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Mæ Associate Payal Ceurvels has been invited to join the judging panel for this year's 'Inside Housing Development Awards'.

The Inside Housing Development Awards celebrate the UK’s most outstanding residential developments over the past year, highlighting the innovation and resilience driving the sector forward. With governments across the UK focused on increasing delivery, the Inside Housing Development Awards flag the schemes and teams crucial to success: delivering quality, sustainable housing and transforming communities.

Director Alex Ely will be speaking at the 'Sustainable Development X Urban Conservation' conference on Thursday 27th March. The event will explore innovative and practical approaches which demonstrate how urban conservation and sustainable development can work in harmony to improve places for people and planet.

Sustainable development and the need for growth need practical reconciliation. Conservation and responsible management must be balanced against affordability, and the ongoing requirements of growth and renewal. Alex will explore how doughnut economy principles can align with urban development.

Mæ Associate Nadine Wagner will be participating in the KADSA lecture series. The Kent Architecture and Design Student Association is the official student organisation from the Kent School of Architecture. Throughout the year KADSA organise speakers from diverse backgrounds and experiences to complement the school's weekly lecture series: Aiming to inspire all students by showcasing the work and success of carefully selected speakers.

Nadine will speak about her work delivering some of our award winning, low carbon, and environmentally driven projects and creating resilient architecture.

Alex Ely will be joining a roundtable debate as part of the exhibition 'Housing Standardisation: Who Designs Our Homes and How Do We Live?' at the Building Centre. The exhibition explores recently built housing in England, Chile, China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain, analysing their diverse housing systems and provisions through 37 in-depth case studies of affordable homes. It focuses on the experiences and everyday lives of residents, examining how design governance, housing standards, socio-cultural expectation, and home use shape perceptions of ‘well-designed’ and ‘affordable’ homes – and how these are highly contextual.

Founder Director Alex Ely will be giving a keynote lecture to kick-off the annual MArch Jury Week, which marks the culmination of six of the Taught Postgraduate Programmes. The talk will follow the Housing and Urbanism MArch jury at 6.30pm on Monday 6th January 2025. Titled Spatial systems for society the lecture will explore spatial systems at different scales, from the city as ecosystem to the cellular structure of the home as explored in the work of Mæ. The talk is available to view here.