Bringing together place brand and marketing leadership teams from across the UK
The 7th Annual City Nation Place UK conference will take place in Glasgow, a city that over the past four decades has demonstrated the power of culture-led regeneration and where culture, tourism, economic development and inward investment teams work together to deliver a vision for growth.
Join us for this two-day event to take away ideas and inspiration not only from Glasgow’s story, but from the expertise and experience of place brand and marketing leaders from across the UK.
- Join us on day one for in-depth learnings from Glasgow’s experience - an afternoon of placemaking presentations taking place in different locations across the city - find out more
- Network with us at a Civic Reception hosted in the magnificent Glasgow City Chambers
- Join us on day two for a full day of presentations, panel discussions, and round table collaboration designed to provide a breadth of ideas to help you shape your own collaborative, place-led approach to building and managing place reputation and growth - find out more
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Kathryn Davis has spent 25 years working in Destination Management and Marketing, previously working in hotels and sport. As Visit West’s CEO, Kathryn oversees and manages the Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP) within the company, representing the destinations and regional visitor economy at national, local, and international forums. She is a Board Member of UKInbound, and currently President of the Tourism Management Institute. Kathryn’s strategic role includes the reduction in seasonality and extension of visitor stays, and enabling strong, supportive partnerships. Her work includes a focus on sustainability and inclusivity, as well as identifying opportunities and trends across the visitor economy, particularly in the roles of culture, film, sport and culinary travel. As well as the LVEP representing the west of England, Visit West delivers 3 Business Improvement Districts in central Bristol.
Wayne Hemingway MBE is a British designer with an international reputation for projects encompassing a strong community/social content through multi-disciplinary designers, HemingwayDesign, a medium sized family-owned business focused on place, people and positive social impact set up with his wife Gerardine who also received an MBE for their award-winning work.
In 2023 Wayne co-Founded www.CharitySuperMkt.com arguably the UK’s hottest retail concept taking the stigma out of pre-loved clothing and raising millions for charity as well as revitalising town and shopping centres
To understand Wayne’s drive for good design and good business it is worth going back to understand how it all started. Wayne and Gerardine as 20-year-olds set up a market stalls in Camden, Kensington Market and Affleck’s Palace in Manchester selling second hand clothes, Gerardine’s handmade designs and Dr Martens (yes they were behind the Dr Marten brand explosion) The story of a buyer from Macy’s New York turning up out of nowhere and putting in a large order is one in its own right! With family members and a few second-hand sewing machines they fulfilled the order and started the infamous and multi award winning Red or Dead fashion brand with 23 shops worldwide employing over 300 staff. Red or Dead was a groundbreaking global brand winning StreetStyle Designer of The Year awards for an unprecedented three consecutive years. They sold the brand in 1999.
Over the last 25 years, HemingwayDesign has worked with a variety of clients on projects that traverse most disciplines and sectors; including Shelter, Girl Guiding, Social Work England, The National Archive, The National Trust, TFL, St. Modwen, Taylor Wimpey, Argent, Landsec, Southbank Centre and Media City. The business has also advised over 40 local authorities across the UK.
Always believing that good house building design should never be compromised and can be achieved within budget, Wayne advised the House of Lords select committees, publicly shamed the house building industry then demonstrated (by master planning and designing a multi award-winning housing scheme in Gateshead).
Highlight projects include:
Leading the coastal regeneration (master-planning), place-making branding for many towns and cities in the UK (think coastal Margate, Weymouth, Lowestoft, Morecambe, Boscombe, Cleethorpes and others from York to Southend)
Re-imagining of Dreamland, Margate, Europe’s first ever pleasure park (shortlisted for Design Museum’s ‘Design of the Year’ in 2017).
Uniform Designs of many large national institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum and Royal Museums Greenwich. Collaborated on uniform design with TFL where it co-designed its new uniform with the input of 16,000 staff and for the Girl Guiding movement with the largest co-design project known where 53,000 girls and women have contributed
Established several highly successful place making festivals including Vintage Festival (Morecambe), Festival of Thrift (Teesside), Festival of Making (Blackburn), First Light (Lowestoft), Classic Car Boot Sale (Kings Cross) , Urban Village Fete ( London ) and We Invented the Weekend (MediaCity, Manchester).
Co-Founded www.CharitySuperMkt.com arguably the UK’s hottest retail concept taking the stigma out of pre-loved clothing and raising millions for charity.
HemingwayDesign has tried and tested methodologies but are not restricted by a house style, or by process but have a subjective point of view that is considerate of diverse and divergent perspectives. They pride themselves on being plugged into the zeitgeist; understand cultural context and social issues that affect, and shape people’s lives every day.
The multidimensional way HemingwayDesign look at all projects comes from years of design experience and a highly motivated team that share their expertise and learnings.
Wayne has an extensive TV and radio background (from being a weekly presenter on the Big Breakfast, to a regular on Newsnight)
As a result, Wayne is a frequent keynote speaker on town centre and retail futures, entrepreneurship, purposeful business, housing and regeneration, brand, and more at corporate events and award ceremonies worldwide.
As founding Director of thinkingplace, John has directed the development of over 80 place brands over the last 16 years across the UK. He is active in promoting and implementing this best practice approach of creating a shared place story, widening place leadership and creating active collaboration as a key part of growing a place’s economy and promoting local pride. He has led projects for places as diverse as Hampshire, Nottingham, Torbay, Harrogate, North Cambridgeshire, Newhaven, Medway, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Harrogate, Perth and all three UK Cities of Culture.
John has also been working with places to help them develop their response to the Towns Deal, Future High Streets Fund, Levelling Up Funding and Shared Prosperity Fund and is a Mentor to the High Streets Task Force helping to support local authorities and communities to transform their places.