I'm Head of Product & Creative Director at Patch Places, a start-up building dynamic workspaces and cultural venues on high streets and town centres. The Patch vision is to make the world of work more accessible and to support inclusive growth and opportunity across the UK.
My interests span design, inclusive development, and technology – leading future-focused projects and initiatives through their vision, design, strategy, and purpose as they scale their impact.
Prior to Patch, I co-founded Assemble, the acclaimed social impact design studio focused on supporting inclusive civic and cultural development. Assemble’s purpose-driven approaches were recognised in the receipt of the 2015 Turner Prize.
As a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University (2019-20), I concentrated on technologies scope to enable sustainable civic, urban and economic growth. I'm a frequent international speaker and have held a number of advocacy and advisory positions from Mayor’s Design Advocate to resident consultant to Design Indaba in Cape Town.
I'm motivated to develop scalable pathways to power inclusive change and am actively engaged in the UK’s tech and venture communities – from Fellow at the social impact incubator Zinc VC, to participant on the Newton Venture Programme at the London Business School – a programme creating a more inclusive tech investor ecosystem.
Projects credited in
- Leaders with social heart: 100 creative changemakersCelebrating social responsibility is at the heart of what we do, so we've partnered with Squarespace – whose mission is to inspire people with creative ideas to succeed – to shine a light on 100 influential luminaries from art, technology, charity, design, business and more that are working tirelessly to make our world a better place. To highlight these organisations, we asked 10 creative changemakers to each nominate 10 people behind inspiring brands, products and movements with amazing social
- Kamikatz BreweryAssemble worked with microbrewery Rise&Win to expand their brewing facilities in a former sawmill in a mountainous region of Shikoku island, Japan. Situated in Kamikatsu, population 2,000 people, the town gained national attention in 2003 following their adoption of a policy setting out to achieve the ambitious target of producing Zero Waste by 2020. This followed a change in national legislation that forced closure of the two waste incinerators that previously served the town. Read more: https:1
- The Factory FloorThe Factory Floor is an installation of 8,000 handmade ceramic floor tiles at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara . The installation presents the latest experimental production method to be developed by Granby Workshop, the Liverpool based architectural ceramics manufacturer set up by Assemble in 2015. See more: https://assemblestudio.co.uk/projects/the-factory-floor4
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Work history
Head of Product & Creative DirectorPatch Places
London, United KingdomFull Time
Co-FounderAssemble
London, United KingdomFull Time
Skills
- Architect
Education
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FellowHarvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Harvard Loeb Fellow