THE GRIMSHAW PODCAST
Arts & Culture Podcasts
The Grimshaw Podcast is focussed on the City – and those who shape our cities. The podcast presents engaging and insightful interviews with architects, city planners, developers, strategists and change-makers. These conversations take place between international guests and your host, Tim Williams, Grimshaw’s Cities Group Lead. Organised into series which reflect a specific overarching topic or theme, the podcasts examine how are cities are evolving, how they have dealt with unprecedented recent growth and how they will adapt to change and regenerate for a better future. The complexities and issues facing our cities have never been so topical and the podcast showcases ideas, experiences and strategies for a contemporary world.
Series 1, the inaugural Cities Series features such diverse voices as New York’s urban innovator, Jonathan Rose; Sue Lloyd Hurwitz from Mirvac, one of Australia’s biggest and best developers; Dan Labbad of The Crown Estate; the Hon. Rob Stokes, Minister for Planning in NSW Australia in the Berejiklian Government; Wei Yan, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute; Greg Clark of HSBC; Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney Jess Scully; Lisa Havilah, CEO of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, The Powerhouse; Lance Jay Brown from the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization, NY and Selina Mason of Lendlease, London. An impressive and balanced list.
Series 2 presents Culture & The City: culture both high and low and culture as a catalyst for renewal. Some of the featured conversations are with Melih Fereli of Istanbul’s Arter; Tim Jones of the City of London, Cultural Mile and Sara Hamka who founded and directs a wildly popular poetry slam in Western Sydney. Other voices will join this group of thinkers and doers as the series rolls out here.
About your host
Tim Williams, prior to joining Grimshaw, was formerly Head of Cities for Arup. Between 2011 and 2017 he was CEO of the Committee for Sydney, Australia’s leading urban policy thinktank and capital city business advocacy group. Prior to coming to Australia in 2010 Tim had been special adviser on urban policy and planning to five consecutive UK Ministers and helped to create the Homes and Communities Agency, now Homes England. He advised Lendlease on the London Olympic Village. He is an independent advisor for both Cardiff and Canberra, on the future of their cities. He leads Grimshaw's Cities Group providing advice and strategic urban directions for global cities.
About Grimshaw
Grimshaw was founded by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 1980 and today operates with studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Sydney and Melbourne employing over 650 staff. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers all major sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards. The company's work is characterised by strong conceptual legibility, innovation and a rigorous approach to detailing, all underpinned by the principles of humane, enduring and sustainable design. The practice is dedicated to the deepest level of involvement in the design of its buildings in order to deliver projects which meet the highest possible standards of excellence.
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Location:
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Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
The Grimshaw Podcast is focussed on the City – and those who shape our cities. The podcast presents engaging and insightful interviews with architects, city planners, developers, strategists and change-makers. These conversations take place between international guests and your host, Tim Williams, Grimshaw’s Cities Group Lead. Organised into series which reflect a specific overarching topic or theme, the podcasts examine how are cities are evolving, how they have dealt with unprecedented recent growth and how they will adapt to change and regenerate for a better future. The complexities and issues facing our cities have never been so topical and the podcast showcases ideas, experiences and strategies for a contemporary world. Series 1, the inaugural Cities Series features such diverse voices as New York’s urban innovator, Jonathan Rose; Sue Lloyd Hurwitz from Mirvac, one of Australia’s biggest and best developers; Dan Labbad of The Crown Estate; the Hon. Rob Stokes, Minister for Planning in NSW Australia in the Berejiklian Government; Wei Yan, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute; Greg Clark of HSBC; Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney Jess Scully; Lisa Havilah, CEO of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, The Powerhouse; Lance Jay Brown from the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization, NY and Selina Mason of Lendlease, London. An impressive and balanced list. Series 2 presents Culture & The City: culture both high and low and culture as a catalyst for renewal. Some of the featured conversations are with Melih Fereli of Istanbul’s Arter; Tim Jones of the City of London, Cultural Mile and Sara Hamka who founded and directs a wildly popular poetry slam in Western Sydney. Other voices will join this group of thinkers and doers as the series rolls out here. About your host Tim Williams, prior to joining Grimshaw, was formerly Head of Cities for Arup. Between 2011 and 2017 he was CEO of the Committee for Sydney, Australia’s leading urban policy thinktank and capital city business advocacy group. Prior to coming to Australia in 2010 Tim had been special adviser on urban policy and planning to five consecutive UK Ministers and helped to create the Homes and Communities Agency, now Homes England. He advised Lendlease on the London Olympic Village. He is an independent advisor for both Cardiff and Canberra, on the future of their cities. He leads Grimshaw's Cities Group providing advice and strategic urban directions for global cities. About Grimshaw Grimshaw was founded by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 1980 and today operates with studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Sydney and Melbourne employing over 650 staff. Grimshaw's international portfolio covers all major sectors and has been honoured with over 200 international design awards. The company's work is characterised by strong conceptual legibility, innovation and a rigorous approach to detailing, all underpinned by the principles of humane, enduring and sustainable design. The practice is dedicated to the deepest level of involvement in the design of its buildings in order to deliver projects which meet the highest possible standards of excellence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Language:
English
Episodes
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CITY
3/11/2024
Today, the Grimshaw Cities podcast is pleased to launch the first episode of our new, fourth series: The Intelligent City. Dr Tim Williams welcomes Dr. Sarah Barns, founder and director of ESEM Projects, a leading expert in experiential art, design and digital storytelling for urban precincts. Sarah Barnes was recently awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship from RMIT to further her work as an urban strategist. She is known for her facilitation of community, creative and digital programs that connect people, places and habitat. Grimshaw’s Head of Design Technology, Andy Watts, joins Tim and Sarah in this conversation.
