What if the key to resilient, just cities isn’t large-scale innovation — but small, local investments that ripple outward, addressing multiple urban challenges at once?

Next Tuesday, I’ll be speaking at Pollokshaws Community Hub in Glasgow on the future of the community hub — a civic typology with the power to re-energise neighbourhoods and reimagine how we live together. Architecture plays a vital role here: not just as physical structure, but as a container for shared identity, inclusion, and resilience.

Community hubs are the beating heart of our urban fabric. They cultivate economies of well-being through creativity, curiosity, and care — sparking opportunity and connection across generations, cultures, and ways of thinking, from the practical to the poetic.

At Studio Locus, we’ve spent the past two years researching community spaces across the Netherlands and Scotland — from Huis van de Wijk and buurtkamers to cultural and civic centres — asking: How can architecture reflect and support the inclusivity, sustainability, and collectivity these spaces foster?

This event is organised by the The University of Edinburgh, and I’m honoured to be speaking alongside Dr Claire Bynner (lecturer in Social Justice and Community Action), Fiona Eadie (Project Co-ordinator, Pollokshaws Area Network), and Jelle van Aanholt (researcher in metropolitan governance).