U+I Think: Meanwhile Worthwhile Forever

U+I IS A SPECIALIST REGENERATION DEVELOPER AND INVESTOR.We have a £10.8 billion+ portfolio of complex, mixed-use, community focused regeneration projects including a £130.6 million investment portfolio in the London City Region, Manchester and Dublin.To find out more, visitwww.uandiplc.comor follow us @uandiplc.

The directors of U+I, in partnership with <A HREF="http://dotdotdotproperty.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dot Dot Dot</A>, the property guardian social enterprise, are delighted to invite you to the latest U+I Think event. Join us for an informal evening of drinks, networking and a vibrant panel discussion on the future of meanwhile use chaired by urban regeneration advisor David Barrie.
From pop-up swimming pools to urban gardens, cinemas,supper clubs and street-food festivals, boutique Boxparks to waste recycling centres, creative and useful ‘meanwhile’ uses for empty tracts of real estate in our cities have become a well-rehearsed form of urban entertainment. Across the country ‘temporary’ uses have become a permanent fixture. At Elephant & Castle, an alphabet soup of mobile gardens and shipping containers is fast turning into a new community of growth entrepreneurs. ‘Pop Brixton’ is now seeding many new ventures, capturing and applying the energy and excitement of the entrepreneur to dead car parks and a derelict sweet factory. 
Have we reached Peak Meanwhile? Do the Cinderella Spaces of our cities need a new generation of Prince Charming? And who will be the new communities of the future, once the current cast of hipsters, hustlers and hackers have moved on? 
Panelists:
David Barrie (Chair)
Katharine Hibbert - Founder and Director, Dot Dot Dot 
Roger Wade - Founder, BoxPark
Eric Reynolds - Founding Director, Urban Space Management 
Reza Merchant - CEO, The Collectiove / Pop Brixton
Dan Taylor - Programme Manager (Regeneration), London Borough of Southwark
Anna Strongman - Senior Projects Director, Argent
 
 
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