Circular Cultures Design School 2026
The Circular Cultures Design School (CC Design School) is a capacity-building programme for emerging designers, cultural workers, architects creators, planners, and makers initiated by the British Council.
The first Romanian school (Post Industrial Futures) took place in 2026 in the city of Timișoara, Western Romania.
I led Strand A: Community Line, which looked at ways people from different backgrounds and sectors can navigate politics and complexity to collaborate on possible community-led futures for Romania’s many abaonded industrial sites.
The first Romanian school (Post Industrial Futures) took place in 2026 in the city of Timișoara, Western Romania.
I led Strand A: Community Line, which looked at ways people from different backgrounds and sectors can navigate politics and complexity to collaborate on possible community-led futures for Romania’s many abaonded industrial sites.
Special thanks to Anabella Costache, Ioan Marginean at Politehnica University of Timișoara and Ilinca Cristian, Tamina Bojoancă & Katia Stewart at the British Council. And to all the participants for joining the programme.
Art x planning commissions
This set of projects are part of ongoing work I have commissioned to explore the role that artists can play to involve more people in the production of policy and communicate intagible or abstract ideas that shape our places.
Deconstructed Disco ︎ Hanna Benihoud Studio, 2022
Sounds of the Borough ︎ Publica, 2022
Darkenss in Urban Spaces ︎ Kim Coleman and Harun Morrison, 2023-25
Deconstructed Disco ︎ Hanna Benihoud Studio, 2022
Sounds of the Borough ︎ Publica, 2022
Darkenss in Urban Spaces ︎ Kim Coleman and Harun Morrison, 2023-25
L-R: a guided walk of Ham Lands with ecologist Connor Butler; glow in the dark lichen; development workshop with artists Coleman and Morrison, and Richmond Arts Service colleagues at Orleans House Gallery︎︎︎
What is planning?
What is planning? tells the story of why we need to organise our towns and cities, why we create planning policy and how people can get involved in the process.
Concept, storyboard and text: me, supported by colleagues at Richmond & Wandsworth Councils
Illustration and graphic design: Maddison Graphic
Funded by a PropTech grant from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communites.
Concept, storyboard and text: me, supported by colleagues at Richmond & Wandsworth Councils
Illustration and graphic design: Maddison Graphic
Funded by a PropTech grant from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & Communites.
First printed in March 2023, reprinted in 2025. The Richmond version was published in 2024.
Syrup projects
Syrup projects is a design studio and collaborative partnership established in 2016. Our projects included working with community groups, oral histories in East London, producing events and spending a lot of time thinking about people, play and places. As of 2024, the collaboration is on pause.
From 2016-2019, we produced an annual (ish) print magazine:
︎ Issue One: Sticky
︎ Issue Two: Borders
︎ Issue Three: Power
Clients: Southwark Council / Deptford X Festival / Eastside Educational Trust / The Migration Musuem / University College London / Live Cinema UK / Tate Exchange / The People’s History Musuem, Manchester / London College of Communication / Science Gallery London.
With Em B-W
Archive here
From 2016-2019, we produced an annual (ish) print magazine:
︎ Issue One: Sticky
︎ Issue Two: Borders
︎ Issue Three: Power
Clients: Southwark Council / Deptford X Festival / Eastside Educational Trust / The Migration Musuem / University College London / Live Cinema UK / Tate Exchange / The People’s History Musuem, Manchester / London College of Communication / Science Gallery London.
With Em B-W
Archive here
Photos from a selection of projects. The B&W image is of Elephant & Castle in South London, taken by Phil Polgaze in 1991 and courtesy of the Southwark Archives.
New for Old Residency
Residency project supported by the British Council that focused on the experiences of women artisans who work with traditional crafts in Sa Pa and Hao Binh provinces in rural Vietnam. In collaboration with Tenaya Steed and our local partners Thảo Vu and Hûyen Nguyen.
Chao Chi! was the film Tenaya & I made for the project which gives a small glimpse into the lives of some of the women we met. They showed us how they make the fabric that is their livelihood and we talked about how they keep their villages running, sex, what their husbands do and the way the landscape is changing with new hotels and development in the area.
Chao Chi! was the film Tenaya & I made for the project which gives a small glimpse into the lives of some of the women we met. They showed us how they make the fabric that is their livelihood and we talked about how they keep their villages running, sex, what their husbands do and the way the landscape is changing with new hotels and development in the area.
We bought samples of hemp being processed at various stages, finsihed fabric and mass produced traditional costumes from a market. In Hanoi we bought new plastic stools and swaped them for old ones with restaurant owners. The items were displayed in an exhibition, On the Line, held at The Aram Gallery during London craft week 2017, curated by Martina Margetts.
Exhibition Design by Mentsen.
Exhibition Design by Mentsen.