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
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
Collaborative Learning Environments

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.