About:I am a designer specialising in co-producing projects with individuals and communities across urban design, regeneration and planning. My work centres on developing design frameworks, vision documents, and spatial and strategic plans shaped collaboratively with the people they most affect. I use creative, participatory tools to build common ground and help groups reach shared understanding and consensus. I work within place-shaping teams and am currently collaborating with Future of London and Archio to co-design retrofit strategies for Westminster City Council. I am also working with Queen Mary University of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the design of inclusive green spaces. Previous work includes This Is For The Majority, an evidence base and design guide for inclusion in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets – and my role as lead author for the Winchester Vision 2020–2030. I also developed Future Stories, a highly participative placemaking and spatial design strategy that explored new ways to reimagine town centres with people, ecology and culture at the forefront. I bring experience across public, academic and private sectors, and I am a Public Practice alum and RTPI Woman of Influence 2023 & 2025 and Industry Patron on the Landscape Architecture MA at AUB. Teaching: Chelsea College of Art, UAL 2010-2020, Ba Fine Art and Graduate Diploma teaching studio practice and theory. Arts University Bournemouth 2013-2025 Visiting tutor on M.Arch & Landscape Architecture. |
BIOG:Jennie Savage is an expert in engaging individuals and communities, co-producing design frameworks, vision documents, spatial and strategic plans in consultation with those who will be affected. She is sensitive to everyone’s views, holding space for multiple perspectives and finding common ground from which to design workable solutions. Jennie works as part of places shaping teams and leads engagement and research projects including ‘This Is For The Majority’, an evidence base & design guidance for gender inclusion in London Borough Tower Hamlets and ‘Future Stories’, a highly consultative placemaking and spatial design strategy, which showed how to reimagine our town centres, putting people and culture at their heart. Jennie is a public practice alum and RTPI Woman Of Influence. Recent conferences‘Inclusive cities shaped by all’ Equlibium Network July 2025 Public urban design and planning documents (selected):As Public Realm Project Officer at London Borough of Tower Hamlets I wrote, ‘This Is For The Majority’ design guidance on gender inclusion in the borough.
Publications:Nutopia: A critical view of future cities, co-editied, Jennie Savage/ Malcolm Miles, Pub University Plymouth Press 2011 Concrete A Users Manual, Jennie Savage & James Tyson 2008 STAR: A Psychotopography Of Place, Jennie Savage, Pub CBAT 2006
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