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Preventative design: how to build healthy, sustainable communities
19/06/24 - 11:00 am
Online - Microsoft Teams
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How do you work outside your ‘red line’ to deliver liveable town centres?
17/04/24 - 12:00 pm
LinkedIn Live (online)
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Climate Action Towns: Gathering and resource launch
28/03/24 - 12:30 pm
The Engine Shed, Forthside Way Stirling FK8 1QZ
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Place Forum: Thinking big, thinking beyond
22/11/23 - 11:00 am
Online (Microsoft Teams)
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Place Conversations: Warm homes in a changing climate
28/09/23 - 12:30 pm
LinkedIn Live (online)
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Wrapping up the Architecture Fringe 2023 Summer Programme
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![A photograph of a storefront with the words The Stove Cafe written in white on black background. A number of rainbow colour flags are visible in the main window.](/sites/default/files/2023-06/PlaceDesignScotland-TheStove-2023-TheStove.jpeg)
Place Design Scotland launches webinar series
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![An architectural image of new build passivhause flats for Midlothian Council. There are car parked in front of the flats with trees and people walking around it](/sites/default/files/2023-04/MidlothianCouncil-PassivehauseFlats-2023-SmithScottMullan.png)
Place Forum: towards zero carbon places - making it happen
07/06/23 - 11:00 am
Online Microsoft Teams
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![A collage of 12 portraits from the 2023 Scottish Design Awards judging panel.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/SDA23-%20judges_grid.jpg)
Architecture and Design Scotland joins Scottish Design Awards 2023 jury
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Place Forum: the power of place in child poverty and cost of living crisis
01/03/23 - 11:00 am
Online via Teams
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Reflections and projections: our work in 2023
25/01/23 - 11:00 am
Online MS Teams
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![People sitting around a table during a LLTNP workshop in Strathard.](/sites/default/files/2022-07/Strathard-LLTNP-workshop-2020-ArcDesSco.jpg)
LAUDF16: Collaborative approaches to 20-minute neighbourhoods
23/11/22 - 11:00 am
Architecture and Design Scotland, 9 Bakehouse Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8DD
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![a dark grey plan of a city - Glasgow - with a number of buildings and structures coloured in bright colours and geometric shapes](/sites/default/files/2022-10/andy-macmillan-lecture-2-22-paul-stallan.jpg)
Andy MacMillan memorial lecture: The Glasgow affects - Paul Stallan
27/10/22 - 18:00 pm
Collective Architecture 13 Bath Street, 4th Floor Glasgow G2 1HY
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![A group of people sit on a canal-side in Venice in front of a yellow building with a large poster](/sites/default/files/2022-09/Scotland-Venice-2023-venue-Docks-Cantieri-Cuchini-web.jpg)
Can you help us spread the word about Scotland + Venice 2023?
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![A pencil illustration birds-eye view of a rural community along a river, showing green fields, and a cluster of buildings.](/sites/default/files/2022-06/designing-for-a-changing-climate-rural-community-no-background-2020-Richard-Carman_0.png)
Climate Week 2022: Designing for a changing climate
27/09/22 - 12:30 pm
Online
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Team news: Heather Chapple to leave Architecture and Design Scotland
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![Architecture and Design Scotland office entrance. The sliding gate has the logo in a blue background.](/sites/default/files/2022-06/architecture-design-scotland-office-entrance-2022-ArcDesSco.jpg)
Welcome to our two new board members
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Climate change and damp in older buildings
30/06/22 - 12:30 pm
Online
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Stone Repair and Restoration CPD
28/04/22 - 12:30 pm
Online
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![A architectural sketch for a proposed ice rink using an industrial site under railway arches.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/re-thinking-public-spaces-ice-rink-illustration-2021-masha-blokhina.jpg)
Small but local: rethinking public spaces in post-pandemic times
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![A young woman with her head laying on a copper disk and holding a card with the words 'I wish...'](/sites/default/files/2022-05/What-If-Scotland-wishes-girl-lying-down-2021-Neil%20Hanna.jpg)
Reflections on 2021
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Reflections from Learning Places Scotland conference
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![A view of planet earth from space with swirling clouds, the sea and the African continent.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Planet-earth-2021-nasa-unsplash.jpg)
COP26: Architecture and Design Scotland staff reflect on events
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Student Awards 2020: a look at this year’s winners
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![A photograph of a large sheet of paper with a man writing notes from a conference. The sheet is already covered in writing in multiple colours.](/sites/default/files/2022-09/education-buildings-scotland-conference-2019-ideas-on-paper-ArcDesSco.jpg)
Reflections from the Education Buildings Scotland conference
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![An exhibition of green and purple blocks with text on them with blurred outlines of school pupils exploring the exhibition.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/Housing-2040-present-voices-future-lives-rothesay-2019-craig-stewart.jpg)
Present Voices – Future Lives: Housing to 2040 exhibition
01/02/20 - 13:00 pm
The Lighthouse, Glasgow, G1 3NU
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![An illustration of the Place Standard wheel with bright colours and people around it. 'the Place Standard' is written in the centre.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/NHS-Place-Standard-conference-illustration-2019-ArcDesSco.jpg)
The Place Standard Tool will build a planning system to empower all citizens
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![A conference taking place in a large room where the delegates are sitting around round tables with white table cloths and coloured exhibition panels hang from the balcony above](/sites/default/files/2022-05/international-making-place-conference-place-standard-2019-Jason-Kimmings.jpg)
Making Place international conference takes place in Glasgow
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![A birds eye view of a large group of students in the reception area of the Lighthouse in Glasgow](/sites/default/files/2022-05/annual-student-awards-18-nominated-students-2018-michael-rea.jpg)
A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2018 results
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![Three elderly people walking across a street hand in hand.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/elderly-walking-across-bus-stop-Philippe-Leone-Unsplash.jpg)
Invitation to discuss caring places
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Co-producing quality places: when places change
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Co-producing quality places: passion and participation
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Co-producing quality places: Green City Hotel
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Co-producing quality places: learning for the Place Standard
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Co-producing quality places: the importance of stories
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Co-producing quality places: citizens, systems and outcomes
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Co-producing quality places: galvanising neighbourhoods
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![An illustration of the Place Standard wheel with bright colours and people around it. 'the Place Standard' is written in the centre.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/NHS-Place-Standard-conference-illustration-2019-ArcDesSco.jpg)
Learning about the Place Standard
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![Three people having a conversation about the Place Standard tool beside a building while holding paper.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/SCGNT-trial-of-place-standard-ArcDesSco.jpg)
The Place Standard: its origins and early examples
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![A photograph of the interior of an innovative market hall in Rotterdam which includes apartments looking into a covered market hall with large scale graphics of plants and flowers](/sites/default/files/2022-09/resource-MVRDV-Rotterdam-2014-mike-van-den-bos-unsplash.jpg)
Region making and the power of regions - Winy Maas
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![Two large outdoor chess sets placed on a pavement at the Scotland's Housing Expo with houses in the background.](/sites/default/files/2022-05/streetscape-scotland-housing-expo-street-chess-board-2016-Cadell2-Sust.jpg)
Architecture and the street: Reflections on Scotland’s Housing Expo 2010
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Visions of a better future: care home design
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