Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast THE GRIMSHAW PODCAST
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| TO LEAD IS TO COLLABORATE: A CITY'S SUCCESS | 29 sept. 2026 | 01:17:48 | |
A specific focus of Jess Miller's work has been to transform what she calls the City’s “lazy spaces” into places of collaboration and gathering by introducing reforms to turn unused property into affordable housing and retail, and new spaces for the creative industries, by night or day. A former TEDxSydney curator and board member, Jess reminds us, in whatever city in the world this podcast is being listened to, in that exuberant and inclusive articulacy that she is known for, how important to city-shaping elected community leaders can be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| RETROFITTING SUBURBS, TRANSFORMING CITIES | 08 sept. 2026 | 01:02:16 | |
Ellen's work has centered on what happens when aging infrastructure, from shopping malls to office parks, no longer serves the communities around them. As co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, she helped define a movement and a moment. The book documented how underperforming, car-dominated spaces could be reimagined into walkable, resilient, and socially connected environments. Over time, her research expanded into a growing database of more than 2,500 retrofit projects. These case studies explored how design can address public health, climate resilience, economic development, and equity, all through the lens of reuse rather than expansion. Her work, now seen as central to strategies for the sustainable reinvention of our cities, has made her one of the most influential international urbanists Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| PROMOTING A GLOBAL CITY | 24 août 2026 | 00:58:55 | |
Global cities compete for investment. A key part of that competition involves bidding for and winning strategically important business events and conferences which attract market leaders and top talent in their specialist fields to spend time and money in your city. Beyond the immediate financial and employment benefits for local providers of hospitality and a wide range of services and sectors, the reputational gains for cities can also be significant. Long term, strategic investment can flow from such events and if the offer inside the event is reinforced by that outside it, attendees can often decide that this city is where they want personally to be and their enterprise to flourish. Success in business events tells us about the performance of the city itself and how it is seen by global markets. This is why we wanted to speak with someone promoting Australia's global city to the world, Amanda Lampe of BE Sydney. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| REPAIRING FRAGILE NEIGHBOURHOODS | 06 août 2026 | 01:03:52 | |
Urbanist Richard Florida called Seth Kaplan’s book "essential and engaging ". Tim Williams talks about the book with Seth and also his latest initiative. Flourishing Neighborhoods. We learn what makes places ‘fragile’ and what practical steps local community leaders and social entrepreneurs have taken to fix, repair and restore them to health.
Find out about some really powerful exemplars and people across the States and beyond who have succeeded in turning their communities around. Of interest and inspiration to anyone seeking to achieve urban transformation, anywhere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSFORMING PERFORMANCE | 21 juil. 2026 | 00:56:30 | |
Mark Coates is a recognised leader in infrastructure policy and digital transformation. In his role, Mark, with over three decades of experience in construction and global project delivery, collaborates with governments, policymakers, and industry leaders globally to champion the adoption of cutting-edge digital solutions, driving efficiency and innovation in infrastructure development. In this episode Mark talks about the work of IPA and the influential Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) Summits he oversees, which bring together leaders in business and government across the globe to tackle shared challenges through innovation, sustainability, resilience, and inclusivity in infrastructure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| PROTECTING RENTERS AND TENANTS: A GLOBAL DISCOURSE | 03 juil. 2026 | 01:08:21 | |
The housing crisis is an international one, though it can take different forms in different countries. What is shared is the need to protect and promote the interests of renters, tenants and others who may be vulnerable in our various housing systems. Two people doing great work in their own neck of the woods that is also, we believe, of international significance are the two leaders brought together for the first time for this Grimshaw Cities podcast: Richard Blakeway, England's Housing Ombudsman and Trina Jones, Rental Commissioner for New South Wales. It's an engaging but important global dialogue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: CHALLENGE AND RENEWAL | 09 juin 2026 | 01:02:10 | |
