EP 023919 May 2025 · 50 min
Writing, Curating, Strategising: Lucy Bullivant’s Urbanist Toolkit
49:57Good urbanism needs more than drawings. It needs writing, research, public engagement, curation, politics, storytelling and the patience to connect people with place.
About this conversation
Stephen Drew speaks with Lucy Bullivant, author, strategist and curator, about masterplanning, exhibitions, retrofitting, publishing, Temple Bar Trust and how urban design conversations reach wider audiences.
The conversation covers:
How writing and research shape urban design thinking
What curating exhibitions can teach architecture and planning
Why retrofitting and sustainable urbanism need stronger public stories
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- · Stephen Drew
Stephen Drew
Hello everyone and welcome to the Architecture Social Show. So round London I go to some cool events and occasionally, oh, quite a lot. I meet these really cool people in the architecture scene who host events, who add to the conversation, and I wanna download their brains and their experience, get them on the podcast so that we can learn from them.
- · Stephen Drew
Stephen Drew
And that is why my guest is here.
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