Housing for hope and wellbeing

Imagine an inclusive, trustworthy and transparent planning system built on robust real time data. Based on a series of research projects focussing on community mapping - most recently the Public Map Platform - this talk makes the case for a comprehensive, freely available and granular layered map of the UK that brings together a wide range of data sources including data made by children and young people.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

About the speaker

Flora Samuel is Professor of Architecture and Head of the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. Former Vice President for Research at the RIBA she works at the boundary between practice and academia. Dismayed by the poor quality and sustainability of the built environment, particularly in less affluent areas, her work over the last ten years has focuses on developing spatial mapping methods to ensure that quality of life is accounted for in architecture and planning, the focus of her most recent book Housing for Hope and Wellbeing. She is currently PI on a large AHRC funded Green Transitions Ecosystems project, the Public Map Platform, based on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn in North Wales. She is also leading on the development of the Cambridge Room, a space where communities, local authorities, universities, business and industry can come together to gather data and vision a future for the most unequal city in Britain. This charity is offering inclusive planning consultation services based on deep connections with communities in the area.