Podcasts by Building Our Future

Andrew McMullan | Masterplanning for wellness&designing homes for the young from 2021-01-08T06:00

How do we design buildings and places with wellness in mind? Do we need to reconsider residential design to reflect changing life priorities?

Andrew Mcmullan is a British architect whose f...

Martha Weidmann | Transforming spaces into experiences with original art from 2020-12-11T08:00

Martha Weidmann is CEO and Co-Founder of Nine Dot Arts in Denver, Colorado. Nine Dot Arts is a consulting firm that not only curates inspirational ar...

Katie Kasabilis | Innovation (in the workplace) by design from 2020-09-04T05:00

nnovation; everyone wants it but how can we help create it through urban and building design?

Katie Kasabilis is an urbanist, architect and educator whose career has straddled the worlds o...

Pradyumna Pandit | Buildings With Minds of Their Own from 2020-03-13T06:00

What are “smart” buildings & how will they change the way we design, build and use our built environment?

Pradyumna Pandit is the Vice President UK & Ireland of Digital Energy, a a...

Nicholas Boys Smith | Building beautiful, building better from 2020-02-24T06:00

Nicholas Boys-Smith left a job in banking to set up Create Streets, a research institute that supports "community-led regeneration" and prio...

Dror Poleg | Rethinking Real Estate from 2019-11-29T06:00

How can we navigate technology’s impact on the world’s largest asset class?

Dror Poleg is the author of Rethinking Real Estate and the Co-...

Andrea Pizziconi | Real estate as a catalyst for social change from 2019-10-11T05:00

Can real estate development deliver social justice?

Andrea Pizziconi is a singer, songwriter and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the C...

Vanessa Hale | the changing shape of the real estate industry from 2019-09-27T06:00

Breaking down the barriers: the built environment in a post-digital world where sectors, silos and boundaries are increasingly blurred.

Vanessa Hale is Director of Research at BNP Paribas ...

Mike Bristow | Can P2P lending boost UK housing production? from 2019-09-06T07:00

Can P2P lending boost housing delivery numbers by financially enabling SME house-builders? What does the P2P market need to learn from recent history to ensure a fair & transparent market of...

Indy Johar | The Great Rotation and the Built Environment from 2019-08-16T05:00

What is the great rotation and how will it affect the built environment in the years to come?

Indy Johar is an architect, co-founder of Project 00 &...

Ben Gleisner | How to shape the built environment by better understanding socialðical preferences from 2019-07-26T06:00

Can technology help the built environment better reflect people’s changing social and ethical consumption choices?

Ben is an economist, environmentalist and social entrepreneur. He has fou...

Charlie Wade | UK Managing Director, VTS from 2019-06-21T07:00

Charlie Wade is UK Managing director of PropTech giant, VTS. In their own words, VTS is the commercial real estate industry’s leading leasing and asset management platform. Landlords use VTS to ...

Mark Pilkington | Retail Therapy;Why the retail industry is broken - and what can be done to fix it from 2019-06-07T06:00

Is there really a Retail Apocalypse? Why is the retail industry in the state its in and how can property owners help to rebuild towards a brighter retail future? 

Mark Pilkington is author...

Savannah de Savary | Founder&CEO, Built-ID from 2019-05-24T09:00

Can technology nurture greater community engagement in the shape of develop projects and will this help “democratise” real estate? 

My guest today is Savannah de Savary, founder and CEO of...

Fiona Fletcher-Smith | Group Director of Development&Sales, L&Q from 2019-05-10T12:00

Building communities at the scale needed to meet the challenges of the UK’s housing shortage.

In 2018, Fiona Fletcher-Smith left City Hall (where she was Executive Director of Development,...

Dr Lee Bofkin | Co-founder&CEO, Global Street Art from 2019-04-26T10:00

One man’s mission to live in painted cities; how can street art transform both buildings and communities?

Holding a PhD in Evolutionary Mathematics from Cambridge, Lee was a former break-d...

Ros Pomeroy | Co-founder, Brainy Birdz from 2019-01-20T00:00

Do we give enough thought to the impact that the design and layout of our workplaces has on our individual & collective productivity & well-being? I delve into the world of workspace sci...

