On 28 April, Soundings and Fluid founding director Christina Norton spoke to the Temple Bar Trust about the genesis of the company and some of our more recent projects, such as the Mayfair Green Route It’s been quite a journey from 1996, when architects and urban design practice Fluid was founded on the principle that you create better places by involving people in the process – well before community engagement was a requirement of planning applications. Fluid was joined by sister company Soundings in 2007, expanding our community engagement activities, taking this participatory ethos to a more formalised level. Since then we’ve used our socially driven approach towards strategy and placemaking to develop a stream of culture-led projects. Among them the Royal Docks cultural placemaking strategy, High Street 2012, and the Canada Water masterplan.