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The Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre for refugees in Uganda, designed by Hassell and Localworks in collaboration with creative platform to.org is a beacon of creativity and unity in Africa’s largest refugee settlement. A pioneering new model of creative infrastructure, the centre has been thriving since its inauguration in early December 2023, swiftly becoming a hub where people gather to create together, share music and dance traditions and find community. The centre's impact extends beyond its initial focus, uniting refugee and non-refugee communities through shared cultural expression. By nurturing local talent and promoting cross-cultural dialogue, Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre helps pave the way for a more inclusive and resilient future. “This performing arts centre is not just a building; it's a testament to the resilience and creativity of displaced communities,” says Mawa Zacharia, a refugee and co-founder of SINA LOKETA. “It provides us with a space to reclaim our narratives, celebrate our culture, heal from our trauma and connect with one another.”   🔗 Find out more about the Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre: https://lnkd.in/g2aFMJ3C   ▶ Video courtesy of to.org #BidiBidiPerformingArtsCentre #CommunitySpirit #RefugeeSupport #ArtisticResilience #Uganda #BidiBidi

In the new world of work, are tech companies still at the forefront of workplace design? Join our webinar to learn how leaders at Netflix, Hassell and McKinsey & Company are rethinking workplaces. Our all-star panel features Annie Cosgrove, Director Analytics and Insights Density, Daniel Davis, Head of Research Hassell, José Vicente Latorre, Senior Manager Global Space & Occupancy Strategy Netflix and Phil Kirschner, Senior Expert and Associate Partner McKinsey & Company.   🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/g7eT-T3s #FutureOfWork #WorkplaceDesign #Innovation #TechLeadership #WorkplaceTrends #Webinar #Netflix #Hassell #McKinsey #RethinkWorkspaces

Introducing 'Imagining Tomorrow' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: a collective exhibition showcasing school students' innovative ideas on sustainable design. Supported by design professionals, including Hassell, hundreds of primary school pupils across England are envisioning how buildings, landscapes, and neighbourhoods can evolve to tackle challenges like rising sea levels, freezing temperatures and extreme heat. Open now until January 2025, Imagining Tomorrow presents the results of this collaboration, produced by Climate Change All Change (CCAC), a London charity integrating climate literacy into primary education. Highlights include an exotic urban landscape imagining a future London adapted to massive flooding. Xavier De Kestelier, a Head of Design at Hassell and leader of our design technology and innovation team spearheaded this initiative in 2022 at Coppermill Primary School in Walthamstow, London. "The remarkable outcome of this programme was the children's ability to grasp complex architectural and regenerative design concepts, such as embodied and operational carbon," says Xavier. "Their understanding led to incredibly creative designs, with drawings so engaging that even our 3D visualisation skills found them hard to match."   'Imagining Tomorrow' is at John Lyon's Gallery in V&A South Kensington's Learning Centre until January 2025. 🔗 Discover more about our CCAC initiative: https://lnkd.in/gbfmCPeb #ImaginingTomorrow #Sustainability #ClimateAction #VAExhibit #VAMuseum

Ngurra appears in many different Aboriginal languages around the eastern parts of Australia and is a word for ‘home’, ‘camp’, ‘a place of belonging’, ‘a place of inclusion’. Djinjama, in collaboration with COLA Studio, Hassell and Edition Office, has won a design competition for Australia's most significant new cultural landmark, Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct in Canberra. Home to the National Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Centre, and the National Resting Place the design for the Precinct is specific to Country that is the ancestral land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, who have lived for thousands of years amid a landscape of limestone plains, mountains, swamps and streams. 🔗 Explore more of the Country-led design and process here: https://lnkd.in/gt6t_kC2 🖼 Illustration by COLA Studio #Ngurra #FirstNations #FirstNationsDesign #CulturalPrecinct #CountryLedDesign #Architecture Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

When given a choice, employees come into the office to meet people. In our latest research report, The State of Tech Industry Workplaces, produced in collaboration with workplace analytics leader Density, we found that employees who get to choose where they work spend almost double their amount of time in meeting rooms when they’re in the office compared to those who have a three day per week policy. Policies influence more than just how much time people spend in an office — they also influence the activities they do there. Ideally, workplace policies and design should be in harmony. However, as our study shows, workplaces are still struggling to catch up to the reimagining of where and how work gets done.   🔗 Discover our key findings and download the report here: https://lnkd.in/g2n6ZCrA #StateOfTechIndustry #WorkplaceResearch #TechWorkplaces #WorkplaceInnovation #ReturnToWork #OfficeUse #WorkspaceDesign #TechIndustryInsights #Hassell #DensityAnalytics Daniel Davis Annie Cosgrove