People acquire houses but they live in and come from neighbourhoods. In this timely conversation Andrew talks with Grimshaw's Head of Cities, Tim, about the state of British neighbourhoods and the interventions his Commission, chaired by the well-respected former minister Hillary Armstrong, recommends renewing them. Although the Commission has been focussed on neighbourhoods in the UK, the interventions it recommends are relevant well beyond the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| GIMME SHELTER: THE HOUSING HIJACK | 06 mai 2026 | 01:07:09 | |
Everyone talks about the housing crisis. Few talk about the systems producing it. In this special edition of the Grimshaw Podcast, Tim Williams sits down with economist Cameron Murray, author of The Great Housing Hijack, to unpack the political, economic, and urban forces reshaping housing in Australia and beyond. Not just a conversation about property. A conversation about how cities work, who they serve, and what happens when housing becomes detached from civic purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THE CITY AND AI | 08 avr. 2026 | 00:58:08 | |
AI will transform how we work in the built environment, yet there are still more questions than answers, and many feel unprepared for what comes next. In this episode, Dr Tim Williams speaks with Tom Sanchez, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, and author of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning. He offers a clear and practical roadmap for urbanists navigating this shift. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DOWNTOWN RENEWAL - SAN FRANCISCO | 13 mars 2026 | 00:56:37 | |
City centres everywhere are seeking renewal. In this episode Robbie Silver, President and CEO of Downtown SF Partnership, tells us what’s creating San Francisco’s new momentum at the city’s heart. Joining us in the conversation is Andrew Byrne, Grimshaw’s Managing Partner for our LA studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| REBEL URBANIST | 29 janv. 2026 | 00:54:47 | |
Journalist, author and activist Elizabeth Farrelly, is the best known urbanist in Australia, with an international reputation. The title of her recent best-selling book, Killing Sydney: the Fight for a City’s Soul, speaks eloquently of her concerns but also of her independent spirit and determination to change the direction of the city she loves. A feisty and characterful conversation full of insights not just about Australia’s global city but cities in general and how communities need to be galvanised to ensure they still provide opportunities for all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| HOUSING: PLACE MATTERS | 19 déc. 2025 | 00:38:33 | |
The international drive to increase housing supply is an opportunity to improve existing communities but also to design and deliver new high-amenity, higher density, low carbon, mixed use settlements. In this episode Tim Williams talks with Sara Waller – title, of Sovereign Network Group/SNG and Kirsten Lees, architect, masterplanner and Managing Partner, Paris for Grimshaw, about meeting this dual challenge. Though, much of the discussion focusses on the UK, where the government is targeting 1.5 million new homes over the next 5 years, many of them in next-generation New Towns, the discussion will be of interest to all those working internationally to make better, more sustainable and inclusive places. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| BETTER HOMES, THRIVING COMMUNITIES | 04 déc. 2025 | 01:02:01 | |
In the first of two episodes on social and affordable housing , Tim Williams sits down with Mark Washer the CEO of Sovereign Network Group/SNG, one of the biggest providers in the UK, with an asset base of 85,000 homes, to talk about managing a massive business with a big social purpose: to provide good, affordable homes that are the foundation for a better life – with the aim of sustaining thriving communities, over generations. Joining them in the conversation is architect and master planner Kirsten Lees, Grimshaw’s Managing Partner in Paris and Sara Waller, SNG’s Head of Place, a role showing the significant emphasis SNG puts on supporting sustainable communities. In episode One we talk about the demands of running a big social housing provider and developer of affordable homes, under a new Government with housing as a priority. A specific focus is the role social housing providers can play in delivering the 1.5 million homes the UK Government wants to see built over the next 5 years, some of them in the exciting New Towns program. Episode two, has Sara and Kirsten further developing the focus on ‘housing in place’ and the need to design and deliver not just great housing but also great communities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A BIG & CLEVER IDEA: AUSTRALIA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL | 29 oct. 2025 | 00:50:57 | |
