Those who perpetuate hate crimes attack people for being different, so can we design public spaces that make marginalised groups safer by making them less visible? Professor Pippa Catterall discusses the problem of violent attacks for the LGBTQ+ community and explains why a large echoey open public square can be a deeply uncomfortable space where individuals are easily targeted. What makes us stand out in public space, who does the looking, and what design features could make our cities more tolerant of difference?

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As a maverick serial entrepreneur behind tech and innovation clusters including Canary Wharf's Level39 and the Olympic Park's Plexal, Claire Cockerton knows what kind of office environment helps start-ups thrive and grow. But in the post-Covid environment, she believes our approach to office space is changing - and to attract and support female founders, the attitude on site in tech clusters must change too.

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With 80% of youth spaces occupied by boys, how can we create parks, play equipment and public spaces where young women and girls feel safe and that they belong? We talk to Make Space for Girls, a campaigning charity set up by author and TV producer Susannah Walker and lawyer Imogen Clark, who argue that providing public space for girls is more than an ideal, it's a legal requirement under the Equality Act 2010

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"We need to understand why places are poor, why people have fewer life choices, why their health is poorer... all major factors in place-based inequality," says Andrew Westwood, Vice Dean for Social Responsibility at the University of Manchester and commissioner on the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission. In this podcast, we discuss how England is the most unequal country in the OECD, about the impact of racial, class and place-based inequality, and the commission's radical ideas on how to bridge the gap between the richest and the poorest in Greater Manchester. The commission's report reads: "The vision we describe is not utopia and not a pipe dream. Everything we describe is already happening somewhere."

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Imagine adding a few trees to your street, a public space, a few benches, maybe a bike rack. You may find it easy to envision your urban transformation, or at least know who to call to make that sketch. But how can the average citizen participate in the design process? That’s the question Ascha Lychett Pedersen is answering with her big app idea, Wild Streets. A macroeconomist and UN sustainability specialist, Lychett Pedersen, CEO of Wild Streets, had been working for the UN for a decade when she got the idea that would become Wild Streets. This podcast is sponsored by IE University School of Architecture and Design

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Going circular in construction is not just about saving the planet, it also saves on the bottom line, given the growing cost of waste disposal and the hidden costs of over-ordering in construction. In this podcast, May Al-Karooni, the inspirational founder and CEO of Globechain, talks about how she spotted the need for a reuse marketplace and sold the idea of circularity to the construction and built environment industry. Globechain diverts construction waste from retail and commercial refurbishments and gives them to charities as raw materials.

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Small post-industrial cities have walkable downtowns, affordable housing and the opportunity to become post-Covid places we want to be. But how can they avoid gentrification while attracting investment? Reif Larsen, founder of the Future of Small Cities Institute talks cars, resources and political influence. This podcast is supported by IE University School of Architecture and Design

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"Built spaces are important signifiers to outsiders, and people in power like to think that what they don't see, doesn't exist," says Dr Omeasoo Wahpasiw in this podcast from her popular talk at the Festival of Place. Wahpasiw is Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education, and has written about Indigenous feminism and about how Indigenous design-thinking can inform architecture in a 'new-old' way. Wahpasiw is a policy analyst, facilitator and presenter on Indigenous historical issues, and has worked with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations. In this podcast she talks about the links between identity and place, and how "identity building spaces" determine how we live our lives

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Find out more about the new part-time Global Master in Real Estate Development at IE University. "If you are passionate about real estate, if you're a city-maker, this part-time programme is for you. Just log in from wherever you are around the globe on Saturday afternoon." Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design tells The Developer all about it in this sponsored podcast. Check out their Woman Scholarship for up to 25% off tuition fees.

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When they started Capital & Centric, they wanted to create award-winning architecture, says co-founder Adam Higgins. Ten years on, it’s about more than that. It's about doing something for the people who don't live in the buildings. Higgins talks working with "ugly" buildings, the barriers to lush landscape architecture, and about the Dutch and Scandi influences behind their Kampus development in Manchester. This podcast is sponsored by the Global Master in Real Estate Development at IE University

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