Built Environment

Build Festival UK 2025 organised by Global Generation.

Saturday 19 July 9.30-5.30 at the Story Garden Ossulston St NW1 1DF

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/globalgeneration/1638893

This one-day festival brings together all those who want to celebrate kinder and more inclusive placemaking. Organised by a collective of organisations, it will explore how we can incorporate more innovative nature-based solutions, climate-friendly building practices while also involving communities in shaping their built environment.

The festival will have inspiring talks alongside practical workshops and networking opportunities. The workshops will be hands-on and focused on sustainable building practices—including natural construction materials and traditional earth-based techniques. These will be complemented by roundtable style sessions on topics like working well with young people and communities or tackling retrofit and material reuse. Come be part of an inclusive and collaborative environment where professionals, community members, and organizations can share insights, learn from one another and strengthen the movement that is growing in…

In person and oneline event Dr Paul Watt talk based on his recent book .

https://secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=62&date=13%2f05%2f2025

The book provides an in-depth account of how the controversial policy of public/social housing estate regeneration – in the form of demolition and rebuilding – is radically reshaping London’s housing and socio-spatial landscapes. It is based on a decade of research at over a dozen council-built housing estates in the boroughs of Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets.

The first part of the lecture traces the history of council housing in London and also examines the shifting policy rationales for estate regeneration. The second section focuses on residents’ experiences of living through estate regeneration and introduces the notion of ‘degeneration’. The third section focuses on the aftermaths of regeneration and suggests that ‘fragmented’ rather than ‘mixed’ communities are being created.