The Loneliness Lab was co-founded by Lendlease and Collectively in 2018 to explore the role of urban design and placemaking in tackling loneliness in our cities. The Lab has since grown to a diverse collective of people and organisations who share a mission to design loneliness out of our cities and communities. The network is made up of architects, developers, designers, policymakers, students, artists, activists and community groups, many with lived experience of loneliness. Together they are looking to understand what’s driving loneliness in our cities, experimenting with ideas to improve the spaces and places where we live, work and play and influence change in industry, policy and communities.

Speaker: Bethan Harris (Director of Collectively and Co-founder of the Loneliness Lab)

Bethan Harris is Director of Collectively and co-founder of the Loneliness Lab, a collective of people and organisations working to design out loneliness from our cities. Bethan is passionate about the role of cross sector collaboration and action to address some of the the big issues of our time and will share the approach the Loneliness Lab has taken to unlock collective action on loneliness in the built environment since it launched in 2018.