We’re excited to announce our first panel topic for #Bloom2025 – Creative Placemaking: People, Places and Possibility, sponsored by Civic Engineers.
This panel will be a vibrant conversation about placemaking, planning and purpose-driven communities. How do we create strong and resilient communities to drive growth, support business, local ecosystems and create opportunity? How can organisations best collaborate, cluster and thrive? How can placemaking develop communities and leave room for genuine creativity? How do you incorporate uniqueness and creativity into a place to help make it thrive and, most importantly, engage people? And who decides what a place should be?
Our panel of experts will explore these questions with insights, examples, and cautionary tales. It’s a must-attend conversation for placemakers, architects, community leaders, policymakers, and businesses ready to thrive in a like-minded cluster.

Join us at Bloom to dive into these critical creative placemaking conversations and shape the future of our places.
Speakers:
Lynn Haime, CEO at Baltic Creative
Anthony Engi-Meacock, Co-Founder at Assemble Architects
Jo Harrop, Founder and Director at PLACED
Phil Dawson, Founder at This Must Be The Place
📅 March 6th 2025
📍Camp & Furnace, Liverpool