MELA

Over the summer months we have been engaging with the residents of The Mill neighbourhood in Cardiff managed by Cadwyn Housing Association.

The neighbourhood is waiting for a Community Hub to bring people together. We prototyped different ideas to bring people together and asked people what kind of community space do they want.

Local residents collaged their ideal community space and created a vision.

The 4 Meet At The Mill pop up events culminated in a We Are The Mill Festival where residents ran their own stalls and workshops.

Fun was had by all. Looking forward to developing the ideas further in a few co-design workshops!

‪ is it democratic and inclusive? Here’s Noha’s response at the event last week arguing for over for developers to build risk-free more faster. https://youtu.be/qn3B30fmKM4‬

AoU & West Midlands RTPI: Designing for the Future: Why cross-disciplinary design matters The Academy of Urbanism and RTPI West Midlands Urban Design Forum Panel discussion, based around the Planning for the Future White Paper. The panellists: Nic...

‪Pleased to be invited to attend the conference in - an international initiative by local governments dedicated to urban issues; developing spatial and social policy for cities in Poland, Norway and Iceland. https://divercity4.pl/en/‬

DiverCITY4 | Polish-Norwegian cooperation in the field of creating modern development solutions in cities Agenda of the Conference summarizing the Birateal Initiative DiverCITY4 We encourage you to read the agenda of the DiverCity4 Conference. AGENDA of Conference This entry was posted in News on 7 September 2020 by convention-admin.

‪Pleased to announce that Noha is running a workshop for conference ‘Culture or Policy?’ on opened by Mr Minister of Culture and Sport. Key aim is to start with ‬ as a means of strengthening intercultural connections

MELA Social Enterprise ‪Cymru is very pleased to be working with and to develop policies amplifying the voices of BAME women in Wales.



We have a great team with Tamsin Ramasut, Aisha Ali and myself.‬

Look forward to sharing our findings.

Check out MELA’s policy document on managing gentrification - the urban practice of displacing lower income people and businesses with higher income newcomers leading to segregation and social exclusion.

🏗️ : The urban strategy by which working-class residential neighbourhoods are rehabilitated by middle-class homebuyers, landlords and developers.

w/ MELA latest policy brief and study, here: https://www.coe.int/en/web/interculturalcities/-/gentrification-in-the-intercultural-city-how-to-manage-and-prevent

Here’s MELA’s short presentation on for Urban Design London If of interest:

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Pleased that MELA has just completed a Policy Brief for the Intercultural Cities Network, Council of Europe on ‘Managing Gentrification’. This is part of MELA’s commitment to social and spatial justice.

You can read here:

Gentrification Gentrification is a process through which lower income residents are displaced from the neighbourhood due to an influx of new residents, resulting in a change of character of the neighbourhood. Therefore, gentrification has two key features: displacement, both physical and symbolic and change in soc...

Noha is pleased to have been part of Barton Willmore’s UnCut Podcast Series with Luke Hillson, Head of Barton Willmore Masterplanning, Adam Tranter, Mayor of Cycling in Coventry and Martin Prince-Parrot, Design Manager of Black Swan Property discussing how ‘Working From Home’ has and will change how we design our homes, streets and neighbourhoods. Please listen in if you are interested.

How does design of our homes, streets and places need to evolve? - BARTON WILLMORE: UNCUT. IN CONVERSATION. FINDING A WAY. COVID-19 has been a fast and effective stick for change, and the locus and radius of our lives has rapidly changed and this has had a huge impact on the regard we have for our homes. In this session, we were joined by designers, a social motivator...

The end of a legend campaigning for social justice in the city. Farewell Michael Sorkin. Taken too soon by COVID19.

Obituary: Michael Sorkin, 1948-2020 An architect, author, teacher, and one of the most distinctive voices for social justice and sustainability in design, Sorkin has died at the age of 71 in New York after contracting coronavirus.

Thanks to the for inviting me to host a series of talks on . Here is the 10 minute video of my introduction focusing on .

Creating Neighbourhoods not Housing Estates Dr Noha Nasser is an architect, urban designer and academic with an interest in the influence of culture on urban form and design. She is the Founding Direct...