Activities Archive - Past Events
Find out about our past activities.
10 May 2012 10am-5pm
Learning from Lilac: An invitation to a co-housing workshop
Lilac is hosting a day to share its learning to help other similar projects develop their ideas into reality. This day is aimed at those who wish to set up housing projects who have an emphasis on being - community-focused, low impact, co-operative, affordable, member-led, mutual.
29 March 2012 5.30-7.30pm
Cohousing: Designing inclusive communities
Explore what a cohousing community might look like in Newcastle
27 March 2012 9.30am - 4.00pm
Renewable Energy: Lessons from the Community Sustainable Energy Programme (CSEP)
The recent changes to funding arrangements and financial incentives in support of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies have changed the options for community groups and others to engage in small-scale renewable energy projects in their area.
14 March 2012 5-7.30pm
Designing Ouseburn's Future Part 2: Session 3 of 3.
Find out what happened at session 3. Session 3 gave the group the opportunity to assess a real emerging scheme design using the design and development criteria established in previous sessions.
Part of Designing Ouseburn's Future
12 March 2012 Drinks from 6.30pm, talk from 7 to 8pm
Neighbourhood Planning: for sustainable development, 12 March 2012
This is the third in a series of Architecture Centre Network talks exploring community engagement in the built environment.
21 February 2012 6.00-8.00pm (refreshments from 5.30pm)
Community led design: what is it and does it work?
What does 'community led design' really mean in practice? And does it lead to higher quality places and spaces?
Part of Glasshouse Events
16 February 2012 6.00 -8.00pm
How to turn towards a new landscape architecture? Landscape Architecture as skillful, accurate, and magnificent interplay of assembled vegetation under light?.Landscape not as moral crusade (nature perverted) but, once again, an aesthetic experiment (nature perfected). Landscape architecture as the ultimate public realm of the senses?
15 February 2012 5-7.30pm
Designing Ouseburn's Future Part 2: Session 2 of 3.
Click on this page to download the presentations from this session. This second session covered the judging of good design and guided the group on how to approach assessing a planning proposal.
Part of Designing Ouseburn's Future
26 January 2012 6.00 - 8.00pm
Embracing Not Airbrushing: Designing for an Ageing Population
How can and built environment professionals such as landscape architects through awareness, engagement and knowledge enhance the health and wellbeing of older people in the designs they create?
18 January 2012 5-7.30pm
Designing Ouseburn's Future Part 2: Session 1 of 3.
Click on this page to download the presentations from this session. This first session looked at the aims and potential outcomes of the project, an overview of how the development process works with a presentation from developers Igloo who are planning a six phase development in the valley starting with a residential development and explored the possibility for the group to become a Neighbourhood Forum. Find out more and view the presentations and background documents.
Part of Designing Ouseburn's Future