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Bloqs has launched its open access factory at Meridian Water in Upper Edmonton, Enfield, in north-east London. It's the first of its kind in the UK, a highly versatile 21st century invention – 'a new kind of laboratory for a new day', as Al Parra, one of the co-founders and directors, heralds it. Bloqs is seeding the creative industries at Meridian Water and helping to support cultural futures locally. This issue of Urbanista.org is devoted to Bloqs' innovative model born of rich experience and solid, enlightened partnerships.
Utopian Hours: Manifesto for a New City Making, the first festival dedicated to innovative city making, is a rallying call for city planners, experts, makers, shapers, activists and developers to imagine new forms of city-making through conceptual innovation, showcasing some of the most inspiring ideas of recent years. This groundbreaking event launches for the 7th
How can we achieve residential retrofitting at scale, because improving the performance of a home brings widespread economic, social, and environmental benefits. On display from 10 May – 20 October 2023, ‘Retrofit 23: Towards Deep Retrofit of Homes at Scale’, a new exhibition at the Building Centre, curated by Lucy Bullivant, explores these issues. The need
In Love with the World, Anicka Yi’s aerobes installation gracing the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern includes xenojellis and planulae, aquatic and terrestrial. These floating hybrid eco-tech machine species (mobile thanks to UAVs) develop individual and group behaviours over time, influenced by elements in the ecosystem. What if AI could learn through the senses rather
Groundbreaking educationalist Neil Pinder, in his talk for Temple Bar Trust (6 October 2021) argues for the need for architects and all built environment professionals to adapt their use of language to relate closely to the context of the audience. The power of words, phrases, the spoken word – summed up as language – is
Tara Gbolade is the latest architect to give a talk to Temple Bar Trust on 18 October 2021, chaired by Lucy Bullivant. She presented some of Gbolade Design Studio’s architecture and policy projects as case studies, highlighting how the practice responds to environmental, social and economic sustainability priorities, with the ultimate goal of designing kinder
This year’s London Festival of Architecture 2021 adopts the highly topical theme of ‘care’, and exhorts us all to care more. Lucy has been curating Temple Bar Trust’s programme of online talks since June 2020 and our two events in the LFA programme (1-30.6) are: ‘Creating a healthy and child-friendly street for Great Ormond Street
Wed 10 June 2020, Day 44 of the 100 Day Studio: Lucy Bullivant, founder of Urbanista.org, reads from ‘A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the fight for a place to call home’ by Laura Gottesdiener, as part of Bedtime Stories, a nightly series of broadcasts on Instagram curated by Alicia Pivaro for The 100 Day
Together with Urban Vision, Urbanista.org has launched Urban Manifesto, a new webinar series creating a manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future as the world transitions from the COVID emergency into a new era. For our first episode we explored ‘Streets as Places of Mobility and Interaction’ with London-based architect Dinah Bornat and
‘Making Meridian: Enfield faces its future’ is a new article by editor-in-chief of Urbanista.org Lucy Bullivant, featured on the cover of the 152 page winter issue of New London Quarterly, published with a redesign by Stefano Meroni. In it she explores Enfield Council’s creative leadership impacting its bespoke approach to Meridian Water. Along with
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) – having announced that ‘Power’ would be the theme of the 2020 festival, updated this in April during the UK pandemic lockdown to confirm that ‘exceptionally, for this year, our festival in June will be a new digital festival with the wider core public programme taking place later in the
