I am a
designer specialising in co-producing projects with individuals and
communities across urban design, regeneration and planning. My work
centres on developing design frameworks, vision documents, and spatial
and strategic plans shaped collaboratively with the people they most
affect. I use creative, participatory tools to build common ground and
help groups reach shared understanding and consensus.
I work within place-shaping teams and am currently collaborating with Future of London and Archio to co-design retrofit strategies for Westminster City Council. I am also working with Queen Mary University of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the design of inclusive green spaces.
Previous work includes This Is For The Majority – an evidence base and design guide for inclusion in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets – and my role as lead author for the Winchester Vision 2020–2030. I also developed Future Stories,
a highly participative placemaking and spatial design strategy that
explored new ways to reimagine town centres with people, ecology and
culture at the forefront.
I bring experience across public, academic and private sectors, and I am a Public Practice alum and RTPI Woman of Influence 2023 & 2025 and Industry Patron on the Landscape Architecture MA at AUB.
Teaching:
Chelsea College of Art, UAL 2010-2020, Ba Fine Art and Graduate Diploma, teaching studio practice and contextual theory.
Arts University Bournemouth 2013-2025 Visiting tutor on M.Arch & Landscape Architecture.
BIOG:
Jennie Savage is an expert in engaging individuals and communities, co-producing design frameworks, vision documents, spatial and strategic plans in consultation with those who will be affected. She is sensitive to everyone's views, holding space for multiple perspectives and finding common ground from which to design workable solutions.
Jennie works as part of places shaping teams and leads engagement and research projects including ‘This Is For The Majority’, an evidence base & design guidance for gender inclusion in London Borough Tower Hamlets and 'Future Stories’, a highly consultative placemaking and spatial design strategy, which showed how to reimagine our town centres, putting people and culture at their heart. Jennie is a public practice alum and RTPI Woman Of Influence.
Recent conferences
‘Inclusive cities shaped by all’ Equlibium Network July 2025
‘Inclusive Green Spaces’ Future of London & Queen Mary University of London, June 2025
Empowering spaces: Planning for inclusive built environments, RTPI East, Cambridge University. March 2025.
Co-production round table, Arup / Future of London Feb 2024.
Co-production panel. Future Of London, Excel centre, 2024,
‘Our cities, Our streets’ Panel and break out workshops gender and public space, LSE, Oct 24
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
Awards & membership
RTPI Woman of Influence 2023 & 2025
Member of RTPI and Fellow of the Royal Sociaty Arts
Public Practice Alumn
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