Festival of Place 2025
Wednesday, 02 Jul 2025
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM GMT
Boxpark Wembley, LondonThe Festival of Place 2025 tickets are on sale now
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what is Festival of Place?
The Festival of Place unites professionals working on urban places and mixed-use property to address the biggest challenges facing UK towns and cities. It’s a space for bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and honest conversations.
- 2 July 2025, Boxpark Wembley
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Agenda themes confirmed include urban health and place-led impact investment, with more to be announced
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Programme of talks on four stages, the festival will again feature workshops, walking tours and fishbowls
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Ticket includes access to all talks and events, all day refreshments, lunch and evening drink reception
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Join an audience of over 600 pan-industry professionals, with an emphasis on learning and making connections
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The most cost effective way to bring your team is to join as organisation members. For more information on benefits contact james@thedeveloper.live
why attend?
inspiring content
Our speakers attract developers, policymakers and designers from the public and private sector who want to learn. We invite academics and experts, as well as industry leaders, to share their insights and answer questions you’re already asking or need to consider. It’s our content that brings together likeminded professionals who care about doing property differently to benefit people and planet. This isn’t a catch-all event for the whole property industry, it’s for a growing community of professionals in real estate and design looking for collaborators so we can change the way we do placemaking.
amazing facilitators
We make it easier to network and build professional relationships by creating an environment where it’s safe to ask questions, encouraging serendipity in the spaces between the sessions, and unique experiences such as workshops and walking tours where you’re encouraged to chat and work together. To do this, we use expert chairs and convenors who will facilitate deeper thought and bring people together. We believe great hosts are essential to meaningful gatherings
shape your learning
Our content is ideal for fulfilling your professional CPD requirements on topics that range from high streets to sustainability. You can self-direct your day of groundbreaking experiences across several stages, with workshops and walking tours included as well as a delicious lunch, drinks reception, axe-throwing and pop golf, making this an inspiring day out for the whole team.
festival atmosphere
It’s not just a name, we call it a festival because it has multiple stages and overlapping streams of content so that you can move in and out of sessions and shape your own day. That means you will meet more people and take a more active role in making this experience work for you. It also means less of a crush for coffee and a more relaxed atmosphere, which we have on tap all day.the spaces between the sessions. When we conceived of the festival, we talked a lot about how the most memorable and best part of a conference is having a great conversation over coffee or lunch between sessions, so we’ve designed the whole experience to make this happen. The speakers and fringe events should give you plenty to talk about. The space will bring you together. The rest is up to you.
“Genuinely vibrant, exciting and thought-provoking” Nigel Brewer, planning and design director, Places for People
“Refreshing”
Darren Comber, Chief Executive, Scott Brownrigg
Festival of Place 2019
Shortlisted for Event of the Year 2019, IBP Media Awards
Become an organisation member
With membership you receive in-person tickets and unlimited access to all Festival of Place digital events, including Climate Resilience and Social Impact. You also gain access for your whole organisation to our library of past talks, all proud supporter benefits with The Developer, plus exclusive content and promotions.
If you’re looking for a creative and uncommonly interesting way to get involved with our events, or would like to enquire about membership please get in touch with james@thedeveloper.live
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