Day 2: Caring Spaces and Communities

 

Session 1: Blether (10.00am - 10.45am)

Christina Gaiger PRIAS will be joined by speaker Daisy Narayanan, Senior Manager – Placemaking and Mobility at the City of Edinburgh Council, for an interactive conversation focussing on some of the themes of the day.

Session 2: Collaboration and innovation in practice (11.15am - 1.15pm)

Facilitated by Satwinder Samra, Director of Collaborative Practice and a Senior University Teacher at the Sheffield School of Architecture

Presentations from speakers below followed by Q&A.

  • Gannochy Trust Lifetime Neighbourhood Andy Duncan, Estates Manager, The Gannochy Trust & Rowena Statt, Associate, Anderson Bell Christie (further speakers tba)

  • Hospital of the future - Sean Madden, Executive Director of Capital Development at Hamad Medical Corporation

  • Gap Homes: Redefining Housing for Young Care Leavers - Michael Dougall, Associate at O’DonnellBrown and Emma Good, UK Business Development Manager for the Gap Homes programme at Barnardo’s

Session 3:Kiln Place and the future of high density, high quality, affordable housing (1.30pm - 2.00pm)

Alice Brownfield, Director Peter Barber Architects
Alice Brownfield, Associate Director at Peter Barber Architects and recipient of the MJ Long Award for Excellence in Practice 2021 will share some of the practice’s award winning, high quality, high density street-based public housing.  The short talk will focus on the design and delivery of new council homes within the Kiln Place Estate in London and discuss the opportunities for estate infill as well as the need for wider collaboration and action to address both the housing and climate crisis.

Alice Brownfield is an architect, a chair of Part W (an action group campaigning for gender equity across the built environment) and a trustee for Action on Empty Homes.  Alice is an Associate Director at Peter Barber Architects - a London based practice renowned for a number of ground-breaking urban social housing and homelessness projects. Alice is an advocate for high density, low to medium rise housing and equitable cities, underpinned by a belief that architecture can create the potential for social action.  She is the recipient of the 2021 MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice in recognition of her housing work and advocacy for equity in the built environment.  She has been a design tutor, visiting critic and lecturer at a number of UK schools of architecture, is a member of the London Borough of Havering Design Review Panel and has given talks on the design of high quality, high density housing and homelessness accommodation at various events across the UK and in Norway.           

Session 4: Virtual sustainability speed mentoring (7.00pm)

Delivered in collaboration with RIBA Smart Practice Conference, this session will provide the opportunity to pair up with highly respected mentors for three 20-minute one-on-one conversations (numbers for this session are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis)