Clerkenwell is home to more creative businesses and architects per square mile than anywhere else on the planet, making it truly one of the most important design hubs in the world.

To celebrate this rich and diverse community, Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) has created a showcase of leading UK and international brands and companies presented in a series of showroom events, exhibitions and special installations that take place across the area.

Celebrating its 11th year in May 2020 (19th-21st) the award-winning CDW has firmly established itself as the UK’s leading independent design festival and annually attracts the international design community to this small area of London for three days of exciting events.

In 2019, the design community flocked to Clerkenwell with 34,185 attendees and over 300 exhibiting brands.

Antony Goodey is the Show Manager for Clerkenwell Design Week, as well as for 100% Design.

Alex Howard is Head of Sales for Clerkenwell Design Week, and Divisional Brand Manager at Media 10 Ltd.

About Michael Wilson 

Michael is a journalist, broadcaster, and British TV’s longest-serving Business and Economics Editor. He has anchored nearly all Sky’s coverage of major business and financial news – giving quick, accurate on the spot analysis from budgets to the crises of booms and busts. Michael joined Sky Television at its inception in 1989. In 1992, he left to present GMTV’s early morning news and business hour.

He then returned to Sky as Business and Economics Editor in 1995, and launched Sky Business Report, the news channel’s then daily evening money programme. He has also written for national newspapers and his reports have been taken and watched worldwide.

About the Midtown Big Ideas Exchange 

BEE Midtown is the Business Improvement District (BID) for Holborn, Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, Farringdon and St Giles – London’s Midtown. Its annual Big Ideas Exchange is a dynamic programme of debates, workshops, content and thought leadership about the future of work. The programme for 2019/2020 is grounded in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) – these are a set of targets agreed by the UN in 2015.

BEE Midtown has identified four SDGs where it believes Midtown businesses can have the biggest impact – Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10); Sustainable Cities And Communities (SDG 11); Responsible Consumption And Production (SDG 12); and Partnerships For The Goals (SDG 17). 

This podcast covers some of the issues and themes that come within all four of these SDGs. 

More information can be found at www.bee-midtown.com/mbie. 

Tony Langham co-founded Lansons in 1989 and has advised Governments, organisations and companies on their image and reputation for over 30 years. He is Chief Executive and retains an active consultancy role across a range of Lansons clients. His work is split between building reputations for organisations growing rapidly in the market and protecting the reputations of those with a leading position to maintain. His specialisms include launches, M&A, IPOs and crisis and issues management. He also advises Prime Ministers, Chairs and CEOs on personal reputation.

His first book, Reputation Management: The Future of Corporate Communications and Public Relations, was commissioned by the Public Relations & Communications Association (PRCA) and the International Communications Consultancy Organisation and was published by Emerald Publishing in 2018.

Tony has received three awards from the PRCA celebrating ‘lifetime achievement’ and contribution to the UK PR industry, in 2004, 2016 and 2019. He is regularly cited as one of the most influential PR people in the UK by industry publications.

Prior to co-founding Lansons he worked in financial communications with Dewe Rogerson in the 1980s. He began his career as a social, political and financial market researcher with MORI. 

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Lansons

Lansons is a strategic reputation management consultancy, acting as trusted advisers to organisations across the world. A partnership, with offices in London and New York, it offers expertise across customer, financial, policy, employee and media engagement to help build and protect reputations from the inside out, in ways that are authentic and purposeful.

Lansons is made up of 64% women and 36% men; a split that is reflected in both the management team and ownership structure. Lansons does not have a gender pay gap.

Lansons has appeared in the top 50 ‘Best Places to Work’ (Great Places to Work Institute) for 14 years running and has been named Workplace Champion and Ethical Champion by the industry body, the PRCA.

Michael Wilson

Michael is a journalist, broadcaster, and British TV’s longest-serving Business and Economics Editor. He has anchored Sky’s coverage of major business and financial news – giving quick, accurate on the spot analysis from budgets to the crises of booms and busts. Michael joined Sky Television at its inception in 1989. In 1992, he left to present GMTV’s early morning news and business hour.

He then returned to Sky as Business and Economics Editor in 1995, and launched Sky Business Report, the news channel’s then daily evening money programme. He has also written for national newspapers and his reports have been taken and watched worldwide.

The Midtown Big Ideas Exchange

BEE Midtown is the Business Improvement District (BID) for Holborn, Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, Farringdon and St Giles – London’s Midtown. Its annual Big Ideas Exchange is a dynamic programme of debates, workshops, content and thought leadership about the future of work. The programme for 2019/2020 is grounded in a selection of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) – these are a set of targets agreed by the UN in 2015.

BEE Midtown has identified four SDGs where it believes Midtown businesses can have the biggest impact – Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10); Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11); Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12); and Partnerships For The Goals (SDG 17).

This podcast covers some of the issues and themes that are embedded within SDG 10. 

More information can be found at www.bee-midtown.com/mbie. 

• Peter Murray is Chairman of New London Architecture

• Peter trained as an architect but has spent most of his career writing about and commenting on architecture rather than practising it.

• He studied at Bristol University and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square.

• He edited the weekly newspaper for architects,Building Design, before moving on to the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal.

• Peter curated a number of major exhibitions at the Royal Academy including the 1986 New Architecture: the work of Foster, Rogers, Stirling, and Living Bridges in 1996.

• He founded the design and architecture magazine Blueprint and the global communications company Word Search which specialises in design and branding for architecture and real estate.

• He started the London Festival of Architecture which began life as the Clerkenwell Architecture Biennale in 2004.

NEW LONDON ARCHITECTURE

• The New London Architecture centre was founded in 2005 as a centre for debate and discussion about the changing face of the capital.

• The centre has a large-scale model of London and permanent exhibitions about the future of London. It is also involved in research into the built environment.

• Based in Midtown, the NLA has established itself over the last decade as a broker between all those involved in planning and designing the future of London and an influential promoter of positive physical change.

The MIDTOWN BIG IDEAS EXCHANGE

• BEE Midtown is the Business Improvement District (BID) for Holborn, Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, Farringdon and St Giles – London’s Midtown
• Its annual Big Ideas Exchange is a dynamic programme of debates, workshops, content and thought leadership about the future of work
• Our programme for 2019/2020 is grounded in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”) – these are a set of targets agreed by the UN in 2015.
• We have identified four where we believe Midtown businesses can have the biggest impact – Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10); Sustainable Cities And Communities (SDG 11); Responsible Consumption And Production (SDG 12); and Partnerships For The Goals (SDG 17).
• More information can be found at www.bee-midtown.com/mbie

EPISODE CONTENT

• Podcast 1 defines what it is to be a sustainable city
• The New London Plan, and the obligation to ‘green’ buildings is discussed
• Areas of Midtown, from Lincoln’s Inn Field to the Bourne Estate are cited
• We look at how we are changing the way we use our streets
• The successful insertion of new buildings into historic locations is examined
• Key buildings, such as MidCity Place, are highlighted
• The economic benefits of designing and building sustainably are also discussed.