Festival of Place Agenda 2025

09:30 - 10:10

Community Centre at Mezzanine SouthHousing for older people: Healthy homes and intergenerational living

Speakers

Charlotte Miller

Co-Founder

Intergenerational England

Jude Leighton

Head of Housing

United St Svaiour's

Simon Beck

Senior Development Manager

Related Argent

09:30 - 10:15

The Pineapples at PlayboxBuilt Works: From the office to the campus, how do we create spaces that bring people together

Speakers

Matthew White

Director

MATT Architecture Ltd

Faye Davies

Managing Director

Burrell Foley Fischer

Lien Geens

MCW Architects

09:30 - 10:30

Workshops at FanboxCreating the collaborative city – why system thinking is key

Speakers

Leah Stuart

Director

Civic

Rob Harris

Director

Civic

Gareth Atkinson

Civic

09:30 - 10:10

Town Hall at BeatboxClean slate: New Towns and places from scratch: Looking to the future and learning from the past

Speakers

John Lewis

Executive Director - Sustainable Places

Peabody

Michael Chang

Associate Town Planner (Healthy Planning Lead)

NHS Property Services

Soham De

Director

EcoResponsive Environments

Hilary Satchwell

Director

Tibbalds planning and Urban design

10:00 - 10:50

Festival HallState of Place: What now for creating healthy and vibrant places

Speakers

Peter Babudu

Executive Director

Impact on Urban Health

Yolande Barnes

BREI Chair

Bartlett School of Real Estate

Nigel Hugill

Chief Executive

Urban&Civic

+2

10:00 - 10:45

Walking tours Build-to-rent – Luna

10:30 - 11:15

Town Hall at BeatboxYes Ball Games: Designing neighbourhoods for happy and healthy childhoods

Speakers

Dinah Bornat

Director

ZCD Architects

Marie Williams

CEO

Dream Networks CIC

Jonny Anstead

Founding director

TOWN

Simon Battisti

Creative Director

Start with Children

10:30 - 11:15

The Pineapples at PlayboxFuture places: Exploring different strategies and approaches to the public realm

Speakers

Sabrina Safdar

Senior Planner

OPDC (Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation)

Rasmus Astrup

Design Principal and Partner

SLA

Thomas Clark

Studio Egret West

Associate Director

Jon Watson

Development Director

Landsec

10:50 - 11:50

Workshops at FanboxTrip chaining: Drawing on research with young women and their experiences of public space

Speakers

Dr Julia King

Founder and Director

Social Place

Olivia Theocharides-Feldman

Founding Associate

Social Place

11:00 - 11:45

Festival HallMorning keynote: Taking action to reduce health inequalities: Addressing the conditions in which people are born, grow, work and age

Speakers

Professor Sir Michael Marmot

Director

UCL Institute of Health Equity

11:15 - 12:00

Walking tours New Public Spaces and Meanwhile Uses at Wembley Park

Speakers

Julian Tollast

Head of Masterplanning and Design

Quintain

11:30 - 12:10

Town Hall at BeatboxPlace-led impact investing: Pushing for system change to unlock places and pay for social infrastructure

Speakers

Mark Hepworth

Co-founder and Director of Research and Policy

The Good Economy

11:30 - 12:15

The Pineapples at PlayboxCommunity Engagement: How to listen, collaborate and create flexible, responsive and tailored places where people thrive

Speakers

Dinah Bornat

Director

ZCD Architects

Laurence Neal

Design Lead

The Earls Court Development Company

Wongani Mwanza

Architect

Transition by Design Cooperative CIC

+3

12:00 - 13:00

Festival HallFostering belonging by design through public art, engagement and design

Speakers

Marine Tanguy

CEO

MTArt Agency

David West

Founding Director

Studio Egret West

Ramsey Yassa

Director

Nooma Studio

12:00 - 12:45

Walking tours Masterplanning and Placemaking - Developing around stadia: Research and practice at Wembley Park

Speakers

Julian Tollast

Head of Masterplanning and Design

Quintain

12:10 - 13:10

Workshops at FanboxGoing beyond compliance: Understand the scandalous crisis termed ‘Purplewashing’ and why, as designers and placemakers, we need to get beyond compliance to support human rights to create truly inclusive places

Speakers

Jessica Noël-Smith

PhD researcher, University of Stirling and Founder

Beyond Access

12:30 - 13:10

Town Hall at BeatboxNet zero and decarbonisation: Challenges, opportunities, action

Speakers

Amandeep Singh Kalra

CEO and Founder

GreenFlip

Lamé Verre

Sustainability Director - Net Zero

The Crown Estate

Jamie Wheeler

Senior Project Manager

Quintain

14:00 - 14:45

The Pineapples at PlayboxHomes: Renewing the past and looking to the future: Learn from three different approaches to housing development, from a New Town to cohousing to retrofit

