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 the first episode of this three-part mini-series, Kuljeet speaks with Dr Ellie Cosgrave and Gaia Crocella from Publica CIC to explore what safety in public spaces really means for women and girls. Moving beyond assumptions, surveillance-led fixes, and design “quick wins,” this conversation unpacks the structural inequalities that shape how public space is experienced differently across gender, age, identity, and context. Ellie and Gaia bring forward a powerful combination of research, data, and lived experience, drawing on feminist urbanism and evidence-based methodologies. Together, they explore the gap between design intent and lived reality, and why meaningful participation is essential for reimagining safer, more equitable spaces.
This episode sets the foundation for the series, highlighting that safety is not merely the absence of harm; it is about freedom, usability, belonging, and visibility.
Find out more about the work Publica CIC does here: Website | Instagram
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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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