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Detailer 58 - Tom Beardmore and Firdaous Idris
with Tom Beardmore and Firdaous Idris
David travels to Mount Anvil's One Clapham scheme to talk to the developer's social value and community engagement director, Tom Beardmore, and Firdaous Idris, one of the 'Future London Makers' it is working with alongside the GLA to find out (and put into action) what matters most to young people w
Detailer 57 - Sherin Aminossehe
with Sherin Aminossehe
David catches up with MOD director of growth and missions, former developer, architect and sketcher extraordinaire Sherin Aminossehe to talk about the power of drawing, growing up in Iran and migrating to London, railways, museums, being a race champion, war, peace, life as a civil servant...and 'Ye
with Mark Davy
David travels to Lewisham to chat to Futurecity founder Mark Davy about his background as an artist, the power of culture-led placemaking, 'drawing out' authenticity, connecting silos, how there is no such thing as developers, only development, and the shameful neglect of some large-scale public art
with Jude Barber
Water, water, everywhere... David meets up with Jude Barber of Collective Architecture in Canary Wharf's Eden Dock to talk about swimmable cities, waterfronts and port histories, publicly owned private spaces, who 'owns' the Clyde and the Thames, rivers gaining 'human rights'...and the 'water of lif
with Nabil Al-Kinani
David meets urbanist, placemaker and strategist Nabil Al-Kinani on his home patch - the 'best place in the world' - the Chalk Hill Estate in Wembley. They talk about histories and narratives, place-naming and the Empire, commemorating and celebrating stories, communities, 'The Authors of the Estate'
with James Lord
David sits in a shady corner of the new Queen Elizabeth II garden in Regent's Park with its designer, James Lord of HTA, to discuss its inspiration and sustainable lessons for cities faced with climate change, 'slow gardening', hedgehogs, Jamie Oliver, dyslexia, and Lord's own journey into landscape