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Duration:00:53:55
SHAPING THE URBAN FUTURE
12/22/2023
In this episode Oxford University’s Professor Michael Keith talks about his unique experience as someone who has combined analysing cities across the globe with leadership of a major London council.
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Duration:00:58:47
SHAPING THE URBAN FUTURE
12/22/2023
In this episode Oxford University’s Professor Michael Keith talks about his unique experience as someone who has combined analysing cities across the globe with leadership of a major London council.
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Duration:00:58:47
THE HEALTHY CITY
12/1/2023
Professor Billie Giles-Corti of RMIT is a global expert on the links between how cities are structured and public health and climate outcomes. In this podcast we discuss her research but also the strategies she identifies to improve cities - and public health.
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Duration:00:52:32
VISIONS OF THE CITY
9/18/2023
In this edition, Tim Williams interviews Professor Alex Krieger of the influential Harvard School of Design about his recent book City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. Visions drive city-making and in this podcast we learn about the diverse visions that have shaped US cities.
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Duration:00:54:06
GOVERNING INNOVATION
8/14/2023
In this episode of the Building the City series, Julie Wagner, President of The Global Institute on Innovation Districts, discusses her new report on the seven key factors in designing effective governance of innovation districts – crucial new foundations of the next stage of the urban economy. Listen to Episode 9 Governing Innovation with your host, Tim Williams.
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Duration:01:04:35
FINANCING THE GREEN CITY
7/17/2023
In the latest episode of the Building the City series for the Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, a global leader in green finance tells us "Box-ticking and greenwashing won’t achieve the scale of the transformation required to meet the challenges of the climate emergency. Cross-sector collaboration and the focused application of the creativity, innovation and skills of the financial services industry to finance the global transition will". Listen to Episode 8: Financing the Green City with your host Tim Williams.
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Duration:00:54:04
HOMES AND CITIES FOR ALL
5/16/2023
This is the seventh episode in the Building the City podcast series. Hear from your host Tim Williams in conversation with Kate Davies CBE who ran one of the largest and most dynamic Community Housing Providers in Europe, with over 60,000 properties in its portfolio by 2022. In this podcast, she describes the impact of Notting Hill Genesis Housing Association and how to deliver ‘homes for all in the city for all’.
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Duration:01:01:36
THE NET ZERO CITY
4/19/2023
The Net Zero City is the sixth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews Peter Newman AO, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. Peter has written 20 books and 300 papers on sustainable cities and is well known for creating the term "automobile dependence". As a key author on transport on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Peter is a global leader at the interface of urban policy and transport on the journey to the net zero city.
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Duration:00:50:22
ASIA AND THE URBAN FUTURE
3/27/2023
Asia and the Urban Future is the fifth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, Professor Richard Hu of Canberra University and author of Reinventing the Chinese City (2023) and Smart Design (2021) gives us an impressive overview of key city trends in Asia and indeed across the world.
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Duration:00:53:54
CITIES BY DESIGN
2/24/2023
Cities by Design is the fourth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews David Hutton, Group Head of Development with global firm Lendlease. Based in Singapore David has worked on major city-shaping projects all over the world and oversees the company's Urbanisation Practice, focused on sharing best practice in design and development across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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Duration:00:47:16
REGENERATING CITIES
12/16/2022
Regenerating Cities is the third episode in the Building the City podcast series. Your Grimshaw host, Tim Williams, discusses urban regeneration and planning with Dame Alison Nimmo DBE who has a distinguished career in the field of UK cities and urbanism. She spent eight years helping to win and subsequently deliver the London 2012 Summer Olympics as a Director in the Olympic Delivery Authority and has led major city centre regeneration projects in Manchester and Sheffield. Listen to Tim Williams and Alison Nimmo DBE’s conversation on regenerating cities.
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Duration:01:00:19
BUILDING PLACES FOR PEOPLE
11/16/2022
As cities grow, affordable housing options need to be made available for all communities. In Episode 2 of the Building the City podcast series, Grimshaw talks to an internationally acknowledged expert in social and affordable housing who is the former Group Chief Executive of Places for People Group, one of the largest social and affordable housing providers in the world. If anyone knows the way forward for affordable housing, it’s David Cowans. Listen to David and Grimshaw’s Tim Williams, himself a former UK government advisor on housing, discussing the future of building more inclusive and affordable cities.
