EcoResponsive Environments (PDF)

neighbourhood; and public realm regeneration strategy for two council-owned housing estates in Tower Hamlets, London. The Heath Park masterplan won the National Urban Design Award 2023 in 'Small/mid-scale masterplan' category; Pineapple Award 2022 in 'Future Place' category; and was recognised by the UK Government as one of 35 'Green Innovation' schemes in 2021.

Since 2017, he has been teaching on the BA and MA Urban Design courses at Oxford Brookes University. He is also a visual artist and has undertaken several exhibitions and illustration of books.

Sue McGlynn is an urban designer whose career has merged practice, teaching and research in settlement design.

Well-known as a presenter and author, Sue has taken a lead role in many national design training initiatives, such as the roll-out for Design Council Cabe's Design Codes pilot projects, DfT's Manual for Streets and Homes England/ Design for Homes' Building for Life. Since 2006 she has been an independent consultant, with much of her work involving design review and enquiry-by-design workshops for masterplans and design codes of major new settlements and garden villages.

Previously, Sue worked for many years at the Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University. With Ian Bentley and colleagues at the Joint Centre, she co-authored the seminal urban design text Responsive Environments: A manual for designers. Sue was a founding co-editor of the journal URBAN DESIGN International and more recently has contributed to Building for a Healthy Life, a housing and neighbourhood assessment guide sponsored by Homes England, the NHS and Design for Homes. Sue's contribution to urban design has been recognized by the Urban Design Group with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Prachi Rampuria is passionate about places and place-making. She studied architecture in India, followed by a Masters in Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University. Early career influences include being trained at Sangath; studio of the Pritzker-prize and RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner architect B.V. Doshi.

As an urban designer, she has led multi-disciplinary teams on complex masterplanning and urban regeneration projects of diverse scales and typologies in the UK, Middle-East and India. Her interest lies in developing a transdisciplinary multi-scalar design approach; from strategic master planning down to the sensory manifestation of materiality in contemporary yet locally-distinctive ways, optimally balancing the long-term environmental and social values with short-term financial value.

In 2018, with Soham De, she co-founded the award-winning London-based design practice EcoResponsive Environments, best known for innovation in sustainable urbanism and architectural design. She teaches at Oxford Brookes University's MA in Urban Design course as an Associate Lecturer. She also sits on the Design South East, Harlow & Gilston Garden Town and Taunton & Somerset West Quality Review Panels.