This panel discussion will explore how the Built to Rent, workplace, retail and hospitality sectors can work together to create resilient, vibrant and inclusive urban environments. From long-term investment strategies to placemaking, social infrastructure and everyday lived experience, we’ll examine what joined-up regeneration really looks like in practice.
With a subtle but important lens on the Feminist City and the creation of inclusive, people-first communities, the conversation will challenge traditional approaches to urban development and ask how design, policy and commercial realities can better serve everyone who uses our city centres - not just those who invest in them.
Filmed live and in person at the #DesignPopUp Glasgow exhibition in the beautiful Il Salotto, 20 Bell Street, Glasgow
The Panel
Gina Colley
Architect / Associate Director,
Threesixty Architecture
Gina Colley is an architect at Threesixty Architecture, working across town and city-centre masterplanning and retrofit projects throughout the UK. Her practice is rooted in meaningful community engagement, ensuring a genuinely people-first approach to the design of urban environments.
Gina has a particular interest in accessible and inclusive design, with experience spanning homes, education, workplaces and community spaces. She is a strong advocate for the Feminist City, and currently sits on the Glasgow Urban Design Panel, championing more equitable, inclusive and socially responsive urban development.
Alongside her professional practice, Gina actively contributes to sector-wide change as a member of the Revo Women and Girls Working Group and the Revo Hub Committee, and previously as part of the BE-ST Built Environment Change Makers, the BCO Urban Affairs Group, and the Young Urbanists.
Peter Kerr
Director, Cameron Kerr
Peter is a co-Founder and Director at Cameron Kerr, where he has spent many years working across commercial, residential and mixed-use developments, with a strong focus on sustainability, retrofit and building performance. His work spans feasibility, design strategy and delivery, helping clients future-proof assets while responding to evolving environmental, social and economic pressures.
Peter is particularly engaged in conversations around the future of city centres and workplaces, exploring how buildings can better support occupiers, communities and long-term value. He is an active member of BCO Scotland, contributing to industry thinking on office design, urban regeneration and the changing role of the workplace within our cities.
Angela Higgins
Founder, Resonance Capital
Angela is a Director at Resonance, where she works at the intersection of finance, development and placemaking to deliver socially and economically sustainable urban regeneration. Her role focuses on shaping funding and investment models that support long-term, community-led outcomes, particularly within mixed-use and city-centre regeneration projects.
With a strong interest in inclusive growth, Angela advocates for development approaches that prioritise people, purpose and place alongside commercial viability. Her work spans the Built to Rent, workspace and community sectors, exploring how collaboration between public and private partners can unlock regeneration that is equitable, resilient and rooted in local need.
Bruce Patrick
Director, Math Real Estate
Bruce is a mixed-use and placemaking specialist at Math Real Estate, with extensive experience advising on the repositioning and regeneration of town and city centres across the UK. His work focuses on helping places adapt to changing patterns of living, working and consuming, with a particular emphasis on retail, leisure and hospitality-led regeneration.
Bruce is known for his people-centred approach to placemaking, advocating for diverse, experience-led destinations that support local economies and communities. He regularly contributes to national conversations on the future of high streets and city centres, exploring how collaboration across sectors can create more resilient, inclusive and economically sustainable urban environments.
Lisa Blyth
Associate, 7N Architects
Lisa Blyth is an associate architect and founding member of 7N Architects, with experience spanning master-planning and urban design, large-scale mixed-use and residential developments, and community and stakeholder engagement.
She has a particular interest in developing place-based strategies that enhance everyday human experience and support
sustainability in its broadest sense.
Throughout her career, she has worked on projects that embed this thinking, including urban public space strategies, 20 minute neighbourhood master-planning, community-led forward planning and regeneration strategies. She is committed to harnessing the collective energy of diverse stakeholders to deliver positive, lasting outcomes.
Lisa has worked with a wide range of public and private sector clients and brings particular value to projects that require complex considerations to be distilled into clear design priorities, aligned with stakeholder aspirations and grounded in deliverability.
Panel Chair
Sara Seravalli
Founder, Il Salotto
Sara is the founder of #DesignPopUp and Il Salotto.
A recognised connector across the built environment, she brings together architects, developers, manufacturers and city-makers through curated events, conversations and storytelling.
Sara will chair the discussion, guiding a lively, people-focused conversation on collaboration, inclusion and the future of our city centres.
A panel discussion at #DesignPopUp Glasgow
Urban Regeneration:
Building Inclusive City Centres