Melissa Mean: People Make Places

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments

This video podcast shows footage from 6th December 2006 when Melissa Mean from Demos presented her most recent work at the University of Central Lancashire for In Certain Places.

Melissa runs the Cities Programme at Demos, where she leads a variety of projects on public space, creativity, and the future of cities.

Projects that Melissa has been involved with include:

-Glasgow 2020: a major mass imagination project which explores non-institutional approaches to city development.

-Mass Participation 2012: a feasibility study investigating how communities across the whole of the UK can meaningfully participate in the London Olympics and win a sustainable local legacy.

-Extended Malls: looking at how and if out of town shopping centres (often seen as the bogey-men of urban renewal) can yet become spaces of civic and social value. Melissa has worked with a wide range of cities and local authorities across the UK and internationally.

Previous to joining Demos Melissa was Government Affairs Officer for the RSPB where she worked on climate change, transport and urban policy. Melissa also spent time in Washington DC working for Public Citizen on environmental justice and consumer rights issues.

Credits: Melissa Mean

For more information about demos please visit www.demos.co.uk

To view the Demos ‘People Make Places’ report by Melissa Mean and Charlie Tims published in 2005 which features Preston, please go to www.demos.co.uk/publications/peoplemakeplacesbook

This talk was commissioned by Preston’s public art initiative In Certain Places. For more information please visit www.incertainplaces.org

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