Roundtables
Pattern 2023: What Happens at a Placemaking Festival?
When Manchester poet Tony Walsh closed our first Placemaking, Culture & Leadership festival, it felt right.
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Does the built environment have a language problem
In Pattern’s recent roundtable meetup, our invited panel, led by Rob Henderson from JDA architects talked about creating cohesive communities, and leadership within the built environment.
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How Will AI Change the Built Environment?
Pattern is a forum for progressive placemaking and the built environment. Every fortnight, we invite a panel of guests to explore ideas and share insights. Our latest discussion centred on artificial intelligence (AI) and its likely impact on the built environment.
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How Should Placemakers Reflect Cultural Change?
In our most recent roundtable, the panel looked at cultural shifts in how we live and work and how placemakers should reflect these changes. These changes include greater flexibility and hybrid working. They impact across sectors. Plus, there are significant implications for how placemakers themselves will work in the future.
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Closing the Impact Investment Gap
Investment strategies that aim to generate positive societal, environmental and cultural change should be the perfect match for placemaking. Our latest discussion was about the gap in perception and action between investment and community needs.
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Can the Office Avoid Becoming a Cultural Misfit?
Pattern is a fortnightly, invitation-only meetup where participants talk about issues concerning placemaking and the built environment. The latest topic under the microscope was the cultural fit of office culture. Is the Office a Cultural Misfit?
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How to Ensure Social Value is Aspirational AND Practical
Every fortnight, we invite participants to Pattern, a roundtable discussion for the built environment and its related industries. Our latest topic was social value and what questions and challenges it presents in moving from aspiration to action.
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