FUTURE CITIES FORUM

The Chief Executive of the Southbank Centre, Elaine Bedell, will be speaking at Future Cities Forum's cultural regeneration event on 8th April at Goldsmiths' Hall, London. Elaine was appointed in 2017 and is the first woman Chief Executive of Europe's largest arts centre in its 66 year history. Her appointment alongside Susan Gilchrist as Chair, means that the Southbank Centre is unique among the UK's leading cultural institutions in having an all female leadership team. Sout

London is famous for its concert halls but how does the capital compete with music venues around the world in terms of drawing audiences? Defining what makes for high quality environments for the performing arts, is something that former conductor Tateo Nakajima, Principal, Arts, Culture and Entertainment at the consulting firm Arup, is an expert in and he will be speaking at our cultural regeneration forum in the City of London on 8th April. Tateo is an acoustics/theatre des

Picture credit: Goldsmiths' Company assay stamp At our cultural regeneration event on 8th April, Karine Lepeuple, Deputy Director of the Goldsmiths Centre will be speaking about the workshops and artists' studios, vocational and training opportunities, including the Goldsmiths' Company's Apprenticeship Scheme, that are being taken up by aspiring and established jewellers, silversmiths and allied craftspeople. The short availability of artists' studios has been discussed at ou

Our forum this week will look at the importance of a sustainable greening strategy for London which encourages an environment where people want to live and work and will do so for decades to come. This month, the Mayor of London announced the next step towards making London the world's first National Park City, with plans for a week-long festival in July, with the aim to get people more in tune with nature, improving health, wellbeing and social cohesion. The Mayor has also u

Our forum on 'Connected cities - planning and place-making' this week at Deloitte's offices in London, begins with TfL talking about the mobility bus trial it is involved with in Sutton and the plans to provide three more tube stations linking Elephant and Castle to Lewisham. Improving integrated transport systems and mobility will be a major theme of our June City Hall London forum with Stephen Dance, Director of Delivery from the Infrastructure Projects Authority. Deloitte

Connected cities – planning and place-making 26th March 2019 Deloitte, 2, New Street Square, London EC4A 3BZ 8.30 am to 11 am Running order for 26th March forum 8.30 Coffee and networking 9.00 Presentation: Alex Williams, Head of Planning, Transport for London. 9.15 Panel discussion: planning city development, housing developments and density around transport hubs and railway line extensions. Alex Williams, Head of Planning, Transport for London Gavin Miller, Director, MICA A

We are delighted to welcome Dr Susan Parham from the University of Hertfordshire who will be speaking at our forum next week in the City of London on planning housing for the third age. Dr Parham works as the University's Head of Urbanism and Planning at the School of Life and Medical Sciences (LMS) in the Geography, Environment and Agriculture (GEA) group. In December 2018 Susan was appointed as the Director of the new University of Hertfordshire Urbanism Unit (UHUU). Susan

London is always in competition internationally but also within the UK to attract visitors and tourists to the capital and so we are very much looking forward to Trevor Morriss, Principal at SPPARC speaking at our Future Cities Forum at The Goldsmiths' Hall, City of London, about the £1 billion project to redevelop the famous and historic exhibition halls - Olympia London - into a world leading cultural hub. Award winning architecture practices SPPARC and Heatherwick Studio a

We are delighted that the Vice-Chancellor of the Royal College of Art, Dr Paul Thompson will be speaking at our 'Art and Cities' forum in March. Dr Thompson is leading the development of a significant investment programme that will secure the RCA's future academic vision as well as a new state of the art building at Battersea South, delivering new studios, workshops and incubator units for business innovation. Dr Thompson was appointed to his position at the RCA in 2009. Prio

Numbers of domestic visitors to London are falling according to the Mayor of London who has rallied business organisations to promote the capital across the UK. Tourism supports around 700,000 jobs in the capital, but while London remains one of the most visited cities in the world with 32 million tourists in 2017 generating almost £26 billion for the economy, only 12.2 million of visitors cam from England, Scotland and Wales. Day visits to London reduced by 3% during 2017 an