Masterclass: Context-sensitive design

How to promote and foster design that responds successfully to its natural and built environment context, particularly when that context is sensitive and/or historic.

This event will explore how good design can be nurtured within a sensitive context, be it a historic, rural, or a peri-urban place. Sensitive and responsive design is rooted in an appreciation of the both the established and historic context and environment, so we will seek to build an understanding of what sort of studies, analysis and research should underpin design, and how this process is best captured in the development management process. This will include a workshop exercise reviewing a set of submitted

Delivered by:

Sogand Babol, Design Advisor, Design South East

Speakers and contributors:

Stephen Proctor, Founding Director, Proctor & Matthews Architects

Neil Deely, Metropolitan Workshop

Garry Hall, Design South East

Time: 09:00 - 13:30

Date: Thursday 4th April

Location: East of England Co-op Education Centre, 11 Fore St, Ipswich IP4 1JW

Please note: these events are primarily open to Suffolk local authority staff, elected members & Suffolk Design Group stakeholders only, until further notice. If places become available we may be able to offer them to non-local authority staff, such as those within the private sector. Please check back here for further details.