Tim Parker has massive experience of successfully managing big urban infrastructure and development projects. In this episode, he shines a light on his unique insights from an impressive CV and speaks with both passion and clarity about leading his latest large-scale project: the Federal Government’s initiative to build high speed rail initially between Newcastle and Sydney on Australia’s east cost, with the ambition to build further on this link in future. This is a massive transport undertaking, promoting a low-carbon transition from car and air over to rail, and economic and housing development and community opportunity – a project of national, and we think international, significance of interest to listeners from a wide range of professional and policy backgrounds and countries. Big ambitions for a big country: seems about right to us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| BUILDING CITIES OF HOPE | 14 sept. 2025 | 01:03:08 | |
In the latest Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Tim Williams interviews Syrian architect and best-selling author Marwa al Sabouni. Unable to practice her profession in her battle-ravaged city of Homs, as the buildings and the lives around her and across Syria were reduced to rubble, Marwa Al Sabouni turned her fierce intelligence to chronicling how her city and country were undone through decades of architectural mismanagement and mistakes. The result was The Battle for Home in 2016 and Building for Hope:Towards an Architecture of Belonging(2021). We talk about these important books, her architectural advocacy and the values Marwa believes that architecture needs to embody so as to promote greater civic harmony, humanity and yes beauty in a divided and often ugly world. A really important and challenging conversation about why, what and how we build with someone with a unique voice and standpoint not heard enough in the international discussions about the future of our cities: exactly what the Grimshaw cities podcasts were created to do. Joining Tim and Marwa on this occasion is Grimshaw architect and urbanist, Awkar Ruel, with his own special experience and contribution as an Iraqi-born Sydneysider. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| BREAKING THE HOUSING-FINANCE CYCLE | 18 août 2025 | 00:57:08 | |
Tim talks with international housing expert Professor Josh Ryan-Collins of UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| CHINA'S URBAN REVOLUTION | 22 juil. 2025 | 00:57:41 | |
Tim Williams talks with Austin Williams, director of Future Cities and author of China’s Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities. What can we learn, as environmentalists, planners and architects, from the eco-city initiative and overall from the Chinese process of urbanisation? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A MANIFESTO FOR OUR CITIES | 24 juin 2025 | 01:03:30 | |
Dr Aruna Sathanapally, CEO of Australia’s leading urban thinktank, the Grattan Institute, talks about the key policy priorities to make a more productive and inclusive nation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| CITIES: AVOIDING 'NEO-FEUDALISM' | 02 juin 2025 | 00:41:34 | |
Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in California, is the author of the best-selling book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. He is widely recognised as a leading international commentator on the future of cities and suburbs. In this episode, Joel joins Tim Williams for a passionate and insightful conversation about key urban trends. They explore Joel’s concern that declining home ownership and growing inequality are leading to a concentration of wealth and power reminiscent of pre-modern Europe. An important and thought-provoking discussion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| TEXTS AND THE CITY: LIBRARIES AS PUBLIC SPACES | 08 mai 2025 | 00:49:38 | |
Today's episode features Dr. Caroline Butler-Bowden, State Librarian for the State Library of New South Wales, alongside Dr. Tim Williams and Grimshaw Principal, Eduard Ross. Together, they explore the role of libraries and museums in shaping cities and their significance as dynamic public spaces. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| TAKING BACK THE STREETS | 01 avr. 2025 | 01:05:08 | |
On today's episode, Dr. Tim Williams examines how America's largest city has grappled with the tensions between cars and public transit since the 1960s, with Nicole Gelinas, author of 'Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car' and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. As a key part of this conversation, we also have Grimshaw Deputy Chairman and Partner, Vincent Chang sharing his insights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THE ESSENCE OF CITIES | 02 mars 2025 | 00:40:53 | |
Dr Hila Oren has an international reputation as a city-making and branding expert. In her work in Tel Aviv over decades she has helped make that ‘smart-city’ a recognised global leader in tech start-ups and innovation. In conversation with our host Tim Williams, Head of Cities at Grimshaw, Dr Oren shares that journey with us and her insights into what other cities can learn from it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ON TRACK: RESHAPING LONDON, WINNING THE STIRLING PRIZE | 09 févr. 2025 | 01:30:50 | |
