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53. Detailer 53 - James Lord
01:00:00||Season 2, Ep. 53David sits in a shady corner of the new Queen Elizabeth II garden in Regent's Park with its designer, James Lord of HTA, to discuss its inspiration and sustainable lessons for cities faced with climate change, 'slow gardening', hedgehogs, Jamie Oliver, dyslexia, and Lord's own journey into landscape, a discipline growing in importance in development and urban environments
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52. Detailer Live! (52) - (How to) design your way out of the Apocalypse
01:01:50||Season 2, Ep. 52In the third of a series of Salons for furniture firm Sixteen3, David talks to entrepreneur and author Arthur Kay, Natasha Reid of Matter Space Soul and Lauren Davies of Arup about their thoughts on how - and what kinds of - radical changes might be needed to stave off environmental calamity and make the world a better place
51. Detailer 51 - Jay Morton
57:41||Season 2, Ep. 51David sits down in a restaurant on the South Bank to chat with Bell Phillips director Jay Morton about her decision to stand as RIBA president, being a 'forever campaigner' knocking on doors with Ed Miliband, banging the drum for city architects and the public to use architects more, whether she would advise her son Wren to go into the profession, Bognor, Butlins, the Bartlett... and how, perhaps, 'quiet lasses get 'nout'
50. Detailer 50 - Sinéad Conneely
49:31||Season 2, Ep. 50David catches up with engineer Sinéad Conneely of Simple Works at UKREiiF in Leeds to talk about personal and professional challenges, being a business owner in tough times, purpose-driven development, being a B-Corp, designing monasteries - and her hopes for the ultimate project: a velodrome
49. Detailer 49 - Deborah Saunt
01:00:00||Season 2, Ep. 49David catches up with Deborah Saunt of DSDHA to walk through Somers Town, a hidden corner of London where her practice has stitched back the urban fabric between King's Cross' mega-projects based on play and popular green spaces
48. Detailer 48 - Peter Murray
01:02:55||Season 2, Ep. 48Murray 4 Mayor. David catches up with Peter Murray to quiz him about his ambitions to be London Mayor in 2028. Why is he doing it? What are his main policies, aside from 'GSD' (Getting Stuff/Shit Done)? How much will it cost? And why does he think London has lost its way?
47. Detailer Live (47) - Loneliness, with Alex Lifschutz, Nicola Bacon and James Teatum
01:06:48||Season 1, Ep. 47David chairs a panel on the subject of loneliness at the Sixteen3 Showroom in Clerkenwell London with Alex Lifschutz of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, Nicola Bacon of Social Life, and James Teatum of Noiascape. How can the built environment help reduce the impacts of this silent killer? Are new models of residential development the way forward? And is the modern world of screens and social media helping, or hindering?
