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The latest news, opinion, insight and inspiration.
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Campaign news
Buildings, emotions and belonging: a workshop with UCL
Exploring how our experiences can shape the places we call home.
Long reads
Your city is a Shein haul
Why are cities so boring? And is ‘fast architecture’ serving anyone?
Views
Love in the details: celebrating architecture that puts people first
As Humanise turns three years old, how is the conversation around human-centred design changing?
Research
Delivering Humanised Places: what’s our new research partnership all about?
The programme set to transform how Britain’s buildings, towns and cities are designed, and to challenge the ‘blandemic’ of dull, soulless development.
Research
Wanted: researchers with built environment experience
Details of three brand new roles as part of our exciting new project.
Campaign news
£1.5 million research partnership launched to transform how we design buildings and cities
We’re on a mission to challenge the ‘blandemic’ of dull, soulless development – and explore how to design and deliver more humanised places at scale.
Inspiration
How Oslo gets its citizens involved in shaping their city
Design festivals are great for grabbing attention. But Oslo shows how they can also create healthy citizen debate about the future of cities.
Inspiration
Seeing the public as your client: creative community engagement case studies
As we publish four new case studies offering creative ways to engage communities in conversations about cities, Sam Phillips explores what changes when you think of the public as the client commissioning a new building.
Shortlists
Ten King’s Cross Characters
Our choice of interesting, joyful and human buildings in and around King’s Cross.
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