We are excited to share this unique episode to begin the fifth series of the Grimshaw Cities Podcast, The Resurgent City. Today we speak with our very own Jorrin ten Have, Associate Principal and Graham Gibbon, Principal about how Grimshaw, collaborators and clients collectively designed and delivered the Elizabeth Line – and won one of the world’s most prestigious architectural awards. Featuring special guest Howard Smith, Transport for London Elizabeth Line Director. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| HOMES FOR ALL | 20 nov. 2024 | 01:00:08 | |
Making sure that cities provide enough social and affordable housing has become a global priority. Rebecca Pinkstone, head of new government agency Homes NSW with its $6b budget and 130,000 homes in ownership, leads the charge in Australia’s global city. Joining Tim Williams in this episode is housing specialist Leigh Hanekom, Associate Principal at Grimshaw. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DESIGNING THE FUTURE CITY | 30 oct. 2024 | 00:42:58 | |
Cities are in flux in the wake of the pandemic with further disruption imminent in the era of Urban AI. On today's episode of the Grimshaw Cities Podcast Series, Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT Senseable City Lab & Curator of the 2025 Venice Biennale asks, "What role for architects in the future city?" Also joining the conversation is Keith Brewis, Partner at Grimshaw. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THE RESILIENT CITY | 13 oct. 2024 | 00:59:20 | |
This episode's guest is Beck Dawson, who has an international reputation in her crucial role as Chief Resilience Officer for Australia's global city, Sydney. In this conversation, Beck shares her acute insights into the international innovation and best practice for promoting the resilience of our cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| MOBILITY AND THE CITY: NEW THINKING | 27 sept. 2024 | 01:02:48 | |
Today's guest is Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, based in Canada. Todd is recognised internationally as a thought leader in transport and city-planning. This episode discusses everything from congestion charging through Transit Oriented Development, to EVs and AVs, so don't miss it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| PARRAMATTA: INDIGENOUS MEETING PLACE TO WORLD STAGE | 10 sept. 2024 | 01:03:53 | |
Our guest is Gail Connolly, urban planner and now CEO of one of the most important councils in Australia, Parramatta, at the fast-growing heart of the nation’s global city, Sydney. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| URBAN INNOVATION AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION | 09 août 2024 | 00:58:19 | |
In this episode, Tim talks with Andrew Chappell, the Head of Origination at international developer, LendLease about his current, broad real estate, place-making and ESG portfolio. Andrew also discusses LendLease's recent development work in Silicon Valley, and his early and continuing involvement in innovation districts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| RUNNING A BIG CITY | 12 juil. 2024 | 00:50:35 | |
In this episode, Tim talks to the Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, Tom Riordan CBE about managing the services for and economic development of Leeds, one of the biggest and most important British cities. Joining them is award-winning architect Mark Middleton, Grimshaw's Group Managing Partner who has the further distinction of being a fellow Yorkshireman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| SMART ADVOCACY FOR THE CITY | 13 juin 2024 | 01:01:54 | |
Tom Wright, President of the storied and influential Regional Plan Association of New York talks about their impact, current campaigns – and the future of the tri-state area. Tim is also joined by Niharika Shekhawat, an Urban Designer at Grimshaw's New York studio, to discuss how she interacts with the RPA's legacy in her own work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| SOCIAL HOUSING ANALYTICS: VIENNA AND LONDON | 15 mai 2024 | 00:56:14 | |
Architects Gustavo Maldonado-Gil and Christina Lenart, both Masters in Space Syntax from the Bartlett School, do a deep dive into data analytics, housing and urbanism, with acute insights into success factors for social housing design and location. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CITY | 12 mars 2024 | 00:53:55 | |
Today, the Grimshaw Cities podcast is pleased to launch the first episode of our new, fourth series: The Intelligent City. Dr Tim Williams welcomes Dr. Sarah Barns, founder and director of ESEM Projects, a leading expert in experiential art, design and digital storytelling for urban precincts. Sarah Barnes was recently awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship from RMIT to further her work as an urban strategist. She is known for her facilitation of community, creative and digital programs that connect people, places and habitat. Grimshaw’s Head of Design Technology, Andy Watts, joins Tim and Sarah in this conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| SHAPING THE URBAN FUTURE | 21 déc. 2023 | 00:58:47 | |
In this episode Oxford University’s Professor Michael Keith talks about his unique experience as someone who has combined analysing cities across the globe with leadership of a major London council. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THE HEALTHY CITY | 01 déc. 2023 | 00:52:32 | |
