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Find out what the PLACED team have been up to. You can find updates on our projects, latest opportunities, and latest blogs below.
PLACED Assistant Director, Sam Hayes, has been reflecting on the new Get Britain Building call from Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves with a blog of his thoughts. “Get Britain building” is the call from Kier
This June PLACED will bring a groundbreaking conference to BOXPARK Liverpool. Better Places Together is designed to challenge and reshape how engagement and social value are approached in the built environment. Taking place in Liverpool
On the 29th January we ran a workshop with 30 students at Carmel College in St. Helens. The session aimed to design and build a life-sized prototype of a portable shelter. We tasked the students
On Thursday 4th July, I attended my first The Developer and Festival of Place conference at Wembley Box Park representing PLACED. It was an enriching day and lots of important topics were discussed with incisive
Active Travel Ambition: Liverpool City Region Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Conference A combined Active Travel England and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority event, we all met at the Floral Pavillion in New Brighton on a
I was lucky enough to be able to attend Pattern Festival recently. Pattern Festival isn’t like other place-based and built environment events, and that was clear from the outset as we were greeted by Manchester
UKREiiF was an experience. From arriving in Leeds on the Tuesday with a bag of fresh business cards and booklets, we felt the buzz from the event instantly. Jo and Sam had attended UKREiiF in
We’re excited to announce applications are OPEN for the PLACED Academy 2023-24 programme! Starting with a 4-day summer school in late July, the programme consists of monthly sessions that are packed full of creative and
We recently had the pleasure of travelling up to Penrith to run a workshop in partnership with The Joanna Scott Foundation. We were working with 25 year 10s from Ullswater Community College to present the built environment as
PLACED Senior Project Manager Dr. Samuel Hayes attended the Planner Live North annual conference, hosted by the RTPI and organised by the RTPI Northern branches. This year in Manchester, it focused on the three Cs
We’re delighted to announce that our #PLACEDAcademy 2024-25 Sponsorship offers are now LIVE! In our fresh new branding (designing by our participants themselves), we’ve put together a brochure of all the opportunities and packages available to support