The Glass-House Community Led Design

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Meet the team

We are a core team of six, all passionate about our work and dedicated to helping local communities and built environment professionals make better places and spaces.

Sophia de Sousa

Chief Executive

Sophia joined The Glass-House in June 2005, and led the transformation from what was an Architecture Foundation project to an independent national charity. As Chief Executive, Sophia works to ensure that community participation and leadership in physical regeneration is not a token gesture, but a valuable means of informing good, sustainable design that benefits local people and that will lead to the long-term improvement of neighbourhoods. Sophia is an advocate of cross sector partnerships and believes them essential to the success of regeneration and of community empowerment.

sophia@theglasshouse.org.uk

Maja Luna Jorgensen

Strategic Projects Manager

Maja's background as an urban designer in the private sector informs her ambition to enable inclusive and meaningful design processes. At The Glass-House Maja plays a strategic role in the organisation, working with the Chief Executive to develop our training and advisory offer and to build partnerships. She also champions community engagement and good design through developing and delivering independent advice, support and training to professionals and community groups across the UK, working to forge strong relations and enable real change.

maja@theglasshouse.org.uk

Louise Dredge

Communications Manager

Louise combines her passion for communications, the built environment and community participation in her role at The Glass-House. She has a background in the arts and cultural sector and has previously worked with the Irish Architecture Foundation in Dublin, Ireland. Louise holds a Masters of Regional and Urban Planning from University College Dublin, and has a strong commitment to de-mystifying architecture and urban design, and empowering communities to contribute to local regeneration.

louise@theglasshouse.org.uk

Lucia das Neves

Marketing and Events Manager

Lucia is a chartered marketer who is passionate about making a difference to people and their environment. She has ten years experience of reaching diverse audiences with targeted messages and combines a creative approach with a dedication to strategy and asking the difficult questions. Recently working in the health sector, Lucia has experience in regeneration, local government and the private sector.

lucia@theglasshouse.org.uk

Melissa Lacide

Senior Advisor

Melissa studied English Literature followed by Design Studies where she developed a passion for sustainability. She has a Master’s degree in Design for Development, which enabled her to apply research skills and explore participatory design in a range of community projects. Her academic, professional and voluntary roles have spanned the built environment, conservation, energy efficiency, people assets and product lifecycles. Through this she has created and implemented workshops using empathic approaches and different engagement tools. Her role at The Glass-House is to deliver project support to community groups and build networks with beneficiaries, clients and partners.

melissa@theglasshouse.org.uk

Charmaine Daley

Administrator

Charmaine is a committed and resourceful Administrator with over twenty years experience in administration and finance in the UK, and in her native Montserrat. For the past nine years she has worked for several charitable organisations including The Dandelion Trust and MedFASH, providing meticulous administrative and finance support.

charmaine@theglasshouse.org.uk

We had an excellent day and the places we visited were amazingly close to what we are trying to create here in Stockwell. I am grateful for your acute interest in what we have to say

- Mukhtar Hassan, ESCA, Study Tour attendee
Can I once again thank Glass-House for all their help and interest. You are an excellent organisation – and the staff are lovely as well!”

- John Cole, Baildon Community Link, Design Training attendee
The training experience was extremely enjoyable and very informative. We have come away with a design which we feel we can put into reality and the training was probably the best I have attended.

Karen Beaumont, Spaces by Design course attendee
The course was excellent and I can't thank you and Glass-House enough for the support you've given us, it has made all the difference to the way we look at the project."

- Jane at Goldsmiths, Design Training attendee, March 2010

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19/06/2013

Community through theatre...

We took part in a fantastic day of theatre making at the New Vic Theatre in June