Professor Billie Giles-Corti of RMIT is a global expert on the links between how cities are structured and public health and climate outcomes. In this podcast we discuss her research but also the strategies she identifies to improve cities - and public health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| VISIONS OF THE CITY | 18 sept. 2023 | 00:54:06 | |
In this edition, Tim Williams interviews Professor Alex Krieger of the influential Harvard School of Design about his recent book City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. Visions drive city-making and in this podcast we learn about the diverse visions that have shaped US cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| GOVERNING INNOVATION | 14 août 2023 | 01:04:35 | |
In this episode of the Building the City series, Julie Wagner, President of The Global Institute on Innovation Districts, discusses her new report on the seven key factors in designing effective governance of innovation districts – crucial new foundations of the next stage of the urban economy. Listen to Episode 9 Governing Innovation with your host, Tim Williams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| FINANCING THE GREEN CITY | 17 juil. 2023 | 00:54:04 | |
In the latest episode of the Building the City series for the Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, a global leader in green finance tells us "Box-ticking and greenwashing won’t achieve the scale of the transformation required to meet the challenges of the climate emergency. Cross-sector collaboration and the focused application of the creativity, innovation and skills of the financial services industry to finance the global transition will". Listen to Episode 8: Financing the Green City with your host Tim Williams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| HOMES AND CITIES FOR ALL | 16 mai 2023 | 01:01:36 | |
This is the seventh episode in the Building the City podcast series. Hear from your host Tim Williams in conversation with Kate Davies CBE who ran one of the largest and most dynamic Community Housing Providers in Europe, with over 60,000 properties in its portfolio by 2022. In this podcast, she describes the impact of Notting Hill Genesis Housing Association and how to deliver ‘homes for all in the city for all’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THE NET ZERO CITY | 19 avr. 2023 | 00:50:22 | |
The Net Zero City is the sixth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews Peter Newman AO, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. Peter has written 20 books and 300 papers on sustainable cities and is well known for creating the term "automobile dependence". As a key author on transport on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Peter is a global leader at the interface of urban policy and transport on the journey to the net zero city. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ASIA AND THE URBAN FUTURE | 27 mars 2023 | 00:53:54 | |
Asia and the Urban Future is the fifth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, Professor Richard Hu of Canberra University and author of Reinventing the Chinese City (2023) and Smart Design (2021) gives us an impressive overview of key city trends in Asia and indeed across the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| CITIES BY DESIGN | 24 févr. 2023 | 00:47:16 | |
Cities by Design is the fourth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews David Hutton, Group Head of Development with global firm Lendlease. Based in Singapore David has worked on major city-shaping projects all over the world and oversees the company's Urbanisation Practice, focused on sharing best practice in design and development across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| REGENERATING CITIES | 16 déc. 2022 | 01:00:20 | |
Regenerating Cities is the third episode in the Building the City podcast series. Your Grimshaw host, Tim Williams, discusses urban regeneration and planning with Dame Alison Nimmo DBE who has a distinguished career in the field of UK cities and urbanism. She spent eight years helping to win and subsequently deliver the London 2012 Summer Olympics as a Director in the Olympic Delivery Authority and has led major city centre regeneration projects in Manchester and Sheffield. Listen to Tim Williams and Alison Nimmo DBE’s conversation on regenerating cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| BUILDING PLACES FOR PEOPLE | 16 nov. 2022 | 00:55:26 | |
As cities grow, affordable housing options need to be made available for all communities. In Episode 2 of the Building the City podcast series, Grimshaw talks to an internationally acknowledged expert in social and affordable housing who is the former Group Chief Executive of Places for People Group, one of the largest social and affordable housing providers in the world. If anyone knows the way forward for affordable housing, it’s David Cowans. Listen to David and Grimshaw’s Tim Williams, himself a former UK government advisor on housing, discussing the future of building more inclusive and affordable cities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| ABOUT BUILDING LONDON | 02 nov. 2022 | 01:02:05 | |
