Professor Yolande Barnes

Prof. Yolande Barnes’ projects each fall under one or more of eight inter-related themes. Yolande identified these themes in consultation with industry experts.

Yolande’s projects each fall under one or more of eight inter-related themes. Yolande identified these themes in consultation with industry experts at the inception of BREI over the course of 2018 and 2019. The themes reflect some of the most talked-about and ‘wicked’ problems facing Real Estate globally in the 21st century; they are not confined to finance and economics (although many investors have an increasing interest in all of them) but rather, represent the questions and issues which concern governments, planners, policy makers, NGOs, landowners, landlords, tenants, managers, occupiers and users, taxpayers, developers, entrepreneurs, financiers and investors. Underlying all these activities and concerns is one thing: land. If real estate is this and everything built on it and attached to it, then Yolande’s primary project is understanding the way Real Estate markets and other phenomena work at a holistic, global level.

The themes, and some of the projects and activities associated with them are:

Digital Disruption: Virtual Estate and Digital transformation in Real Estate Global Symposium
Creating entrepreneurial MSc on RE digital transformation
PropTech Accelerator/Laboratory
UCL Campus Model
Unissu Metaverse Webinar
Oxford FoRE
RED Foundation Data Research and Academia Steering Group
Beyond Placemaking: Hypermixity project and report for Native Land with ING
CityLab (Bloomberg and Aspen Institute)
City, Civility and Capitalism (Axon Johnsonn Foundation)
Making Place Project with IPUT and ARUP
Learning and Working Environments: Customer Experience in Real Estate Exec Ed course
Withers Third Space Project
RICS Commercial RE Research
Housing Affordability: Supurbia & Street votes
BSSC Sustainable Housing Group
UCL Housing Forum
Automatic Affordability Tenure
Housing Issues series
Gowling WLG How we Live Well Project
High Rise Residential Development Evidence Review Advisory Group
Real estate resilience: Advisor to Government department for Levelling up (Environmental Round tables)
Teach on Oxon Masters Sustainable Urban Development
Ecocity World Summit with GLA
ULI Climate Change Summit (Academic partner)
Community Inclusion: Hackney Wick Fish Island Group
Creative Wick Living Lab
Community led Housing Research for Community Development Trust & GLA
Urban Rooms Network
London model with LLDC
UCL Housing Forum
Infrastructure Interface: UCL and GLA Green Infrastructure Project
Health and Wellbeing: Commissioner on Oxford University Healthy Cities Commission
Healthy Urbanism Book Launch
Honorary and other Positions: Advisory Board member New London Architecture
Non-executive director Space Syntax
Honorary Fellow RIBA
Fellow SPR
Patron Create Streets
Design Council Ambassador
Advisor to Geospatial commission
Advisor to RICS on levelling up
Fellow RGS
ULI Residential Council
Academician at Academy of Urbanism
Lecturer. On Cambridge IDBE Masters course
Visiting Professor at Madrid University

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