Speakers

Sam Goss

Founding Director

Barefoot Architects

Stefan Sjöberg

Founding Director

Kjellander Sjöberg Architects

Mike Bodkin

Head of Planning

TOWN

Shevaughn Rieck

Partner

Farrells

14:00 - 14:40

Community Centre at Mezzanine SouthWhen AI gets it wrong: The Value of the statistically insignificant in an AI era

Speakers

Dr Jutta Treviranus

Director

Inclusive Design Research Centre

14:00 - 14:45

Town Hall at BeatboxHow Cities Keep Failing Women After Dark

Speakers

Nourhan Bassam PhD

Founding Director

The Gendered City

Tara Gbolade

Co-Founder and Director

Gbolade Design Studio

Anna Barker

Associate Professor in Criminal Justice & Criminology

University of Leeds

Eve Avdoulos

Senior Associate and Urban Research Lead

We Made That

14:00 - 14:45

Walking tours Curating Retail and an Active Ground Floor at Wembley Park

Speakers

Matt Slade

Retail Director

Quintain

15:00 - 15:40

Town Hall at BeatboxNeurodiversity and neuroarchitecture: Brain science and designing an accessible and inclusive city

Speakers

Nick Tyler

Director, Centre for Transport Studies, UCL

15:00 - 15:45

The Pineapples at PlayboxRegenerative Practice: Two radical projects breaking fresh ground in material reuse and collaboration, driving change and new methods of engagement and construction

Speakers

Gareth Atkinson

Civic

Tom Webster

Director

Webb Yates Engineers

Basil Demeroutis

Managing Partner

FORE Partnership

Jan Kattein

Director

Jan Kattein Architects

15:00 - 15:45

Fishbowls at Pop Golf #BuiltBarriers: What barriers do women and girls face in the built environment — and how we can design for equity and inclusion?

Speakers

Emma Carter

Associate

Bell Phillips Architects

Yẹmí Àlàdérun

Head of Development

Meridian Water

Zoë Berman

Founder

Studio Berman

+2

15:00 - 15:45

Walking tours Branding the Place and Cultural Placemaking at Wembley Park

Speakers

Claudio Giambrone

Head of Marketing

Wembley Park

15:00 - 15:40

Community Centre at Mezzanine SouthAfternoon keynote: Tackling housing inequality

Speakers

Tom Copley

Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development

Greater London Authority

16:00 - 16:45

Community Centre at Mezzanine SouthEvolving the masterplan: 20 Years of Wembley Park

Speakers

Julian Tollast

Head of Masterplanning and Design

Quintain

John Stiles

Placemaking Manager

Brent Council

Jason Flanagan

Design Director

Flanagan Lawrence

Davinia Khan

Artistic Director

Fresh Arts

16:00 - 16:45

Town Hall at BeatboxDelivering better social housing

Speakers

Alex Ely

Founder

Mae Architects

Setareh Neshati

Head of Development

Westminster

Yẹmí Àlàdérun

Head of Development

Meridian Water

Peter Barber

Peter Barber Architects

16:00 - 16:45

Fishbowls at Pop Golf Legalise Loos: The fight for places to go. The number of public toilets has reduced by 40% since 2000. Should they be a mandatory requirement?

Speakers

Rose Marshall

Associate Director

ING Media

Olaide Oboh

Managing Director and Board Member

Populate and Socius

Jo-Anne Bichard

Professor of Accessible Design

Royal College of Art

16:00 - 16:45

The Pineapples at PlayboxPlaces in Progress: Three transformative, ambitious mixed-use projects, two led by local authorities with a third by a Community Land Trust

Speakers

Neil Guthrie

Development Director (Residential)

Sunderland City Council

Jess Steele

CEO and Commoner-at-Large

Hastings Commons

Kate Ingram

Director of Economy and Development

Burnley Borough Council

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris	Hawkins\Brown	Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
a-r-c-s	Homes England	Related Argent
Are You?	HUB	Ryder Architecture
BDP	LDA Design	shedkm
Broadway Malyan	LocatED	Socius
Buro Happold	Medway Development Company	Stride Treglown
BWB Consulting	Morris+Company	Studio Egret West
Cadogan	Muse	Tibbalds
Civic	National Trust	The Earls Court Development Company
EPR Architects	nghomes	Urban&Civc
Essex County Council	Notting Hill Genesis	Vestre
Fathom Architects	Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation	West Northamptonshire Council
Farrow Walsh	Places for London	Whittam Cox Architects
Furnitubes	Peabody
Gillespies	Poplar HARCA
Griffiths & Armour	Quintain

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