Building Cities is the third Grimshaw podcast series about our cities. In this series we interview leaders from around the globe about their role in our built environment from architects, urban designers, and developers to infrastructure providers or indeed builders. We kick off our first episode with a special guest–a leader working from behind the scenes as a key advisor to the city builders who reshaped London in the last 25 years: Richard Brown, former advisor to the London Mayor on urban design and Olympic planning and former Deputy Director at the Centre for London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| CULTURE AND PRECINCTS | 31 août 2022 | 01:05:39 | |
The 10th episode in the Culture and the City series of the Grimshaw podcast finds Tim Williams, Practice Lead of our Cities Group in conversation with Kate Meyrick, a director with major planning consultancy Urbis. Kate is the former CEO of the Hornery Institute, and a passionate urbanist and place maker with more than 25 years of international experience across Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. She is a respected expert in visioning and positioning city scale precincts, working sensitively with stakeholders and the community to co-create powerful new futures for well-loved places. The podcast reviews international examples of cultural precincts and Transit Oriented Developments as well as the exciting prospects for Brisbane arising from the city being the location for the 2032 Olympics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| VALUING CULTURE | 10 août 2022 | 01:00:53 | |
Mark Davy is the founder of Futurecity, a global cultural placemaking agency. Futurecity create cultural strategies for public and private sector organisations, broker cultural partnerships and deliver major art projects. Recent projects include the development of a prospectus for the new Arts Quarter in London’s famous West End; a new program called ‘Preview’ consisting of ‘Living Labs’ in property developments across the UK to encourage creative incubation in spaces designed to attract young and emerging talent; and the curation of a landmark cultural partnership between the Centre Pompidou and leading international developer Beulah International as part of ‘STH BNK By Beulah’ – an ambitious vertical city development in the heart of the Arts Precinct of Melbourne. Mark, who has a long term relationship with Grimshaw, talks about these and other great cultural placemaking projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| DYNAMIC CULTURES | 20 juil. 2022 | 01:07:46 | |
John Montgomery is an internationally renowned planner and urbanist who has published four books on cities and urban policy, with perhaps his best known one being The New Wealth of Cities. Currently based in Brisbane, Dr Montgomery began his career in the UK where he directly influenced government policy on town and city centre revitalisation, night time economies, the 24 Hour City, and the role of the ‘creative class’ and culture in city dynamics. John has helped design cultural and innovation precincts internationally, including Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Brisbane and Sydney. John speaks with passion, deep insight and humour about the challenges facing cities today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| THE ART OF THE CITY | 06 juil. 2022 | 00:46:44 | |
In this latest episode of our Grimshaw podcast, Culture and the City series, Tim Williams interviews Rose Hiscock, Director of Museums and Collections at The University of Melbourne. Prior to this, Rose was Director of Science Gallery Melbourne and Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Australia’s contemporary museum for excellence and innovation in applied arts and sciences. Rose is recognised as a national leader in her field with an international reputation. The discussion focuses on her role and the amazing collections she curates; her passion for the arts and for her city Melbourne; her innovative engagement with First Nations’ communities and cultures; and her great work in enabling young people, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, to access the city’s key galleries and collections. Rose is a city-shaper combining expertise and soul, which is why this interview is called: The Art of the City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| CULTURES OF RESILIENCE | 08 juin 2022 | 00:52:48 | |
Architecture can embody and project power. But it can also, especially in our cities, be a tool in the hands of those who resist, expressing the creativity and resilience of their cultures. In Episode 6 of our Culture and the City Series, Tim Williams speaks about this and much more with Sumayya Vally, Johannesburg-born founder of Counterspace. In 2021 Sumayya designed the Serpentine Pavilion and in 2022-23, she will curate the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah. In this powerful and compelling conversation, Sumayya traces the paths of her career trajectory and sources of inspiration, revealing why the city is the place where diverse peoples gather and co-create. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||