About
| I am an
urbanist, creative thinker and social researcher specialising in
strategic design and place shaping. I am interested in the dynamic between public space,
architecture, the individual and their communites. The ways that we
shape place and places shape us. I use a solution driven approach which is enabling and focuses on finding consensus to imagine shared futures, to tell future stories. My unique approach grounds big picture, strategic thinking in the fine detail of everyday experience. Projects take many forms and sit at the edges of design and planning practices. I am the lead author of ‘This is for the Majority’ design guidance for gender inclusivity, made with women and girls in London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the Winchester Vision 2020-2030 and ‘Future Stories’, a collaborative project with residents of BCP, to shape high street renewal. BIOG:Jennie Savage FRSA works with communities in the field of planning and urban design to ensure that local knowledge shapes design outcomes. She is an experienced designer who works in the fine detail of day-to-day lived experience to create solutions at scale, from hyper local design interventions to long term, big scale strategic thinking. Recent conferencesFuture Of London, 2024, co-production. Launch of LLDC Handbook, Creating places that work for women and girls, Arup, July 2024 ‘Cities for Citizens’, UN Planners, (2023) gender mainstreaming and co-design. ‘Loneliness, the next five years’, Campaign To End Loneliness, speaking about how the public realm impacts health and wellbeing. RTPI National Planning Conference and Planner Live North, about the value of storytelling in place shaping. Future of London- presenting on co-design as practice. Public urban design and planning documents (selected):As Public Realm Project Officer at London Borough of Tower Hamlets I wrote, ‘This Is For The Majority’ design guidance on gender inclusion in the borough. Lead author of Winchester Vision 2020-2030 where I set up citizens panels to collectively ‘vision’ Winchester for the next ten years (adopted 2020) I wrote ‘Future Stories’, a strategy for high street renewal which I co-designed with residents and place making professionals. Publications:Nutopia: A critical view of future cities, co-editied, Jennie Savage/ Malcolm Miles, Pub University Plymouth Press 2011 Concrete A Users Manual, Jennie Savage & James Tyson 2008 Depending On Time, Written Jennie Savage Pub Safle 2008 STAR: A Psychotopography Of Place, Jennie Savage, Pub CBAT 2006
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