Lunchtime roundtables

Rob is an architect and Head of Sustainability for Stride Treglown. Rob is passionate about placemaking, regenerative design, biodiversity and healthy cities. He is coordinating the practice's focus on zero carbon, nature abundant, people-centric, zero waste design. He was one of the founders and organisers of the Therapeutic City festival in Bath. The 7 day event explored how to make places good for the mind, body and soul and hosted a wider range of speakers as well as collaborating on closing main thoroughfares in the city to traffic during the festival. Rob was one of the architects behind the practice’s shortlisted ‘Re-imagining the Garden City’ entry, and been the winner of two RIBA competitions: ‘Tomorrow’s Garden City: A sustainable approach to living’ and ‘Imagine Bath’. He was architect for Great Bow Yard which was named ‘most energy efficient street in the UK’ when it was completed. He is behind several initiatives including 52 Big Ideas for Bristol, Waters of Bath, Bristol Colour Capital and more recently Sinking House, a climate art installation that received global media coverage, and a Funeral for Nature, a large-scale street procession highlighting biodiversity loss.

Tudor is a dual-qualified urban designer (MRTPI and recognised practitioner in urban design) with over 15 years’ experience, specialising in urban regeneration and complex mixed-use projects for both the private and public sector.

People-centred place shaping is at the core of Eli's work. She specialises in trans/interdisciplinary urban research, design-driven research, and systems-informed approaches. Through her work, she explores how asset and value-based approaches, combining the tangible and intangible, can facilitate more sustainable and social city-making and joined-up research and innovation.

Clare is global practice leader for cities at Mott MacDonald. She is passionate about using cross-disciplinary synergy and integrated systems thinking to enable more people to be accommodated in urban areas for less cost, consuming less energy, materials and water, emitting less CO2, and cutting waste, while achieving an enhanced quality of life. She brings a practical understanding of sustainable development drivers and processes at both macro and micro level, gained through nearly 30 years as a low-energy engineer in the built environment. Combining this with engagement at policy level, she is able to bring insight into the technical, political, financial and behavioural aspects of sustainable development, particularly in areas of energy efficiency and thermal masterplanning in the built environment. Her role is often to lead stakeholders through a process of objective setting and risk assessment, where her ability to apply clarity and sensitivity in the fast-moving cities area allows decisions to be taken in an informed manner despite a lack of precedent or future certainty. In particular, working for both private-sector developers and city municipalities has given her a valuable understanding of how to align objectives and optimise outcomes.