evolving design practices
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Socially- and environmentally-driven integrative briefing.
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Principles are propositions that serve as foundations for a system of behaviour. In guiding our behaviours,… Read more.
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The circular economy provides great opportunity for our planet. It presents the concept that in an… Read more.
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Integrative Briefing is a process of change, resulting in physical change, to build more space, and/or… Read more.
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authors, editors & Collaborators
authors
The authors and editors have worked and written collectively across countries, timezones and experience.
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Alastair Blyth
Architecture • Education • Research
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Hiral Patel
Learning Environments • Design • Research
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John Worthington
Architecture • Briefing • Urban Design
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FIONA YOUNG
Architecture • Design • Research

Collaborations
We invite practitioners, academics, designers and public agencies to collaborate and contribute their insights and experience. This shared experience is the foundation of the book Shaping Places: A framework for collective design, due to be published in 2027 by Routledge.
Acknowledgements
The support of funding partners has enabled Shaping Places to articulate a different design method informed by the collective experiences of many.