Gathering in the City: The spaces that help us come together

The most recent in our series of ‘In the City’ debates took place at The Society Building, London, on Tuesday 3 December 2024. In the last event of the year, we considered ‘Gathering in the City’.

We are wired to be social; we crave connection and thrive on forming relationships. Perhaps more traditionally taking place in, for example, cafés, parks and libraries, we are now seeing a growing number of spaces for social gathering located within other types of buildings.

In offices, universities and schools, in our cultural institutions and even in apartment buildings, there is a growing desire to create loose fit spaces where occupants of the building can gather informally and do more-or-less whatever they want, for free!

These spaces are often expensive to fit out and do not generate a rentable income so why are we seeing an increasing number of these “Third Spaces” appear in buildings across London? 

Our amazing panel explored this and more.

Sarah Cary, White City Development Director - Imperial College
Fr Moses Enehizena, Parish Priest - St Mellitus
Auro Foxcroft, Director - Village Underground and EartH
Samuel Lawson Johnston, Co-founder - Kinrise
Lydia Lee, Assistant Director, Culture and Regeneration - Bromley Council
 
Laurence Pinnfire, Director here at Tate+Co Architects, chaired the debate.

Thanks so much to the panel and to all our guests for joining the debate. 

Please do get in touch if you would like to continue the conversation.

studio@tateandco.com

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Gathering in The City: The spaces that help us come together

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