http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uken-gbMediaSterling ClickSimple™ http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kevin_Rhowbotham/default.aspx#112http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kevin_Rhowbotham/default.aspx#112 Kevin Rhowbotham is an award-winning international architect, academic, broadcaster and author based in the UK. A Fulbright scholar, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University School of Architecture with a Masters in Architecture, with subsequent Doctoral studies at Cambridge University. His early career in teaching began at the Bartlett. Subsequently he was Visiting Professor of Urban Design at the Technical University Berlin in 1995 and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Urban Desi ...Tue, 04 May 2010 13:49:32 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tom_Hayhoe/default.aspx#93http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tom_Hayhoe/default.aspx#93 Tom Hayhoe is an associate consultant with Cornerstone. He received an MBA from Stanford before spending five years with strategic consultants McKinsey. He then worked for W H Smith as head of planning and as merchandise director for stationery and cards at W H Smith Retail. He subsequently worked as a project manager and consultant in retailing, consumer goods, distribution, business services and media, operating across all functions. Within the commercial sector, Tom's professional interests ...Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:36:58 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Phil_Kirby/default.aspx#115http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Phil_Kirby/default.aspx#115 Phil Kirby has never had a proper job. Until his mid-twenties he was a full-time political activist campaigning for the likes of Anti-Apartheid, Youth CND, The Right to Work Campaign, and The Anti-Nazi League. He says he's never been so busy since. After University he became a volunteer for several mental health charities where he did everything from wiping bottoms and mopping vomit to handing out powerful neuro-toxic, anti-psychotic medications to his long suffering clients with absolutely no ...Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:12:42 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/David_Papadopolous/default.aspx#108http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/David_Papadopolous/default.aspx#108 David Papadopoulos manages a distinctive mix of activities that relate people, landscape and technology, based on his formal training in the social sciences, landscape architecture, and computer science. He combines an educator s interest in people and skills development with an engineer's concern for process and focus on getting things done. David also maintains an active interest in the art of repurposing materials and technology for personal and community benefit. A tutor in human geography ...Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:05:13 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/default.aspx#110http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/default.aspx#110 draw out user needs and motivations, through bespoke community brainstorming challenge prevailing views, by introducing alternative viewpoints, future trends and best practice forge llinks between local communities, landowners, investors and developers, to find the common ground highlight unsung assets, and uncover new opportunities create innovative infrastructures, amenities and brands, with pride and clout weave regeneration stories, to build lasting buy-in. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:01:45 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Ana_Godinho_de_Matos_/default.aspx#113http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Ana_Godinho_de_Matos_/default.aspx#113 With degrees in journalism and anthropology cultural politics, Ana has turned her considerable interest in people towards filmmaking. She specialises in three areas: the anthropological narrative of documentary, creative arts films, and short promotional films primarily for cultural and other organisations. As well as practising film production, Ana also teaches it most recently to a group of young adults in Valencia, as part of the EC s Leonardo da Vinci programme. Credits and clients include ...Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:52:47 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/default.aspx#50http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/default.aspx#50 Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Blackpool Festival of Light BOP Consulting City Fringe Partnership City of Durham Council Design Council Dott07 DSC, Egypt Durham City Partnership Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company London Development Agency The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement One NorthEast River Wear Necklace Park Sainsbury's University of Durham Watford Borough Council Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:27:40 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Enabling_Partnerships-_I/default.aspx#40http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Enabling_Partnerships-_I/default.aspx#40 Client City of Durham Council Brief We have agreed on an ambitious new vision for Durham, which will require major changes to the ways we manage and promote our city. What can we learn from other places? Approach We initially compiled a long-list of 12 benchmark locations across the UK. These were narrowed down to five best practice cities - Bath, Chester, Norwich, Lincoln and Stirling - selected for their innovation and excellence in regeneration, town centre management, events, markets, enter ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:22 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Developing_Concepts-_I/Developing_Concepts-_II/default.aspx#39http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Developing_Concepts-_I/Developing_Concepts-_II/default.aspx#39 Client An Asian retailer with global ambitions Brief Our vision is to launch a new department store in the Middle Eastern market, starting with Dubai. The store will be bigger and better than anything seen before. Is this a real opportunity, or a mirage? Approach Working with sister-company The Chambers , we explored the idea from many different angles. Who is the target customer and what are their needs? What is the economic and political outlook for the Dubai market? How big a store is needed ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:33:55 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Developing_Concepts-_I/default.aspx#38http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Developing_Concepts-_I/default.aspx#38 Client The Necklace Park on the River Wear Brief We want to make better use of our river and countryside, and take pressure off a fragile area in our historic city. How do we do this with little impact, while at the same time bringing all ages and communities together? Approach We researched best practice in community parks, and then carried out field visits and creative workshops with groups of local people with widely varying interests. This led