Tom Grey

Tom Grey Dip.Arch.B.Arch.Sci.MArch.

Tom’s degree in architecture (TU Dublin), Masters in the Sustainability of the Built Environment (University of Auckland), and role as Research Fellow in TrinityHaus Research Centre (Trinity College Dublin) has led him to diverse people-centred research and design projects over the last 10 years. Working at the intersection of architectural design, urbanism, universal design, and co-creation, Tom focuses on how design and design processes can support individual and community health, well-being, social participation, and sustainability.

For EM|Path, this involves bringing the art, science, and craft of architecture and urban design to projects where the lived-and-embodied experience and perception of space, place, and time is critical to placemaking and the co-creation of inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities. It means understanding how the structure, layers, and traces of our physical environment connect us to place, each other, our history, and our future. It means helping to connect our tangible physical environment and infrastructure to the intangible qualities of communities and soft infrastructure of place.

Experience and expertise:

  • Co-creation and stakeholder engagement

  • Place-based analysis and human-built environment interaction studies

  • Understanding the lived-and-embodied experience and perception of space and place to inform design.

  • Adopting universal design and people-centred urbanism to understand the impact of the built environment on health and well-being across the life course (from early years to old age).

  • Policy and practices in sustainable urbanism

Some relevant publications:

1. Grey T, Dyer M, Gleeson D. Using Big and Small Urban Data for Collaborative Urbanism. In: Certomà C, Dyer M, Pocatilu L, Rizzi F, eds. Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2017:31-54.

2. Mark Dyer, Rachel Dyer, Min-Hsien Weng, Shaoqun Wu, Thomas Grey, Richard Gleeson, and Tomás García Ferrari, Framework for soft and hard city infrastructures, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 2019 172:6, 219-227.

1. Dyer M, Gleeson D, Grey T. Framework for Collaborative Urbanism. In: Certomà C, Dyer M, Pocatilu L, Rizzi F, eds. Citizen Empowerment and Innovation in the Data-Rich City. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2017:19-30

2. Leyden KM, Slevin A, Grey T, Hynes M, Frisbaek F, Silke R. Public and Stakeholder Engagement and the Built Environment: a Review. Current Environmental Health Reports. 2017.

3. Grey T, Siddall E, Dyer M, 2012. Shared Space, Shared Surfaces and Home Zones from a Universal Design approach (The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design at the National Disability Authority Ireland) (Research Report See http://universaldesign.ie/Built-Environment/Shared-Space/).

4. Siddall E, Grey T and Dyer M, 2013. Indicators and stakeholder engagement: A Dublin case study. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, Volume 166, Issue 2, 01 April