Urban design masterclasses
You can register for any of the masterclasses at www.urbanevents.org.uk or by e-mailing training@urbandesignlondon.com.
What are they?
Individual, three hour sessions on key design issues. The classes will explore cutting edge thinking and best practice on issues which affect the delivery of good design. The masterclass subjects reflect what practitioners consider are today’s most important and difficult design issues.
Each session will start with two presentations by experts in the masterclass subject. This will be followed by a debate chaired by a facilitator. Participants will then break into small groups to further consider the subject around examples and cases they can bring with them.
Who are they for?
Masterclasses are designed for people who have an understanding of urban design and who need to make complex decisions on key issues regarding the design of schemes.
Who will deliver them?
All masterclass speakers will be known experts in the relevant subjects. The sessions will be facilitated by professional trainers.
Times and Venues
Unless indicated otherwise, Masterclasses take place in the morning with registration from 9.30 for a 10.00 start. They will finish at 1.00pm.
The first 3 Masterclasses (M1-3) will be held at:
Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8AA. Other venues to be confirmed at a later date.
Cost
A number of free places are available for Urban Design London subscribers.
additional places will be available at £175 plus VAT per person per class.
‘I liked interacting with experts from other fields. I learnt that for my future projects its good to include all professionals at an earlier stage.’
Missed a masterclass? To watch many of the excellent speakers at past classes go to our video training page.
The Masterclass sessions:
M1: London’s View Management Framework
Wednesday 11 June 2008
London has one of the most sophisticated and complex view management policies in the country. This masterclass will explain the GLA’s policy and look at how you can best use it in practice.
M2: Understanding tall buildings?
Friday 8 July 2008
Love them or hate them, almost all parts of London are now seeing tall building applications. Do you know how to assess these proposals? Are you clear about what the relevant policies mean? Can you ensure quality when it comes to discharging conditions? This masterclass will look at best practice in dealing with tall development. Click Here to access the presentation related to this masterclass.
M3: The role of trees in our city
Tuesday 30 September 2008
This masterclass will be delivered in partnership with Design for London. It will look at the important role trees play in our city and will show you how tell if you are getting the right trees in the right places. The session will also look at issues of insurance claims and how to trench over roots to prevent damage to buildings.
M4: The density debate
October 2008
Building densities have risen significantly over the last few years – but are we creating places which will stand the test of time? This session will look at how we measure and consider density and how this relates to current urban design thinking.
M5: Street design and place-making
November 2008
This session will be based on training material developed by CABE to help people understand the Manual for Streets. It will explain why streets matter, how to influence change and best ways to bring professionals and others together to create better streets.
M6: Writing design policies for your LDF
December 2008
Most London Boroughs are planning to adopt their Core Strategies in 2010/11 and many are currently working on other parts of their LDFs too. But where should design policies sit? Can you just rely on national and regional policies? This session will look at the options and opportunities for new style design policies.
M7: What is shared space?
January 2009
Do you know the difference between shared space and shared surfaces? How can eye contact between drivers and pedestrians work if one person is blind? This session will examine how the concept of blurring traditional definitions between carriageway, pavement, square and car-park can influence how places work.
M8: Urban design and Historic Conservation
February 2009
There are close links between the general design agenda and the way we manage our historic environment. But at times there may seem to be contradictions too. This session will examine how good urban design and historic conservation can work together to create and maintain better places.
M9: Design for health, hospitals and beyond
March 2009
Planning in this county has its routes in public health objectives. But what part can design play today? This session will look at how we design our hospitals, where we put our doctors’ surgeries, and how the quality of our environment influences our general health and wellbeing.
M10: Designing for Late Night Use
March 2009
Twenty four hour licensing and a smoking ban have changed how our streets and city centers are used. This session will explore how we can design for late-night uses; and how we need to design our environment to influence late-night behavior; can urban design contribute to a continental cafe-culture?
Masterclass facilitators and In House Session teachers
Bill Eriksson Principal Lecturer in Urban Design at University of Westminster
Bill is a qualified architect and urban designer, teaching urban design at the University for over a decade and combining this teaching with research management, the development of E-learning and knowledge transfer activities. Bill has also taken the lead on the design, preparation and delivery of the CABE Urban Design Summer School alongside Sebastian Loew.
Professor Richard Hayward Head of School of Architecture and Construction at the University of Greenwich
Richard is an architect and urban designer. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching architecture and urban design at all levels. His practice has been primarily in the areas of urban design and housing and he has combined teaching, practice and research for most of his career. His publications include co-authorship of the book – Architecture, An Invitation (Blackwell, 1990), co-editorship of the Making Better Places: Urban Design Now (Butterworth Architecture, 1993).
Dr Sebastian Loew Part time lecturer in Urban Design at University of Westminster
Sebastian is an architect and town planner, he worked in local government before teaching Town Planning at South Bank University. He has been a member of the Urban Design Group since 1997 and co-edited the group’s journal. He was chair of the Education Panel of the Urban Design Alliance and represented UDAL on the Ministerial Urban Design Skills Group which was chaired by CABE.
Tony Lloyd-Jones Principal Lecturer in Urban Design at University of Westminster
Tony has more than thirty years’ professional experience in architecture, urban design and planning in the UK and internationally, spanning practice and government policy, teaching, research and knowledge transfer. He has particular expertise in sustainable urban design, housing and working with community participation. He was Vice Chair of Urban Design Group (UDG) and Chair of the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) Education Working Group from 1997 to 1999.
Marion Roberts Professor of Urban Design at University of Westminster
Marion is Professor of Urban Design at the University of Westminster. Her most recent research projects have covered mixed-use streets, the night-time economy and mixed income housing. Marion teaches three modules in Urban Design and Town Planning. She has been a tutor at CABE’s Urban Design Summer School and on an in-house training course on streetscape design for the London Borough of Southwark.
David Seex Senior Lecturer in Urban design at University of Westminster
David has qualifications in Planning, Transport and Architecture and worked as an urban designer for twelve years, teaching Urban Design at the University of Westminster. He is currently course leader for the Postgraduate Certificate in Urban Design for both of its delivery modes at the University and in-house at Kent Planning Offices.
Louise Thomas Director of the Urban Renaissance Institute at the University of Greenwich
Louise is an experienced Urban Designer with wide-ranging consultancy experience for both public and private sector clients. Louise was Technical Director for Masterplanning and Urban Design at Scott Wilson and Associate Urban Designer at David Lock Associates and has lectured on Urban Design for 10 years. Louise is an editor of the Urban Design Group’s quarterly journal, Urban Design.
