Webinar Series 2026: Developing a Transforming Homes Design Catalogue to inspire future housing transformations
This webinar focuses on an emerging Design Catalogue for the transformation of 1920-1940 Council built homes. The Catalogue is being co-designed by residents, community groups, local authorities, social housing companies, industry, not-for-profit organisations and academics. Practical and inspirational, the Design Catalogue will guide the user through a range of strategic design approaches and detailed design solutions where spatial and experiential design, and using bio-based, non-extracted materials and operational and embodied carbon are considered.
The webinar offers attendees an insight into alternative approaches to traditional retrofit through transferable design research methods. This includes co-design charrettes with a wide range of stakeholders and a review of emerging transformation strategies, design proposals, and modelling data.
Chair: Dr Steve Coombs, Director of Undergraduate Teaching, Cardiff University
Speakers:
- Laura Brain, Research Associate, Cardiff University
- Dr Chenfei Liu, Research Associate, Cardiff University
- Joel Cady, Research Associate, Cardiff University
The Transforming Homes Webinar Series 2026 was organised by Dr Veronica Albarran Carrillo, Research Associate, Cardiff University.
This research is part of Transforming Housing and Homes for Future Generations project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Green Transitions Ecosystem (GTE) which is part of the UK Research and Innovation – Award References – AH/Y003861/1 and AH/Y003861/2.