Reimagining the way we live
A Living Lab for the Future of Places
We're reimagining the way we live. Developed by the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», Nudge Community Builders and The Box, this collaboration explores how communities, researchers, creative practitioners and policymakers can work together to shape more liveable, inclusive and resilient places. It is coordinated through the
Centre for Place : an interdisciplinary research hub that tackles contemporary societal and global challenges through place-based inquiry.
We think big questions need big thinking, different perspectives and bold ideas. Running across 2026–2027, the space and programme will be used to explore how we live now – and how we might live better in the future.
Grounded in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», the programme connects local experience with national and international conversations about the future of cities and communities.
This exhibition uses archival collections, sculpture, installation, painting, photography and film to explore ideas of home, housing and community (24 October 2026 – 21 February 2027).
Events and activity
Happening across our venues, including a city-wide autumn festival. Upcoming: CAMP Before and After; Fragments of Origin, and Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Octopus project residency.
A Living Lab for the Future of Places. This is a space for conversation, experimentation and exchange where ideas about the future of places can be explored together.
Big questions need big thinking
Systems, communities and institutions
How can we better integrate the role of place for local systems, community organisations and institutions, and how can policy mechanisms affect these?
Housing, neighbourhoods and thriving places
How can we design and build better places for people to live and thrive through innovation in housing and neighbourhoods?
Health, nature and place
How can we better measure and evidence the links between health, nature and place?
Community empowerment and participation
What are the methods for community empowerment and urban planning for place-based change that better involve marginalised groups?
Creative futures
How can we creatively reimagine the way we live?
Technology, data and lived experience
How can digital technology, including AI, help us better understand lived experience of place and support place-based communities?