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Duration:00:55:25
ABOUT BUILDING LONDON
11/2/2022
Building Cities is the third Grimshaw podcast series about our cities. In this series we interview leaders from around the globe about their role in our built environment from architects, urban designers, and developers to infrastructure providers or indeed builders. We kick off our first episode with a special guest–a leader working from behind the scenes as a key advisor to the city builders who reshaped London in the last 25 years: Richard Brown, former advisor to the London Mayor on urban design and Olympic planning and former Deputy Director at the Centre for London.
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Duration:01:02:05
CULTURE AND PRECINCTS
8/31/2022
The 10th episode in the Culture and the City series of the Grimshaw podcast finds Tim Williams, Practice Lead of our Cities Group in conversation with Kate Meyrick, a director with major planning consultancy Urbis.
Kate is the former CEO of the Hornery Institute, and a passionate urbanist and place maker with more than 25 years of international experience across Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. She is a respected expert in visioning and positioning city scale precincts, working sensitively with stakeholders and the community to co-create powerful new futures for well-loved places.
The podcast reviews international examples of cultural precincts and Transit Oriented Developments as well as the exciting prospects for Brisbane arising from the city being the location for the 2032 Olympics.
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Duration:01:05:39
VALUING CULTURE
8/10/2022
Mark Davy is the founder of Futurecity, a global cultural placemaking agency. Futurecity create cultural strategies for public and private sector organisations, broker cultural partnerships and deliver major art projects. Recent projects include the development of a prospectus for the new Arts Quarter in London’s famous West End; a new program called ‘Preview’ consisting of ‘Living Labs’ in property developments across the UK to encourage creative incubation in spaces designed to attract young and emerging talent; and the curation of a landmark cultural partnership between the Centre Pompidou and leading international developer Beulah International as part of ‘STH BNK By Beulah’ – an ambitious vertical city development in the heart of the Arts Precinct of Melbourne. Mark, who has a long term relationship with Grimshaw, talks about these and other great cultural placemaking projects.
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Duration:01:00:53
DYNAMIC CULTURES
7/20/2022
John Montgomery is an internationally renowned planner and urbanist who has published four books on cities and urban policy, with perhaps his best known one being The New Wealth of Cities. Currently based in Brisbane, Dr Montgomery began his career in the UK where he directly influenced government policy on town and city centre revitalisation, night time economies, the 24 Hour City, and the role of the ‘creative class’ and culture in city dynamics. John has helped design cultural and innovation precincts internationally, including Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Brisbane and Sydney. John speaks with passion, deep insight and humour about the challenges facing cities today.
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Duration:01:02:04
THE ART OF THE CITY
7/6/2022
In this latest episode of our Grimshaw podcast, Culture and the City series, Tim Williams interviews Rose Hiscock, Director of Museums and Collections at The University of Melbourne. Prior to this, Rose was Director of Science Gallery Melbourne and Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Australia’s contemporary museum for excellence and innovation in applied arts and sciences. Rose is recognised as a national leader in her field with an international reputation. The discussion focuses on her role and the amazing collections she curates; her passion for the arts and for her city Melbourne; her innovative engagement with First Nations’ communities and cultures; and her great work in enabling young people, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, to access the city’s key galleries and collections. Rose is a city-shaper combining expertise and soul, which is why this interview is called: The Art of the City.
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Duration:00:46:22
CULTURES OF RESILIENCE
6/8/2022
Architecture can embody and project power. But it can also, especially in our cities, be a tool in the hands of those who resist, expressing the creativity and resilience of their cultures. In Episode 6 of our Culture and the City Series, Tim Williams speaks about this and much more with Sumayya Vally, Johannesburg-born founder of Counterspace. In 2021 Sumayya designed the Serpentine Pavilion and in 2022-23, she will curate the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah. In this powerful and compelling conversation, Sumayya traces the paths of her career trajectory and sources of inspiration, revealing why the city is the place where diverse peoples gather and co-create.
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Duration:00:52:46
NYC: CULTURAL CAPITAL
5/18/2022
Episode 5 in the Culture and the City podcast series finds our host Dr Tim Williams in conversation with Andrew Burmeister, Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects in New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). DCLA is the largest municipal funder of culture in the United States and is “committed to providing access to art and culture for all New Yorkers”. It supports world famous cultural assets which attract visitors from across the globe. In this discussion, Andrew talks engagingly and insightfully about the strategy behind the investments in cultural infrastructure, and also of the delights and challenges of his work before, during and in the wake of the pandemic. We love New York and the cultural institutions that are core to its brand. This podcast provides special insights into the work which Andrew and his department undertake, ensuring that New York’s cultural institutions thrive.
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Duration:00:48:35