Our master plan for a new city centre in Sohar, Oman, is designed to support widespread future economic and population growth and embrace the region’s ongoing transformation.   “To increase micro-mobility in residential areas, Hassell has applied the ‘five-minute city’ principle to establish and grow a network of connected communities anchored around amenity clusters, each within a five-minute walk of where residents live and work,” says ASHLEY MUNDAY, Hassell Principal and Head of Design.   In addition to 20,000 new homes and a network of nature corridors, the proposed city will include 520,000 sqm of office space, schools, mosques, hospitals, and numerous arts and education opportunities, including a new opera house, museums and a library.   The master plan supports flourishing neighbourhoods and improves convenience for local businesses, eliminating the need to drive shorter journeys, even in extreme temperatures.   A car-free network of ‘nature corridors’ running from north to south and east to west will transform the walkability of the city centre, creating super-highways that prioritise pedestrians and cyclists. 🔗 Learn more about our Sohar master plan: https://lnkd.in/e8Q5bzw4 🖼 Images by Studio Lux #UrbanDesign #Architecture #LandscapeArchitecture #Sohar #Oman #MasterPlan #CityShaping

This NAIDOC week and every week, Hassell is committed to actively amplifying the voices of First Nations Peoples. ‘Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud’ is this year’s theme, and no project embodies NAIDOC’s mission to reclaim narratives and celebrate Indigenous identity more than the winning design concept for Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct, produced by Djinjama with COLA Studio, Hassell and Edition Office in collaboration. The design concept for this long overdue cultural landmark could not have been conceived without the leadership and significant personal and cultural investment from one of our First Nations partners, Dr Danièle Hromek of Djinjama. As Australia’s first Indigenous person to achieve a PhD in built environment and spatial disciplines, we're humbled to be guided by Danièle and the Djinjama Collective on this project and many others, as part of our shared mission to acknowledge, preserve and share First Nations knowledge and culture through design. 🔗 Explore more of the important cultural design and research projects by Djinjama here: https://djinjama.com/ 🔗 Read more about our winning design for Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct:  https://lnkd.in/gt6t_kC2 🖼 Pictured: Winning concept design of The National Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Centre, Canberra, Australia. Image by WAX. #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2024 #IndigenousPride #KeepTheFireBurning #BlakLoudProud

Our research report, Vibrant and Viable Campus: designing a culture-led recovery, highlights the significant opportunities for universities to future-proof assets and build resilience — economic, social, cultural, and environmental — into the campus master planning process. According to Hassell Principal and author of the report Adam Davies, bringing students and teaching staff back together and reviving campus culture should be a priority for learning institutions. “We must refocus our attention on the campus’s role in attracting and retaining talent,” says Davies. “The conversation must include the campus experience and the role that teaching and learning, research facilities and student infrastructure play in getting people back on campus more often and keeping them there longer.” 🔗 Download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gVvjihpV 🔗 Read Adam's interview with Campus Review: https://lnkd.in/gynPFX-B 📷 Photography: UQ Student Central by Scott Burrows #CampusDesign #EducationAndScience #CampusLife #PlacesPeopleLove 

We’ve won an international design competition for four pivotal service buildings for the Shanghai Chongming Metro Line. The project aims to transform traditional infrastructure by focusing on ecological restoration and regenerative design in a location key to Shanghai’s future sustainable development. "We don’t just see this as an infrastructure project, these are city-shaping opportunities,” says Zoey Chen, Project Leader and Senior Associate at our Shanghai studio. “High-quality development demands innovative and considered design solutions with regenerative place-making at the heart of the process." “Our design proposal carefully weaves together the characteristics of the site and needs of future users, transforming traditional infrastructure into buildings and places that can be loved and enjoyed by people for years to come." 🔗 Find out more about our design for the Chongming Metro Line: https://lnkd.in/gazzVKky #UrbanTransport #RegenerativeDesign #GreenInfrastructure #Architecture #SiteSpecificDesign #ChongmingIsland #SustainableDevelopment

John O'Mara, Principal and Practice Leader of Architecture in our UK studio has been appointed an Expert Assessor for the Reimagine London Ideas Competition, produced by New London Architecture (NLA), the independent member-supported organisation for London’s built environment community. John is committed to nurturing next generation practitioners through his involvement as a guest lecturer, tutor, mentor and critic for several design associations. He is also a London Legacy Development Corporation Design Review panel member. The Reimagine London initiative seeks new ideas to shape the future of the capital as a resilient and 24-hour city. John will be joined by a group of highly esteemed assessors from NLA’s extensive network to select a shortlist from the competition entries, which will go on public display at a Reimagine London exhibition opening at The London Centre in September. 🔗 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/etadjv_k #ReimagineLondon #NLA #NewLondonArchitecture