Festival of Place: Climate Resilience 

20 - 21 October, 2025

 

Update your thinking and learn from new research and pilot schemes. Find out how to transform, design and develop places that are ready for uncertain and unpredictable weather events and policy changes, such as the phasing out of fossil fuels.

Organisation members go free register here using your work email. 

 

Not a member? Enquire about membership or book a single ticket. Early bird pricing ends soon.

You can assign attendee details after booking. Watch your email for unique joining link sent from the event platform Airmeet.

 

Delivered live with Q&A over two lunchtime sessions, everything is recorded and available on demand. Join our community to learn about the latest pilot schemes and research findings and gain CPD hours. 

 

In multiple sessions delivered over long lunches, we will focus on floods, soil health, and visionary sustainable developments. The event will be sharing fresh research and case studies on topics from overheating to land use to update your learning and support your strategic planning.

 

 

We’re excited to share the first confirmed sessions:

• Jonathan Smales, Founder & CEO, Human Nature (Places): “There is a far, far better world. But it has to be seen to be believed” - Discover how The Phoenix, a landmark 7.9-hectare sustainable development in Lewes, is reshaping what resilient places can be.
  
  
• Dan Matthews, Earth & Geoconsultancy Director, Civic, with Professor Jess Davies, Professor of Sustainability, Lancaster University: “It all starts with soil” - Soil stores carbon, supports biodiversity, and underpins life itself. Learn why soil health should shape the way we plan and build.
  
  
• Shannon Baker, Director, Parks and Public Realm, Waterfront Toronto: “We moved a river” - See how 30 hectares of industrial land were transformed into a naturalised river valley and 80-hectare park to protect urban communities from flooding in Toronto.

• Catherine Butler, Associate Professor, University of Exeter: Programme to be announced
  
  
• Lamé Verre, Sustainability Director - Net Zero, The Crown Estate: Programme to be announced

Our event will help you: 

• Future proof and de-risk your places: Fresh thinking on how to create resilient places and make a positive environmental and social impact in the context of climate change. Understand the risks to thriving places and gather solutions and inspiration to fuel better strategic decision-making.
  
  
• Gain valuable CPD hours: The sessions will count towards formal or informal CPD hours and meet criteria that requires content on the topics of climate, sustainability, resilience, and environmental and biodiversity net gain; flooding; sustainable architecture; places, planning and communities, and more, depending on your accreditation.
  
  
• Take a systems approach to climate resilience, exploring win-win approaches to climate strategy in the fostering of vibrant, mixed-use, prosocial and community-led places

 

Members go free: Organisation membership is available with unlimited access for your organisation to Climate Resilience and tickets to all festival events, enquire with james@thedeveloper.live or call 020 3326 7238

The 2025 event is supported by Civic

 

 

Non-member tickets

Tickets are available for purchase for £175+VAT. Don’t miss the early bird special offer for tickets at £125+VAT - offer ends soon. Book now   Membership includes tickets to all Festival of Place events. To enquire about membership, contact james@thedeveloper.live

Member tickets

If your organisation is a member, simply register using your work email linked to your organisation by clicking the box below. A list of current organisation members is provided below. All staff have free access to this event. After registering, you will receive an email from Airmeet with your unique link.