These four day courses will provide you with the basic knowledge and skills you need to promote good design through your work.
You will learn about:
- The way places are structured and the characteristics of well designed schemes.
- Why urban design is important and how it fits in with your work.
- How to assess and discuss design quality
- Design tools, policies and processes you can use in your job.
We are running foundation courses on:
What do they include?
Day 1 – An introduction to urban design including explanation of the main principles and the elements that make up schemes.
Day 2 – Looking at the theory, processes and policies relating to one of the foundation course themes
Day 3 – Considering the way design is dealt with in every day solutions
Day 4 – Big Design Day – creating a brief and then design proposals for a site
Who are they for?
Built environment professionals and councillors with little prior urban design experience or training. Over 500 people have attended our foundation courses since 2006, from a wide range of disciplines: highway engineers, transport planners, public realm/streets managers and technicians, policy planners, development control planners, strategic project and policy officers, housing professionals, parks and green space managers, councillors, access officers, police crime prevention officers etc.
If you influence the built environment, and are not sure what urban design is about – one of these course may be for you.
Who will be delivering the training?
We have an exciting new team this year. Together they have a wealth of practical design experience and excellent teaching skills. We have picked the team to offer a range of expertise from park design to highway engineering, housing design to policy writing. Full details will be available before each event.
Cost
The 4 day course costs £600 plus VAT. Individual days will be charged at £175 plus VAT per full day
