Massive Small Stories

Kelvin Campbell and Liam Black talk to Jonathan Smales, executive chairman at Human Nature (Places), a unique development company that is crafting, prototyping, building and learning from work on urban blocks, mixed-use buildings, street types, landscape treatments, energy and mobility systems. Jonathan was MD of Greenpeace (UK), a sustainability advisor to the government, and developed some...

Kelvin Campbell talks to Darshana Gothi Chauhan, founder and CEO of Co-Plug, - architect, urban designer and urban data analytics expert with 14 years of experience of working in the public, private and academic sector linked to the planning and designing of cities.  Darshana founded the DesTech Challenge, a unique design and tech competition that brings together creative thinking and digital...

Kelvin Campbell and Isaac Barbosa talk to Jason Roberts, founder of the Better Block, artist, civic activist, and urban designer whose life’s work has been dedicated to the creation of healthy, vibrant, and sustainable neighbourhoods.  Jason organized a series of Better Block projects, taking blighted blocks with vacant properties in Dallas and converting them into temporary, walkable distric...

Kelvin Campbell and Richard Ingleton talk to Yolande Barnes - researcher, commentator and consultant - Professor at the new Bartlett Real Estate Institute (University College London) - looking at the social, environmental and economic value of the built environment.    Yolande’s job is thinking things about real estate that most people in the industry aren't thinking - yet. She has studi...

Jeff is the founder of the civic pride consulting firm, Revitalize, or Die, and author of ‘Your City is Sick: How we can improve the economic, social, mental and physical health of millions by treating our cities like people’. After obtaining his Masters in Urban Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University, Jeff went to work on Main Street. First as a downtown manager, and later as the Ohio Mai...

Mehaffy is the author of Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance . [2]  The book explores the ideas behind the United Nations’ “New Urban Agenda” to which Mehaffy contributed as a consultant to UN-Habitat. [3]   He is also co-author, with  Nikos Salingaros , of the 2014 book  Design for a Living Planet , [4]  a critique o...

Euan Mills was Head of Digital Planning at Connected Places Catapult where he led a programme of work looking at how new technology can help us plan cities better. His background before this includes 16 years working in the built environment industry. Six of these were spent providing design advice to the Mayor of London and his planning team, contributing towards a number of key planning policy a...

Kelvin Campbell and Liam Black talk to Ruth Ibegbuna, the Founder of RECLAIM, The Roots Programme and the Rekindle School. Ruth is a bold and pioneering CEO, with a relentless focus on working side by side with young people to build a fairer future. She is an expert in encouraging young people to believe in their inherent abilities and to demand the best for themselves and their lives. Ruth was li...

As one of the world's leading experts on fragile states, societies, communities, and neighbourhoods, Seth seeks fresh ideas to repair our fragile places. By focusing on improving the underlying social dynamics – social relationships, social capital, and social institutions – he has been effective at advancing conflict resolution, navigating political transitions, community building, and improving...

Kelvin Campbell and Liam Black talk to Maff Potts, the self-confessed nuisance, jazz musician and Director at Association of Camerados, the public living room people who get together and get each other through tough times. Not to be missed.

Driven by social purpose and the pursuit of fairness, Liam Black talks of his upbringing, influences and path to the cause of social enterprise.

Case-hardened, but still a rational optimist and terminal idealist, Kelvin talks of his later experiences in developing Massive Small theory.

A terminal idealist driven by doing the right thing, Kelvin talks of his early experiences in housing, urbanism and informal settlements that shaped his thinking in later life.

Massive Small Stories presents lessons from all over the world, amplifying how amazing people have done amazing things in their careers. It will seek to show how people and governments can work together, enabling communities to shape their own environments in such a way that none of them could have achieved alone.