Glass-House Chats: Designing Multigenerational Places

The Glass-House Community Led Design is a national charity dedicated to connecting people with the design of their places, and connecting design with people. For over two decades, we have supported communities, organisations and networks to work collaboratively to shape buildings, spaces, homes and neighbourhoods.The Glass-House sees design not only as a tool for creating great places, but also as a way to connect people and empower them with enhanced confidence, skills and a greater sense of agency. We provide hands-on support and training, share knowledge and learning, and inspire new thinking and debate through action research, events and resources.

The Glass-House Community Led Design

Glass-House Chats are one-hour online sessions for an informal chat about people, design and placemaking.

Glass-House Chats: Series 6

Glass-House Chats are monthly hour-long online spaces for conversation and connection, where we explore a range of themes around people, design and placemaking. each month we are joined by an inspiring co-host.

Multigenerational Places: WEdesign 2025/26

Through a series of free public co-design events, the 2025/26 WEdesign Series, Multigenerational Places, will bring people together to develop ideas and  recommendations for shaping more multigenerational places across the UK.

<h4>Co-hosted with Pat Scrutton, <a href="https://otbds.org/projects/intergenerational-national-network/" title="https://otbds.org/projects/intergenerational-national-network/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Intergenerational National Network</a></h4><h4><br></h4><p>In our society, activities, services and many of our places have been shaped to cater for the specific needs of distinct stages of our lives. We find surprisingly few opportunities to connect with people of different ages outside our family circles. Instead, we generally find ourselves studying, working and socialising within our own age group.</p><p>Our co-host for this WEdesign crossover Chat is Pat Scrutton, Coordinator at <a href="https://otbds.org/projects/intergenerational-national-network/" title="https://otbds.org/projects/intergenerational-national-network/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Intergenerational National Network</a>. Together, we’ll explore how we can create more spaces to connect with people of other ages, and how this might benefit us as a society. We’ll consider the potential improvements to our health and wellbeing, our social, economic and cultural lives, and to our natural environment.</p><p><br></p><h4>About Glass-House Chats</h4><p>Glass-House Chats are monthly hour-long online spaces for conversation and connection, to ask questions and explore ideas, approaches and methods, share learning and meet others.</p><p>Series 6 sees us collaborating with a range of inspiring people and organisations who will co-host sessions with us. Each guest co-host will help us bring focus, expertise and experience to conversations about different aspects of the design of places. From empathy to sustainability, we’ll unpick some of the successful ingredients of design and explore what great design can achieve.</p><p><br></p><h4>About our Co-host</h4><p>Pat Scrutton has a background in community development. She retired in 2009, but continues to co-ordinate the <a href="https://otbds.org/projects/intergenerational-national-network/" title="https://otbds.org/projects/intergenerational-national-network/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Intergenerational National Network</a> in Scotland. In recent years, she has also become involved in a number of research projects related to active ageing and ageing in place, always from an intergenerational perspective, with the Universities of Dundee, Stirling and Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt University.</p><p><br></p><h4>How to Take Part</h4><p>Glass-House Chats are open to anyone with an interest in the event topic. No specific experience or expertise is required to join the conversation. We believe that our Chats only benefit from a wide mix of voices, interests and experiences.</p><p>These free online events are kept intentionally small so that everyone taking part can jump in and join the conversation. Where possible, we encourage participants to keep their cameras and microphones on, to pose questions and ideas, and to share stories and links.</p><p>To create a safe space for open discussion, the Chatham House Rule is applied. Key discussion points are collated, anonymised and shared after each session.</p><p><br></p><h4>How to Book</h4><p>Glass-House Chats are free events, but places are limited, so please register only if you plan to attend.</p><p><br></p><h4><em><em>Please note:</em></em></h4><p><em><em>We will record the Chat session to help with capturing the conversation, but this recording will not be made publicly available or </em></em><em><em>shared outside The Glass-House team. </em></em><em><em>Following the event, we will publish a blog capturing key discussion points, but rest assured that no-one will be quoted directly, and no participants will be named. </em></em><em><em>Please feel free to email us at info@theglasshouse.org.uk if you have any queries.</em></em></p>

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