Episode 11: Belonging, placemaking and healthy people, places and planet

In this episode of The Belonging Shift, Mantej Singh speaks with Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and Creative Director of Villagewell, about how placemaking can help create belonging in a time of social, economic and climate disruption. Gilbert shares why communities need agency, why public gathering places matter, and why future cities must be designed around people, culture, connection and regeneration. The conversation explores the new local, culturally diverse neighbourhoods, creative bureaucracy, developer and government responsibility, and the shifts needed to build healthy people, healthy places and a healthy planet.