I am a designer with specific expertise in
engaging individuals and communities in urban placemaking. This includes
co-producing design frameworks, vision documents, spatial and strategic
plans in consultation with those who will be affected. My creative
approach to collaborative design is sensitive to everyone's views, holds
space for multiple perspectives and establishing common ground from
which to design workable solutions.
I
work as part of places shaping teams and I am currently collaborating
with Future of London and Archio to co-design retrofit strategy for
Westminster City Council and working with Queen Mary University of
London and London Borough Tower Hamlets on designing inclusive green
spaces.
Previous projects
include ‘This Is For The Majority’, an evidence base & design
guidance for gender inclusion in London Borough Tower Hamlets, Lead author of the 2020-2030 Winchester Vision 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.
-Experience of working in the public and private sector, Public Practice alum and RTPI Woman of Influence 2023 & 2025
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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