Confessions! with Rachel Fisher, hosted by Eleanor Jolliffe

Rachel Fisher is at the Building Centre in Euston on Thursday 29 October, for a talk titled Confessions!. It's hosted by Eleanor Jolliffe, and the two of them will be spending the evening talking through planning, policy and navigating complexity.

That's a broad set of ground to cover in one go, and the title Confessions! suggests the conversation might lean into the more personal or behind-the-scenes side of things rather than just a high-level overview. Planning and policy are the kinds of things that usually live in long reports and council meetings, so hearing them talked through in a room like this is a different way of getting at them. The 'navigating complexity' part is where the real meat is: how you actually work through the tangled bits of a project when the rules and the reality don't quite line up.

Fisher is the main feature of the night, and Jolliffe will be the one guiding the conversation. If you've spent any time around planning or policy, you know how easy it is for these topics to get bogged down in jargon, so having a host to keep things moving and ask the questions you'd actually want answered makes a difference. It's a conversation, not a lecture, which usually means there's more room for the kinds of stories and practical examples that don't make it into the official record.

The session runs from 6:30pm to 8:00pm on Thursday 29 October at the Building Centre, Euston, and tickets are £5.