FreeState

One of the key challenges facing our clients and friends across the board is how to attract and engage the world’s best talent. In the world of the university campus, best talent includes students, academics, alumni, industry, and partners, who all contribute to the successes by which universities are now judged.

Interestingly, one of the key attractors for all these audiences is the right access to each other, a wonderful, rich mix of ideators, thinkers, generators, and commissioners who together have the capacity to create new futures and tangible innovation. Crucial, then, to an attractive campus of the future is actively bringing these audiences together to connect and exchange.

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FREESTATE One of the key challenges facing our clients and friends across the board is how to attract and engage the world’s best talent. In the world of the university campus, best talent includes students, academics, alumni, industry, and partners, who all contribute to the successes by which universities...

Developers. Your attention, please. When it comes to ensuring that a community is properly served by a large architectural project, we appear to have become super adept at seeming to walk the talk, but in the end – boxes ticked, hoops jumped through – showing our true bottom-line colours: profit, profit and more profit.

FREESTATE I say this not to point fingers, or to tar all developers with the same brush, but rather to underline the fact that I think that genuine community engagement and making a profit are one and the same, a fact underlined by a local artist I was interviewing last December for a piece of research on a m...

Calling all airports - underlay not overlay! 'Thinking about experience and the airport, it could easily be the most wonderful of programmed festivals'.

FREESTATE 1. Borrowing from the success of early Disney, it is the rigour and creative thought that anticipates and sets the agenda for the creation of places made for and by people.

Adam speaking on the panel for the Raise Your Flag debate. Thanks MA Narrative Environments for putting together this wonderful and insightful event!