At a time of deep political and social divisions, when the importance of diversity and inclusion is being challenged and threatened, it feels more important than ever to enable connections and collaborations across generations. Yet 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.
What role might the buildings, spaces, homes, neighbourhoods and high streets of London and other towns and cities play in creating more multigenerational environments? How can those designing, curating and using these spaces make a difference to how they serve people of all ages?
Join us for Multigenerational Places: London, where we’ll explore these questions through discussion and playful making activities, working together to co-design ideas and recommendations for how we can create more multigenerational cities, towns and neighbourhoods.
Multigenerational Places: London is a collaboration between The Glass-House Community Led Design and UCL Bartlett School of Planning. The event’s co-design activities will be co-facilitated with UCL students involved in the WEdesign Student Programme. The event is kindly hosted by The Alan Baxter Gallery.
We encourage people of all ages and from all walks of life to join this creative space for collaborative blue-sky thinking on how we might do things better in the future.
This is a free event but places are limited.
About WEdesign 2025/26: Contributing to a National Conversation
Multigenerational Places: London 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).
