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.
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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 this first episode of our mini-series Reflecting on Waterden Green: Power, Place, and Participation, Kuljeet is joined by former colleagues from the London Legacy Development Corporation; Ruth Lin Wong Holmes, Jen Anderson, and Nigel Dexter, to explore the story behind a groundbreaking public realm project in Queen Elizabth Olympic Park, East London. Waterden Green is more than just a new green space for teenage girls; it’s a bold experiment in co-creation, where young women were empowered as co-clients to shape the brief, design, and decisions from the ground up.
Discover more about LLDC and QEOP here: https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk
Find out more or reach out to Diverse Dialogues:
https://diversedialogues.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/our_diversedialogues
Thank you to our collaborators:
Edited and mixed by Wilfred Petherbridge
Recorded with the Content Production Team at 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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