CITY X-RAYS

Improving Livelihoods Through Understanding Place: 10x10x10

10 Events, across nations
10 Partners, as host organisations
10 Themes, tackling relevant local issues

'Improving Livelihoods through Understanding Place' is the overarching theme for a programme of 10 events on 10 themes, organised with 10 partners across the UK and Ireland. The series aims to answer the urgent need for an intensified exchange between practice, policy and academia, expanding the knowledge base underpinning ‘place-shaping’ – understood as a combination of organisational (behavioural) and spatial (physical) actions over time, spanning social infrastructure, masterplanning and economic development.

The sessions are curated by John Worthington, Academy Director of Learning, and Joost Beunderman, Academician, Demos Associate and researcher at architecture and research practice 00:/ [Zero Zero]

The project aim was to:

• Capitalise on the wide range of knowledge and experience of the Academicians to contribute to the national policy and practice debate and identify regionally relevant opportunities for place-shaping approaches in a changing context, engaging with local professional communities to understand, learn, and improve the quality of place and livelihoods.

• Nurture the Academy’s networks locally, regionally and nationally in learning from place.

• Reinforce existing and stimulate new initiatives for UniverCities programmes and City X-ray projects in the lead-up to the Academy’s 5th Anniversary programme

Get involved

Events are invite-only but if you would like to participate in, or host a session, please get in touch with Joost Beunderman at joost@research00.net or John Worthington at jw@academyofurbanism.org.uk