Interested in #StakeholderEngagement in #environment and #planning settings?🤔🌱 Looking for recommendations for best practice?✅ Thinking about how to carry out effective #engagement online? 📶💻 This thread 🧵 shares some top tips. Feel free to contribute to the list! 👇 1/

Both Zander Wilson & I are delighted to receive commendation in the Royal Town Planning Institute Sir Peter Hall Award for Excellence in Research & Engagement 2022 for our book Digital Participatory Planning routledge.com/Digital-Partic… UCL CASA UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment Open Lab - Newcastle University Newcastle APL Newcastle University

Super-interesting and engaging keynote from Andrew Hudson-Smith on the meta verse, planning, and a new generation of students developing digital sensors, planning technologies and digital twins at UCL CASA

Amazing to see the new trains we (Open Lab - Newcastle University Zander Wilson @sunildvr and colleagues) helped people across Tyne and Wear add the finishing touches to becoming a reality!

The article Mark Tewdwr-Jones and I wrote in Liverpool University Press on the changing shape of digital technologies used in planning is now open access and free for all. Get 'em while they're hot. doi.org/10.3828/tpr.20…

Fantastic to see the new artwork for new Tyne and Wear Metro trains last night at Newcastle Contemporary Art. Back in the online consultation we Open Lab - Newcastle University ran, we suggested asking people across Tyne & Wear what they wanted on an otherwise blank wall inside trains... 1/

Digital public participation for strategic transport projects. This new open access paper discusses the method for one of the UK Research and Innovation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Newcastle City Futures urban living projects to design new Tyne and Wear Metro trains Newcastle University Zander Wilson tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

.Simon Bowen Emily daniel.parry Open Lab - Newcastle University and I are working with Metro to understand how we can improve your Metro. Give us your thoughts! #shapeyourmetro

Should we fear for the future of local news reporting in the north east and the impact on local democracy? Join our discussion tomorrow with Daniel Holland The Chronicle Bruce Unwin The Northern Echo and Sarah Carter BBC Sport Tyne & Wear pamediafestivals.co.uk/newcastle/ @PA_Training

We've had 5 housing ministers this year, each with different #planningreform agendas - so to help you keep track, I'm keeping a Planning Reform Tracker here: tinyurl.com/2p9383p7

Excited to be running workshops on the future of Tyne and Wear Metro again. Live in the region? Register your interest to take part! Zander Wilson @sunildvr Open Lab - Newcastle University

Join us on the 22nd and 23rd April to celebrate our opening weekend! We have several events running, all free and with activities suitable for different ages and interests. Head to our website for more information and to pre-book events that require it: bit.ly/FCOpeningWeeke…

Excellent opportunity to join the burgeoning digital cultures team at Newcastle University. Lectureship, T&R, open-ended, full time.

Some really great ideas for new planets (and funny stories) coming from visitors to the Great Exhibition Road Festival with Science Museum and Imperial College London. A planet made of ice cream? Get me a ticket!

New policy paper❗Developed at BSP, in collaboration with researchers across the country, the policy paper, titled ‘Planning for the Public: Why #Labour should support a public planning system,’ lays out a series of five core areas for #PlanningReform ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/plann…

Tomorrow's The Journal leads on details of the plan to set up a 4,000-job Investment Zone in the North East - with sites on Tyneside, Northumberland, Sunderland and South Tyneside, and County Durham #TomorrowsPapersToday

Newcastle people! Join us next week Farrell Centre for this emergency City Forum asking why Low Traffic Neighbourhoods #LTNs are being removed in Newcastle and what their future is in our city. farrellcentre.org.uk/whats-on/whats…

From commuters to creators: Really excited to share how we (@sunildvr Simon Bowen Mark Tewdwr-Jones) engaged with 33,000 voices to shape new Tyne and Wear Metro trains. Open Access paper available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is a good piece and provocation. Often neglected by those who only see planning as housing numbers, planning legally & practically is about so much more: flood defence, environmental protection, regeneration, infrastructure provision, conservation, energy, public engagement

The ‘Concrete Dreams’ exhibit at the Farrell Centre covers the vast infrastructure projects & urban transformations of the 60s & 70s which left an indelible, if much contested mark on Tyneside. Thanks for the interesting talk/tour earlier, Owen Hopkins! farrellcentre.org.uk/concrete-dream…