TBT Pathfinders Series: Creating a Healthy & Child Friendly Street
Architect Magali Thomson, Project Lead for Placemaking at GOSH, talks about the strategies entailed in advancing this holistic vision
The Temple Bar Trust’s Pathfinders series showcases and celebrates architects and urban designers exploring issues of identity and meaning in their work. We place a focus on practitioners’ engagement of diverse communities, narratives and languages – resilient and equitable cultural drivers of placemaking for London in the 21st century as it transitions through the COVID crisis into a new era. We place a strong focus on how holistic, caring approaches to local environments are taken by architects, urban designers, civic leaders and community members. Such an ongoing, engaged approach benefits people of all ages and backgrounds, and recognises their rights to healthy public spaces responsive to their specific needs.
About this Event;
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (GOSH), the first UK children’s hospital and London NHS Trust to declare a Climate & Health Emergency, is advancing plans for a healthy and child-friendly public realm to support sick children, their carers and the staff, and the surrounding community suffering the effects of deprivation and lack of access to green space. Architect Magali Thomson, Project Lead for Placemaking at GOSH, talks about the strategies and challenges entailed in advancing this holistic vision responding to Camden Council’s Climate Emergency and Healthy Streets strategy with urban greening for biodiversity, trees for cooling and reducing the urban heat island effect, plants improving air quality and acting as sound absorbers, and SuDS enabling water absorption and filtration, as well as Making London Child-Friendly, the 2020 GLA Good Growth by Design Report.
This talk is part of the 2021 London Festival of Architecture – this year’s theme is ‘Care’ - taking place during the month of June.
About Magali Thomson;
Magali Thomson is an architect and a Public Practice Associate placed at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she is Project Lead for Place Making. She is leading a transformational approach to public realm as an integral part of the planning process for Great Ormond Street's new Children's Cancer Centre. She is also studying at the London School of Economics for an MSc in Cities, which complements her Public Practice placement, a complementary strand of Magali’s work building on her passion for equitable cities, especially in relation to children and older people. She previously led a successful education team to deliver award-winning schools at Marks Barfield Architects. Magali joined Public Practice from The Children’s Trust where she consulted on their future vision and strategy, and how their estate development can support these. She is a member of the Design South East, Sutton and Brighton design review panels providing design support to local authorities, developers and communities in the south-east of England.
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