Matthew Pembery Email & Phone Number

My role at RAFT as an architectural assistant has varied from direct community engagement, to producing graphics and detailed carbon calculations and modelling.School Workshops - Assisting with workshops in schools with children and teachers, communicating retrofit principles and helping children understand retrofit for their own homes and communities Detailed Retrofit + Exhibition Design - Co-leading on initial stages of retrofit demonstrator for a London Council, working directly with the client, + designing a community exhibition + engagement programme.Graphic Communication - Graphics illustrating retrofit principles and its wider relevance to communities, that are accessible, but retain the complexities, understanding the inherent knowledge that communities have through their lived experiences.Social Media and Website - Complete redesign of the website and social media to create spaces that are relevant for built environment professionals, as well as teachers and students to engage with.Wider Community Engagement - Across my work at RAFT, engaging with the wider school community has been essential. I then helped co-ordinate a spotlight photography project to highlight the vital role of premises managers in the school community and make their work more visible, as it is often not recognised.Knowledge Sharing - Presenting work and engaging with communities at the Building Centre, as well as a range of other professionals in the retrofit space.

Director - Contributing in a young trustee position, to help offset expand its vision to support young people across the city to create a safe space for them to express and explore their identities, through creative practices.

Workshop Facilitator - Contributed to a range of workshops, including organising and running a collaborative workshop at the London Irish Centre exploring what community looks like to different people, whether those communities are organised, informal, digital, physical, spontaneous etc. and how community might act as a disruptor to systems of dominance and oppression, and act as a space of resistance, where new possibilities and imaginations can be formed.

Community Football Coach - Running a range of football sessions in primary schools across Bath that aimed to be inclusive and provide the opportunity to engage with football for a wide-range of participants.

Organiser, Activist, and Speaker - Assisting in a range of roles including as a coordinator in the ACAN education group, where we have campaigned and collectively organised to improve architectural education particularly around sustainability and climate justice. I helped coordinate a network of student groups in architecture schools across the country, have presented in the Leeds Beckett Architecture Symposium, organised many workshops and created posters presented at COP26 in Glasgow, amongother actions. Most importantly, this has occurred collectively with students, academics, architects, engineers and other student groups such as FAF and Decolonise Architecture. Our campaign has been covered in the AJ, RIBAJ and was internationally recognised with an award from the Finnish Society of Aesthetics.

Hospital Design - Working across multiple refurbishment and new build healthcare projects, in offices across country. This included a new outpatients department (OPD) for a hospital for which I produced drawings, renders and construction details for the public consultation.Net Zero Carbon - I created presentations, graphics and guidance documentation on net zero carbon and passivhaus strategy for both internal and external use.