to our scoping the possibility of a low impact ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:33:09 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Creating_Visions-_I/default.aspx#34http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/Projects/Creating_Visions-_I/default.aspx#34 Client Durham City Partnership Brief The historic city of Durham, a World Heritage Site encircled by former mining villages, has a rich mix of communities but no clear economic way forward into the 21st century. How do we build a new vision for our city that everyone can engage with? Approach We worked on the assumption that the people of Durham themselves - never known for holding back- would help us find the best answers for their own future. Balancing the city s economic, heritage and topogr ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:32:08 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/__Michelle_Duxbury/default.aspx#116http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/__Michelle_Duxbury/default.aspx#116 Michelle Duxbury is deeply in love with the following things: americana, burlesque, craft, drawing and embroidery and the fifties. So far, so alphabetical but all joking aside these are the passions that fuel her life. So much so, that at some point during the last decade she took a deep breath and jumped off the old corporate ladder, waving an exuberant farewell to her proper grown up job in research development as she fell to the ground with a bang. From that point on Michelle has immersed he ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:29:23 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kate_Oakley/default.aspx#102http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Kate_Oakley/default.aspx#102 Kate Oakley is a writer and policy analyst, specialising in the knowledge economy, the creative industries and regional development. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, where she recently spent a semester teaching on the Master of Creative Industries course. While in Australia, she completed a national series of policy Masterclasses on Building Creative Regions . The workshops explored the issues of creative industry developmen ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:28:40 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Howard_Williamson/default.aspx#100http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Howard_Williamson/default.aspx#100 Dr Howard Williamson is Professor of European Youth Policy in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. He previous worked at the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Copenhagen, as well as being a practising youth worker for over 20 years. He has contributed to youth policy development in Wales, the UK and across the countries of the European Union and the Council of Europe. He is currently a member of the Youth Justice Board. He has pu ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:28:15 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tim_Marshall/default.aspx#114http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tim_Marshall/default.aspx#114 Based in historic market town Saffron Walden, Tim Marshall has practiced as a commercial interior designer for the past eleven years across various contexts and in particular with listed and historical environments. He joins Cornerstone in their commitment to place-making and the celebration of usership, and the value this brings to cultural regeneration. This sense of place includes the interiors of bars and restaurants, hotels, offices, university colleges, retail premises and commercial kitc ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:26:01 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Alex_McKie/default.aspx#104http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Alex_McKie/default.aspx#104 Alex McKie works as an agent of change helping organisations to adapt to the changes and challenges of the future. This covers writing on future trends, market and social research, scenario planning, workshop moderation and strategy development. Alex was responsible for the Henley Centre's European consumer research and futures programme - Frontiers: Planning for Consumer Change in Europe - identifying future trends and implications for business. She spent 16 years in advertising as a strategic ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:25:30 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/John_Jennings/default.aspx#98http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/John_Jennings/default.aspx#98 John Jennings is a director of Cornerstone. He has a successful record of working on both strategic policies and project work. Until 2005 he was Executive Director for Environmental Services at Durham City Council . In this capacity he was responsible for the Durham Millennium City Project, a 30m cultural regeneration for the City, a multiple award-winning scheme including the Civic Trust 2003. This was followed by the Heart of the City Development Framework , which to date has attracted some 3 ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:24:55 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tamar_Kasriel/default.aspx#103http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Tamar_Kasriel/default.aspx#103 Tamar Kasriel is a leading futurist, focusing on consumer and social trends. She recently founded a consultancy, Futureal, which specialises in helping companies understand and capitalise on the impacts of future consumer and market changes on their businesses. Prior to this she spent ten years at The Henley Centre, rising to become a Director and Head of Knowledge Venturing, where she honed her skills in the development of inspiring, agenda setting global consumer insight. Tamar has extensive ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:24:00 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Martin_Hulse/default.aspx#106http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Martin_Hulse/default.aspx#106 Martin Hulse is an associate consultant with Cornerstone. For the past seven years he has been working at the heart of physical development projects ensuring a commitment to design quality and sustainability. Initially this was from the point of view of the third sector where he was the Director of the Cockburn Association (The Edinburgh Civic Trust). To undertake the role of watchdog he operated a design review panel and worked closely with developers, architects, politicians and the local aut ...Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:23:34 GMThttp://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Anna_Frisch/default.aspx#111http://www.cornerstonestrategies.co.uk/Home/People/Associates/Anna_Frisch/default.aspx#111 Jaywalking through my professional life and my education, starting with theatre design (Berlin and New York), interior architecture (no soft furnishings just hard space), back to theatre, now writing, directing and producing, and a small portion of audio installations, curating, project managing and consultancy, the common denominator remains throughout my interest in the narrative of space. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:22:07 GMT