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SUMMER OF HOPE IS THE NAME WE ARE GIVING TO TWO INVITATION-ONLY EVENTS THAT WILL FOSTER BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ‘VALUE OF PLACE’ POST COVID.

Both events will take as their topic not ‘place’ and ‘togetherness’ as generic, as things to be understood as universally the same, but as concerns that articulate particular connections. Places are always particular as are the people that share those places. Moreover, places are continually changing as are the people within them. Accordingly, Back in Place and Place Transformed will focus on two places both shaped by coastal geographies but different in their human dimensions – in scale, economics and social need. Yet but places are going through radical social, cultural and economic change.

The first is Swansea Bay, where Back in Place will be convened; the second, in February next year, will be in Morecambe Bay, where Place Transformed with be convened. The former is being transformed by investments at the University, in the city itself and through regional funds; the latter is going through similar transformations, exemplified by the ambitions for Eden North.

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An interest in these two places is being led by two innovative research activities: at Swansea University and its advanced Studies Institute, MASI, and at Lancaster University, with its Institute for Social Futures, and in particular its Future Places Centre project. These are jointly supporting for these two events.