What role can the buildings, spaces, homes, neighbourhoods and high streets of the city of Glasgow play in creating opportunities for connection and collaboration across ages and generations? How can Glasgow learn from and/or inspire other cities?
Join us for Multigenerational Places: Glasgow on Tuesday 28 October at the Glasgow School of Art. As part of the School’s wider City Forum event focusing on Liveable Cities, this interactive WEdesign event invites you to explore what makes a city truly liveable for people of all ages. Set against the backdrop of student-led analyses of Glasgow and Copenhagen, the session offers a fun and thought-provoking co-design activity that reimagines how Liveable cities could evolve through the lens of multigenerational design.
Multigenerational Places: Glasgow is a collaboration between The Glass-House Community Led Design, The Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art and Missing in Architecture. Our interactive co-design activities will be led by GSA students involved in the WEdesign Student Programme.
All are welcome. No specific experience or expertise is required to join in. We believe that our events only benefit from a wide mix of voices, interests and experiences.
This is a free event but places are limited.
About WEdesign 2025/26: Contributing to a National Conversation
Multigenerational Places: Glasgow is part of the 2025/26 Glass-House WEdesign programme, which brings people together across communities, ages, sectors and disciplines to explore how we can create more spaces to connect with people of other ages, and how this might benefit us as a society.
Through a series of free public co-design events, think pieces and a student design competition, this year’s WEdesign series will be a space to co-produce a national Multigenerational Places Manifesto, collecting voices, ideas and recommendations for shaping more multigenerational places across the UK.
Find out more about the full Multigenerational Places programme here.
Multigenerational Places is a collaboration between The Glass-House Community Led Design Glasgow School of Art & Missing in Architecture (Glasgow); University of Sheffield, Live Works & Israac Somali Community Association (Sheffield); UCL Bartlett (London), Newcastle University & The Farrell Centre (Newcastle); Arup (Practice); and Intergenerational National Network (Think Pieces).
