Corinna Dean is an experienced critical urbanist, and instigator with a varied portfolio career which is driven by a champion of public space upon which the social, political and cultural is acted out. She has the ability to turn research into practical application.She is an experienced teacher and curator as well as thinker that looks at a semiotic reading of the urbanscape which is driven by a interest in how the urban is communicated, experienced and lived out across cultures, most recently explored on a field study trip of Douala, Cameroon with a French Aid agency and latterly to Kochi, India, to collaborate with the Kochi-Muziri Biennale team.She holds a PhD from LSE CIties Programme which was a collaborative doctoral award with Tate Modern and an Arch Dip from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, BA Arch from University of Westminster.Corinna is an excellent project manager, turning ideas from the concept stage to realisation, most recently she launched ARCA, the Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture, which is an open source archive to encourage participation bottom up, as well as re-engaging cold war structures and other architectural typologies in a rural context. She is engaged in devising cultural projects to bring these sites into the public consciousness through temporary activities such as Architours or more long term strategies.