How does design of our homes, streets and places need to evolve?

COVID-19 has been a fast and effective stick for change, and the locus and radius of our lives has rapidly changed and this has had a huge impact on the regard we have for our homes. In this session, we were joined by designers, a social motivator and modal shift champion, to discuss how our homes specifically will change in response to this.

Our guests; Noha Nasser, Mela Social Enterprise, Adam Tranter, Fusion Media and Cycling Mayor of Coventry, Martin Prince-Parrott, Blackswan Properties joined our Urban Design Director, Luke Hillson and Partner, Iain Painting. Thoughts ranged from: 

• The fundamentals of how we invest in homes and ‘land’
• Transforming driveways and streets themselves into pocket parks
• The opportunities for communal/common space provision
• The challenge of open plan within our homes
• The granularity and variety of ‘need’ becoming even more apparent across generations.

Listen in for more detail on each of these and more, and their rallying and very motivating call for us to grab the opportunities that lie ahead!