murray

MMAS Architects

Jonathan Wilson

Managing Director

Citu

Rene Sommer Lindsay

Associate Urban Designer

AtkinsRéalis

14:00 - 15:20

Workshops at FanboxThe Equitable City - with Civic Engineers

Speakers

Leah Stuart

Director

Civic

Annabel Precious

Director

Civic Engineers

Claire Young

Associate and Sustainability Lead

Civic Engineers

14:00 - 15:00

Walking tours Samovar Space

Speakers

Dr Julia King

Founder and Director

Social Place

14:00 - 15:00

Market Hall at Playbar Market stalls refreshments and open bar

14:40 - 15:30

Town Hall at BeatboxCreating healthy homes at scale, pace and density

Speakers

Sophie White

Sector Head for Regeneration

Aviva Investors

Dr Rosalie Callway

Project and Policy Manager

Town and Country Planning Association

Mariam Kapsali

Architect & Passivhaus Designer

Architype

Mike Auger

Managing Director - South

Muse

15:00 - 15:50

The Pineapples at PlayboxThe Pineapples - Citizens House, Castlefield Viaduct

Speakers

Mellis Haward

Co-Director

Archio Architects

Janet Emmanuel

Chair of the Citizens House Community Steering Group and Assistant Headteacher at Sydenham School

Duncan Laird

Head of Urban

National Trust

15:00 - 16:00

Walking tours Curating Retail at Wembley Park

15:00 - 17:00

Market Hall at Playbar Pop Golf reopens and market stalls, refreshments and open bar

15:40 - 16:20

Town Hall at BeatboxCo-designing places

Speakers

Amandeep Singh Kalra

CEO and Founder

GreenFlip

Fiona MacDonald

Matt + Fiona

Mellis Haward

Co-Director

Archio Architects

Yẹmí Àlàdérun

Head of Development

Meridian Water

15:40 - 17:00

Workshops at FanboxSocial spaces in public places - Vestre with Prof Nick Tyler, Romy Rawlings and Cannon Ivers

Speakers

Nick Tyler

Director, Centre for Transport Studies, UCL

UCL

Romy Rawlings

Commercial Director

Vestre

Cannon Ivers

Director

LDA Design

16:30 - 17:10

Town Hall at BeatboxSocial investing: Making the right impact

Speakers

Dan Hill

Urban designer and reseacher

Dark Matter Labs

Marie-Alix Prat

Investment Manager

Big Society Capital

17:00 - 19:30

Market Hall at Playbar Festival Afterparty with Pop-Golf and entertainment

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