As society asks more of the built environment, from climate adaptation and nature recovery to public health and social resilience, LDA Design invites designers, policymakers, developers and local communities to rethink what design is actually for.
Rather than walking through a showcase of finished projects, the session mixes provocation, a few practical examples and open discussion from the audience. The aim is to test big ideas against the realities of delivery, governance, policy and funding, and to ask whether the way places get planned is keeping up with what people now expect from them.
