It's time to invest in skills

Seize the opportunity during the slowdown to develop your urban design skills and position yourself at the forefront of the design agenda. Attending the CABE urban design summer school will allow you to invest in your skills or those of your organisation.

Invest in your personal skills and knowledge in the key interdisciplinary area of urban design.  In difficult times those who have specialist knowledge and broad place-making skills succeed.

Invest in private sector skills.  Make sure your key people are prepared to work as effectively as possible, with vital skills and knowledge in place-making.  In a slow market, quality and value-added design sells, so invest in skills now and prepare your firm for today and for growth during the upturn. 

Invest in public sector skills.  The public sector is picking up the pieces but new skills are needed to deliver quality development. The slow-down in activity is an opportunity to develop policies and guidance for design quality and to invest in the public realm as a stimulus to development. These both need urban design know-how and the CABE urban design summer school will help your staff lead the design agenda and promote good design principles.

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At the sixth CABE urban design summer school in Bristol you will:

• Find out how urban design can help us understand, make and re-make places
• Hear from challenging and inspiring speakers
• Learn through doing in our collaborative ‘big design project’
• Interact with people from all the professions that influence the built environment
• Update your skills, build your confidence, renew your commitment.

Bristol will be your classroom. It has history, topography and diversity. It has historic streets, regenerated waterfronts, revitalised public spaces and a brand new retail quarter. Join us here next June and you will leave inspired, challenged, delighted and exhausted. You'll also be armed with the knowledge and skills to make great places.


Speakers
Each year the summer school recruits the industry’s leading thinkers and doers to discuss and work with teams on the key issues for urban design now and in the future.

This year you will hear nationally and internationally recognised speakers from a range of organisations, including Studio Egret West, Bauman Lyons, Hamilton-Baillie Associates, The Prince's Foundation and the World Health Organsiation.

See the full list of speakers and their biographies