In 2009, Urban Living commissioned a consortium of practitioners to develop a new approach to ‘sense of place’ in the Birmingham and Sandwell Housing Pathfinder.

Urban Living; Nabeel Hamdi; Multistory; MADE; CUDOS; Architecture Sans Frontières; 00:/architecture; Digital Native Academy; our Community Researchers; and Neighbourhood Managers, Tracey Thorne and Colin Hanno, invite you to come and take part in a day of discussion, debate and participatory activities to explore new ways to connect community voices and livelihoods to strategic plans.

Is traditional masterplannning becoming outdated? This free event will show how masterplanners and regeneration professionals can work with communities to build a sense of place, drawing on examples from the West Midlands including from Urban Living, the housing renewal pathfinder.

New Theories, New Practices
Keynote Speaker:  Professor Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus Professor of Housing and Urban Development, Oxford Brookes University

Making the Practical Strategic - UK and international examples on community action plans which have informed masterplans.

Putting theory into practice - New tools and techniques to capture local people’s stories of sense of place.

Do Dream Pledge - identifying the catalyst and daring to start small Demonstrations from consortium members.

Informing the masterplan - A question and answer session on scaling up the process and what we have learnt.

MADE will be live blogging this event.