GCC, GIA, RIAS: Visioning Glasgow – A Call to Action

Glasgow City Council, GIA and RIAS, are launching a platform to help shape the next iteration of Glasgow’s City Centre Strategy. The current strategy runs until 2030, but in just a few years Glasgow City Council will begin planning what comes next — and we want architects at the heart of that process.

New Narrative

Glasgow is already a leading European city for investment, connectivity, affordability, and cultural vibrancy. Now we need a next chapter narrative that:

• Signals confidence to investors and partners.

• Stimulates innovation and collaboration across the creative sector.

• Sets a benchmark for design quality and inclusion.

The Initiative

This initiative is about reinvigorating our thinking, building on Glasgow’s progressive place led policies, being excited by the opportunities, but also being honest about the challenges. Together, we can tackle barriers—cultural, policy, and financial—think beyond boundaries, value diversity, leverage innovation, and work in partnership to create a vibrant, inclusive, and investment-ready city centre. We need your help!

Key Speakers

Lucie Murray, Senior Cities Strategist, ING Media, London

Patricia Flemming, Director Patricia Flemming Gallery

Glasgow Call to Action

For Glasgow’s 2030 City Centre Strategy, we are inviting architects to share not only their design-led visions but also their ideas on how, together with Glasgow City Council, we can enable these visions to happen faster, better, and more fairly, while exploring how to position Glasgow as the most compelling inward investment location in the UK, overcome barriers such as policy, funding, and delivery challenges, and create improved city centre neighbourhoods that benefit everyone in our community.

Join the Conversation City Centre Futures Workshop

A highly interactive session focused on blue-sky thinking and practical pathways to delivery. Participants will explore “the art of the possible”, dialogue, early ideas, sketches, diagrams, short narratives

Share Your Ideas Online

Glasgow City Council will be launching a dedicated webpage to collect, curate, and showcase ideas from architects and citizens. Upload sketches, short narratives, visuals, and concept notes. Tag themes (accessibility, culture, housing, streets & public realm, climate resilience, investment & delivery). See what others are proposing and build partnerships. Your contributions will help shape how we position Glasgow forupcoming opportunities and major events and inform priorities for the next City Centre Strategy.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Glasgow Institute of Architects