All young people articles
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OpinionBreak down the silos – young people won’t see the range of careers our sector offers unless we show them
If we want young people to join our industry, we must show them an industry worth joining, says Ashley Wheaton, vice chancellor at the University of the Built Environment
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NewsCarmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Wider redevelopment includes a canteen and a sculpture garden designed by Kim Wilkie
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FeaturesFinding new ways to open up the city … Meet the woman behind London’s Open House festival
Mary Richardson caught up with Manijeh Verghese, the recently appointed chief executive of Open City, for a preview of some of the buildings in this year’s Open House festival
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NewsReport calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children
The Raising the Nation Play Commission recommends legislation to embed child-friendly design and planning principles across schools, homes and public spaces in England
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OpinionSeventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy
Eugene Minogue, Executive Director of Play England Just over seventeen years ago, on 2 April 2008, the last Labour government launched England’s first, and only, National Play Strategy. Ed Balls and Andy Burnham, both secretaries of state at the time, quite literally swung into action at an ...
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OpinionThe quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children
As universities widen participation, Rosie Parnell explores how early engagement is opening new pathways into the built environment professions
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Opinion2,000 young people, one mission: Rethinking access to architecture at the Festival of the Future
Mary Richardson reflects on how last weekend’s Festival of the Future brought over 2,000 young people to RIBA’s 66 Portland Place, aiming to break down barriers to built environment careers
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OpinionThe built environment belongs to everyone – so why are young voices so often excluded?
As the Festival of the Future takes place at Portland Place, Neil Onions challenges the industry to break down barriers and give young people a meaningful voice in architecture and urban design
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from improving diversity?
With International Women’s Day approaching, Anna Beckett asks how early gender stereotypes shape career choices – and what the construction industry can do about it
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NewsYouth-designed pavilion unveiled in Camden’s HS2 meanwhile garden
The six-metre-tall pavilion and performance space, ‘Reflect’, was co-designed by young people in collaboration with social enterprise MATT+FIONA and Fitzrovia Youth in Action
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OpinionPutting children and young people at the heart of housing design
Dinah Bornat explores how housing design can better meet the needs of younger generations
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FeaturesClosing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education
Alison Watson MBE is a woman on a mission to transform education in the built environment
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Features‘Because the spaces work for children, they work for everyone’ – how the Whittington estate fosters a community for all ages
Mary Richardson talks to two architects who have made a film about the child-friendly estate where they live, to find out what’s so special about its design
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OpinionCreating places and spaces where children and young people thrive
Gemma Hyde explains how the TCPA and its partners in the built environment sector have been working to reclaim space for children and young people
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FeaturesA crisis hiding in plain sight: how the UK’s built environment is failing children and young people
While housing supply and affordability dominate public debate, the lack of safe, accessible spaces for children and adolescents is a critical yet overlooked issue. Nora Redmond takes a closer look at why the built environment has left young people so underserved
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FeaturesHow Essex teenagers are shaping their community with a little help from MATT+FIONA
Mary Richardson went to meet a group of young people in Colchester whose ‘inspirational’ input is helping shape the design of a new garden village. They spoke about the innovative ways they are being empowered to contribute to this new community with support from young peoples’ placemaking champions MATT+FIONA.
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NewsV&A displays children’s visions of a London cityscape adapted to climate change
Works by hundreds of 9-10-year-olds will be shown as part of the Climate Change All Change programme
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FeaturesBoomers to Zoomers: Designing for the Generations
As BD launches its new campaign, Ben Flatman sets out the challenges and themes that it will explore
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NewsWe are neglecting the needs of young people, planning experts tell MPs
Only 6% of housing developments involve architects, parliamentary inquiry into young people and the built environment is told
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OpinionThe inquiry into young people and the built environment is our chance to deliver for future generations
Built environment professionals need to seize this opportunity to influence the public debate, writes Dinah Bornat