Diverse Dialogues The Podcast
Diverse Dialogues The Podcast
Podcast Description
Diverse Dialogues The Podcast puts people at the centre of conversations about place, power, and who really gets to shape our cities. Through honest dialogue and bold perspectives, the podcast explores how we can build better, fairer futures. Rooted in real-world practice and grounded in lived experience, the podcast responds to a continued lack of physical spaces and platforms that truly centre diverse voices. Each episode brings together changemakers from across the built environment, designers, developers, policymakers, and community leaders, to reflect on inclusive practice, systemic change, and the future of our cities.This podcast is for anyone invested in the challenge of creating inclusive, sustainable, and socially just places. Whether you're a developer, commissioner, architect, student, or activist, you'll find real insight and tangible takeaways. Hosted by Kuljeet Sibia, an architect and urban strategist with deep experience across sectors, the podcast explores how design quality, equity, and lived experience intersect in the way we shape and deliver the built environment.If you care about people, place, and power, and want to rethink how development can serve the many, not just the few, Diverse Dialogues is for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of urban equity, community engagement, and innovative design practices, with episodes like Reflecting on Waterden Green highlighting co-creation with community members. Other topics include systemic change in urban planning and the role of diverse voices in shaping equitable futures, making it a vital platform for discussing how cities can serve all citizens.
Diverse Dialogues The Podcast puts people at the centre of conversations about place, power, and who really gets to shape our cities. Through honest dialogue and bold perspectives, the podcast explores how we can build better, fairer futures. Rooted in real-world practice and grounded in lived experience, the podcast responds to a continued lack of physical spaces and platforms that truly centre diverse voices. Each episode brings together changemakers from across the built environment, designers, developers, policymakers, and community leaders, to reflect on inclusive practice, systemic change, and the future of our cities.
This podcast is for anyone invested in the challenge of creating inclusive, sustainable, and socially just places. Whether you’re a developer, commissioner, architect, student, or activist, you’ll find real insight and tangible takeaways. Hosted by Kuljeet Sibia, an architect and urban strategist with deep experience across sectors, the podcast explores how design quality, equity, and lived experience intersect in the way we shape and deliver the built environment.
If you care about people, place, and power, and want to rethink how development can serve the many, not just the few, Diverse Dialogues is for you.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the final episode of our mini-series, Whose Safety? Rethinking Public Space for Women and Girls, Kuljeet is joined by Daisy Froud, strategist in participatory design, Mayoral Design Advocate, and member of the steering group behind the GLA’s guidance on Safety in Public Space, Women, Girls and Gender Diverse People. This conversation explores what safety really means when we move beyond solutions and into belonging, power, and the cultures that shape public space. Daisy reflects on how safety is formed long before any design reaches the site, through briefs, systems, politics and institutional attitudes that determine whose voices are heard and whose knowledge is valued. Together, we discuss why safety must be built with people; how co-writing briefs can create influence; the risks of performative engagement; and the links between safety, gentrification and belonging. As the series concludes, the conversation returns to a key insight: there is no single story of safety, it is lived, intersectional and constantly negotiated.
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Thank you to our collaborators:
Edited and mixed by Wilfred Petherbridge
Recorded with the Content Production Team at the London College of Fashion, Alex Marshall, Dan Adakpor, Nicholas Sargeant, and Oliver Furlong.
Music via Epidemicsound:
Spectre in the Leaves, by DonVayei
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