How to Build a City
About this Event
A moveable city in the Arctic Circle. Tower blocks tackling loneliness in Tokyo. Helsinki's sprawling underground metropolis. And Ukraine's bomb-resistant bedrooms. These places, and many more, are among the strange and dazzling solutions responding to our uncertain world. In her new narrative non-fiction book, Gabriella Bennett takes readers on a globe-trotting journey to learn how we are reimagining home to embrace the challenges of contemporary living.
From political instability to wildfires, flooding and an increased pressure on materials and space, the built environment is under threat like never before. It must change - and it is. We'll travel to the frontier cities of this urban revolution and discover how people are transforming their communities in surprising ways.
Celebrating human ingenuity and resilience, How to Build a City is a remarkable investigation into where we'll live and why it matters. Join her at the Collective Architecture to hear how the book came to be and the hope and resilience she found along the way. Chaired by Jude Barber with canapes and wine included.
Bio: Gabriella Bennett is a journalist specialising in housing, architecture, travel and design. She writes a weekly column for The Times and her broadcasting credits include This Morning, Countryfile and Debate Night. She is a past recipient of Mairi Hedderwick Travel Writing award from Scotland's creative writing centre Moniack Mhor. She has also been named Travel Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards and Regional Journalist of the Year at the UK Property Press Awards for her investigations into the cladding crisis. She lives in Perthshire.
Event Programme
18.00 Doors open with refreshments
18.30 – 19.15 Home to Build a City Launch with Gabriella Bennett.
Chair: Jude Barber
19.15 – Drinks & Conversation
20.30 – Event closes
Where is it happening?
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