Organised by The Design Community Hub
About this event
Elevate the everyday: designing with Heatherwick Studio
2:15-3pm Tuesday 25th January 2022
Join Eliot Postma, Partner and Group Leader at Heatherwick Studio, as he discusses his journey through the design world to create some of the largest buildings in the world today.
Having worked in a range of creative industries – in advertising and as an acclaimed photographer – whilst training to become an architect, Eliot’s journey to becoming a design partner at a world renowned design studio is typically enterprising. Eliot will talk through his career path and discuss his recent work on Google’s first purpose-built headquarters and the transformation of London Olympia.
About the speaker
As an architect trained at the University of Nottingham and the Royal College of Art, Eliot joined Heatherwick Studio in 2010 where he has proven instrumental in delivering innovative designs on numerous high-profile projects. As Group Leader, Eliot currently oversees a large portfolio of projects that span Europe and North America and works alongside Thomas Heatherwick to guide the studio’s business strategy, planning and process. In 2016, Eliot was awarded a RIBA Rising Star award in recognition of his design and leadership skills.
About Heatherwick Studio
Heatherwick Studio is a team of 180 problem solvers dedicated to making the physical world around us better for everyone. Based out of our combined workshop and design studio in Central London, we create buildings, spaces, master-plans, objects and infrastructure. Focusing on large scale projects in cities all over the world, we prioritise those with the greatest positive social impact. Working as practical inventors with no signature style, our motivation is to design soulful and interesting places which embrace and celebrate the complexities of the real world. The approach driving everything is to lead from human experience rather than any fixed design dogma. The studio’s founder Thomas Heatherwick comes from a background immersed in materials and making. His curiosity and passion for problem-solving matured into the studio’s current design process where every architect, designer, landscape architect and maker is encouraged to challenge and contribute ideas. Positive and pragmatic, the studio’s team are collaborators whose role is to listen, question, then lead the conception and construction of special and unusual places. Ingenuity and inspiration are used to make projects that are affordable, buildable and sustainable.
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