Antony Slumbers | Founder, AntonySlumbers.com from 2019-01-20T00:00

What is Artificial Intelligence and how is about to reshape our approach to work? Will this mean that SpaceAsaService becomes the new normal for the build environment?

 Antony is a renowne...

Justin Shee | Founder&CEO, The Kohab from 2018-11-20T10:00

Can we better serve our ageing population through a new model of inter-generational co-living?

Justin Shee is the founder of The Kohab; a new inter-...

Gemma John | Founder&Director, Human City from 2018-10-12T00:00

Can the application of traditional social sciences to big data help better tailor the future of the built environment to societal needs?

Gemma John is an anthropologist, helping to influen...

Gabrielle McMillan | CEO, Equiem from 2018-10-02T00:00

Can technology bridge the service gap between buildings with amenity & space-as-a-service?

Gabrielle McMillan is the founding CEO of Equi...

Lara Marrero | Studio Director&Retail Practice Leader, Gensler from 2018-09-27T00:00

Are brand engagement & media overtaking transactions as the primary purpose of bricks-and-mortar retail? Where else in the build environment is brand influencing building design and utility?...

Andrea Carpenter | Author&Founder, Women Talk Real Estate from 2018-08-30T00:00

Does the history of the European Real Estate market hold any clues for the direction of the future?

My guest today is Andrea Carpenter, a communications consultant in the property indust...

Susan Freeman | Partner, Mishcon de Reya from 2018-08-21T00:00

How can collaboration improve the real estate industry? The view from one of the UK property sector's great generalists on the state of the market and the way ahead...

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Matt Partridge | Founder&CEO, Infabode from 2018-08-06T00:00

News content & analysis is available in ever-growing quantities. While this can offer huge advantages, it poses several problems; how can you ensure you're accessing the most relevant c...

Mark Robinson | Owner, Ellandi from 2018-07-02T00:00

As e-commerce continues to disrupt bricks-and-mortar retail, the story of the retail apocalypse or death of the high street has been mainstream news and this isn’t a phenomenon Sound Diplomacy, bridging the gap between music and the world of policy and urban planning.

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Nathan Koren | Founder&CEO, Podaris from 2018-06-06T00:00

Nathan is an architect, transport planner, software engineer and entrepreneur. Having worked for many years as an architect specialising in sustainable transit-oriented developments, Nathan beca...

Vanessa Butz | CEO&Founder, District from 2018-05-29T00:00

Vanessa Butz wrote her masters thesis on "Understanding the DNA of Strong Entrepreneurial Hubs” and took her theory into practice by helping to build large technology and co-working campuse...

Andrew Waugh | Founder, Waugh Thistleton Architects from 2018-05-01T00:00

Andrew Waugh is a founder of Waugh Thistleton Architects and a pioneer of design in the field of timber buildings, using cross-laminated timber James Dearsley Listen

Will Blakey | CEO, MyOfficeMove.co.uk from 2018-04-19T00:00

Will Blakey is CEO of MOM (MyOfficeMove.co.uk), the online marketplace for moving office.

Will is also an investor in start-ups, such ...

Nick Fulford | Founder, nHouse from 2018-04-13T00:00

Nick Fulford has a background of over 20 years in sales & marketing. In 2017 he quit to set up the a modular housing concept, nHouse, together with award-winning architect, Richard Hywel Eva...

Mark Farmer | CEO, CAST Consulting from 2018-04-06T00:00

Mark Farmer is Founding Director & CEO of Cast and a expert in the delivery of complex residential-led projects & m...

Chris Choa | Chairman, ULI UK&Director, AECOM from 2018-03-22T00:00

Chris Choa is an urban architect and cities expert who thinks a big scale.

Chris is Director of Cities at AECOM. He speaks frequently about urban performance and works wit...

Chris Choa | Chairman, ULI UK&Director, AECOM from 2018-03-22T00:00

Chris Choa is an urban architect and cities expert who thinks a big scale.

Chris is Director of Cities at AECOM. He speaks frequently about urban performance and works wit...

Chris Choa | Chairman, ULI UK&Director, AECOM from 2018-03-22T00:00

Chris Choa is an urban architect and cities expert who thinks a big scale.

Chris is Director of Cities at AECOM. He speaks frequently about urban performance and works wit...