Suffolk Design Festival 2026 - Workshop & Tour Sign Up - Attendees only
About this Event
This booking page is for confirmed Suffolk Design Festival attendees only.
As part of the Suffolk Design Festival, you’ll have the opportunity to attend one workshop or guided tour during the Festival.
Each workshop is delivered twice:
Session 1: 12:15–13:15
Session 2: 13:30–14:30
Please select one workshop at your preferred time.During the session you’re not attending a workshop, we encourage you to explore Bury St Edmunds and enjoy lunch from the town’s fantastic range of cafés, restaurants and independent food businesses. We’ll share a map and our recommended lunch spots ahead of the festival.
Workshop places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Workshop Line-up
Sense of Place - 9 Degrees of Awareness
Hosted by: Paulette McAllister, Joseph Hardy & Company
What makes a place truly memorable? This interactive workshop explores how landscape, materials, heritage, memory and people combine to shape local identity.
Through creative exercises and discussion, you’ll discover practical techniques for understanding and designing places that are distinctive, meaningful and deeply connected to their communities.
Sustainability - Shade Suffolk: Designing for a Hotter Future
Hosted by: Andy Love & Shreya Kapur, Shade the UK
How do we design places that remain comfortable, healthy and resilient as our climate changes? This practical workshop explores overheating, climate adaptation and the role of design in creating cooler streets, neighbourhoods and public spaces across Suffolk
Youth Engagement - Let’s Create – The YES Approach to Engaging Young People
Hosted by: Dr Bonnie Kwok and the Greater Cambridge YES Team
Discover how meaningful youth engagement can shape better places. Through a live design exercise and interactive activities, this workshop explores practical approaches to involving young people in planning, placemaking and neighbourhood design.
Designing Healthy Places - Using Local Data to Inform Better Design
Hosted by: Suffolk County Council Public Health
Discover how local health evidence can support better planning and placemaking. This workshop introduces new tools and resources that help planners and designers understand local needs and create healthier communities through evidence-led design.
Bury St Edmunds Heritage Tour - 1,000 Years in the Planning
Hosted by: Chris Land
Join an exclusive walking tour through one of England’s finest historic market towns. From the creation of the Abbey of St Edmund to modern regeneration, discover how over a thousand years of planning, design and change have shaped today’s Bury St Edmunds
The Apex & The Arc Tour - Behind the Scenes
Hosted by: Hopkins Architects
Go behind the scenes of two of Bury St Edmunds’ landmark developments. Explore the award-winning Apex performance venue and The Arc mixed-use development, learning how thoughtful architecture, regeneration and placemaking have transformed this part of the town.
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