Building Resilience: Demonstrators for a Changing Climate

Amin is the founder and chairman of Groupwork. Alongside leading the design and detailing of projects, he has taught, written and lectured on architecture and served on the RIBA National and International Awards Jury.

Pierre is a stonemason with a background in heritage and Creative Director at The Stonemasonry Company, where he leads a team developing stone staircases and load-bearing structures.

Cris is a Mallorcan economist and sustainability expert specialised in strategic management, social impact, and regenerative development. She is the former Managing Director of IBAVI and Director General of Housing and Architecture for the Balearic Government.

Ruth is an architect, researcher, writer, and programme leader at the London School of Architecture.

Andrew is a Founding Director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, a practice dedicated to delivering buildings of the highest architectural quality that acknowledge their impact on the environment.

Vanessa Norwood is a curator, consultant and writer advocating for low-carbon architecture and materials.

Sara is an architect and activist, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub, whose mission is to enable the local delivery of retrofit at scale.

Imandeep is Co-founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE, an organisation demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social and ecological transition.

Julieta is the co-founder of The Shift. She brings over a decade of experience as a human rights advocate specializing in housing, with a strong focus on municipal implementation.

Justin McGuirk is Director of Future Observatory, the national design research programme for the green transition, based at the Design Museum.

Adib is a regenerative advisor, environmental architect, and forest maker. He founded theOtherDada, an advisory & architecture practice, pioneering nature-based design that bridges architecture, ecology, and art to regenerate cities as shared spaces for all of Life to thrive.

Jacek specialises in spatial planning, air quality, energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate policy. He supervised the city's anti-smog policy, the Warsaw Climate Panel and Warsaw Green City among other projects.

Johanna is Founding Partner of award-winning Landscape Architectural practice, J&L Gibbons. She is a Fellow of the Landscape Institute and a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) elected as the current RDI Keeper, the first Landscape Architect in this prestigious role.

Janice is a curator and lecturer, currently Head of Curatorial Programme of Future Observatory at the Design Museum.

Future Observatory is the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, based at the museum and coordinated in partnership with UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Future Observatory curates exhibitions, programmes events and funds and publishes new research, all with the aim of championing new design thinking on environmental issues.

UKRI’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds internationally outstanding independent researchers across the whole range of the arts and humanities: history, archaeology, digital content, philosophy, languages and literature, design, heritage, area studies, the creative and performing arts, and much more. The quality and range of research supported by AHRC works for the good of UK society and culture and contributes both to UK economic success and to the culture and welfare of societies across the globe.