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London, GB

• Leading R&W's first planning engagement team
• Delivering masterplan and town centre strategies across both boroughs
• Supporting applicants to delivery high quality, design-led pre-application engagement
• Hiring artists and working with arts & culture teams to bring creativity to planning policy

London

• Work areas include:
• Strategic lead for planning engagement in Richmond & Wandsworth including policy production
• Project managing Richmond Town Centre vision and engagement lead for Clapham Junction Masterplan
• London's first Night Time Strategy for Wandsworth
• Delivering £200k grant funding across 4 rounds of DLUCH's Digital PropTech Fund
• Workshop facilitation and training

Croydon, England, United Kingdom

Founded in 2013 by Croydon locals, Turf Projects is Croydon’s homegrown artist space and the first entirely artist-run contemporary art space in the borough.

• Creative design platform making research accessible through designed experiences.Recent projects include:
• Southwark today, a 1.5 year commission by Southwark Council exploring archives and heritage. Culminating in an exhibition at the at the Southwark Heritage Centre & Walworth Library, due to open June 2022.
• Publishing of an internationally stocked annual print magazine
• Collaborative knowledge exchange project with researchers from UCL & The Bartlett exploring Social Connection in Cities
• PLAY DATE as part of the Genders programme with Science Gallery London
• Commission for Eastside Educational Trust working with young people to co-design a multi-sensory artwork that explores the changing borough of Hackney

London, England, United Kingdom

Associate membership of PUBLIC PRACTICE

London

Member of the Autumn 2020 (South East) Cohort on a placement to help build the public sector’s capacity for proactive planning.

• Project management of live projects and oversight of design outputs for The Glass-House, a national charity supporting collaborative design for people, places, homes & neighbourhoods. My role includes:
• Supporting clients and collaborators to establish & manage their collaborative projects
• Design of accessible events, workshops & resources including digital engagement
• Advocating for the Glass-House as an innovator & thought leader
• Contribute to various collaborative funded research projects with academic institutions

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for strategy lead and implementation of engaging and accessible communication through creative events, workshops and activities that promote values and learning aims of the charity.

• Recent projects include:
• Design strategy and production of all visual communication & web design for BD Solutions, an MMC (Modern Methods of Construction) consultancy in the built environment.
• Sound installation displayed at the Tate Exchange.

Researcher status awarded as part of the six-year collaborative Empowering Design Practices research project exploring how community-led design can help empower those who look after historic places of worship to create more open, vibrant and sustainable places that respect and enhance their heritage.

Guest critic for the BA Architecture & BA Interior Architecture.

Delivered workshops with students at London College of Communication about public space and regeneration with an emphasis on material culture. Visiting critic for MA UX Design Course.

Guest critic for MA Spatial Design

Wapping

• Producing drawing packages to tight deadlines, providing general project support and producing visualisations
• Working autonomously as well as in a multi-disciplinary team, communicating with clients, stakeholders and consultants at all levels
• Bid support and coordination
• Key role in production, organisation and delivery of networking events for Chicks with Bricks

Information Experience Design, Information Experience Design

Interior Architecture