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Mac Van Dam is a multi-disciplinary designer, inventor, and artist. His work is rooted in a desire to bring the benefits of biological/living sensibilities to the built environment. Before founding design studios in the UK, Mac was a research member at the Living Architecture Systems Group in Toronto, a post-graduate student at UCL's Bio-integrated Design Lab, and has worked at internationally acclaimed architecture firms. His work has been shown at the Lisbon Triennale, London Design Festival, Venice Biennale, Coachella, and other international design exhibitions. With a team at ZINC, a mission-driven incubator, he is developing innovative architectural products that utilise the vast vertical surfaces in urban environments to host biodiverse ecologies. 🔹 Learn more about Vertical Grounds at here 🔹 Learn more about Mac Van Dam’s work here 🔹 Follow Mac Van Dam on Instagram here

Sam is Co-Founder of ERIC, a creative career app for 16-25 year olds. She lives near Edinburgh and is extremely passionate about connecting careers education and the creative industries.  ERIC is an award-winning platform connecting the next generation of talent to the creative industries. Their mission is to give young people access to career experiences, initiatives & opportunities, while helping creative companies get their own career experiences, initiatives & opportunities in front of their target audience. 🔹 Connect with Sam on linkedin🔹 Find out more about ERIC - ERIC Website 🔹 Follow ERIC on social media: ERIC TikTok ERIC instagram ERIC twitter ERIC linkedin

Born and raised in Leytonstone, Murkage Dave spent his youth listening to garage and R&B followed by formative years spent in Manchester absorbing The Smiths and Joy Division. This disparate mix of influences has shaped a defiantly British pop blend, with his observational storytelling continuing to attract fans globally. He has collaborated with Caroline Polacheck, Tricky, Mike Skinner, Evidence, AC Slater, Jaykae, Skepta, Nekfeu and more. Murkage Dave’s listeners have formed their own community, organically grown from a connection with his music. This connection compels his fans to share the music with others, resulting in a cathartic live show experience where the whole audience unites. Over his past two albums, he’s gained support from Pharrell Williams, Young Fathers, Iggy Pop, Romesh Ranganathan, Pitchfork, The Fader, Highsnobiety, Complex, The Face, BBC Radio 1, and more. 🔹 Find out more about Murkage Dave - http://murkagedave.com/ 🔹 Follow Murkage Dave on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/murkagedave

Jess Mahoney is Strategic Partnerships and Networks Lead, Carys Bradley-Roberts is Communications and Engagement Manager at Creative Cardiff, which is based in the Centre for the Creative Economy at Cardiff University. The Centre for the Creative Economy creates a space for much-needed research, innovation and engagement projects focused on the creative industries in Wales. Established in 2014, the Centre’s initial focus was on network building, launching the Creative Cardiff network in 2015 to engage with industry and encourage cross-sector collaboration and innovation. Creative Cardiff aims to deliver a vision of Cardiff as a connected, collaborative, and inclusive capital of creativity.   🔹 Creative Cardiff | Creative Cardiff

Andy C Pratt is UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy, Director of the Centre of Culture and the Creative Industries, and Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of London.  He previously established the first Department of Culture and the Creative Industries in the world at King’s College London. Alongside this he previously taught at LSE, and UCL, and had held visiting professor positions at many global institutions including in SMU (Singapore) and ZHdK/ETH (Zurich).   He specialises in the analysis of the cultural industries globally. This research has three strands. The first focuses on the social and economic dynamics of clustering and knowledge exchange. The second strand concerns the definition and measurement of employment in the cultural, or creative, industries. The third concerns cultural governance and policy making at the national, regional and urban scales. He has worked with UNESCO, the World Bank and many national and city government on these topics.  His current research concerns trans-local cultural production chains and is funded by EU Horizon 2020: Cicerone. He has previously explored projects on urban creative economy, clustering, knowledge transfer, innovation and creativity & until 2023 he was Editor-in-Chief of the international interdisciplinary journal City, Culture and Society. 🔹 Learn more and connect with Andy C Pratt here 🔹 Read Andy C Pratt’s academic writing here

Tamsin Ace was previously Director of Creative Programmes and Collections at London’s Museum of the Home in Hackney. She also spent 12 years at the Southbank Centre, departing as Head of Public Programming in 2019.  Now, however, Tamsin is the first person to take on a brand new role as Director, of East Bank Cultural Quarter. East Bank is the UK’s newest cultural quarter that rests in the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.   The Mayor of London’s vision for East Bank has placed the £1.1 billion as the most significant single investment in London’s culture since the legacy of the 1851 Great Exhibition, and will shape the cultural life of the city for the 21st century and beyond. Opening from autumn 2023, East Bank is a unique collaboration between cultural institutions, world leading universities and the people of the Olympic boroughs. East Bank is made up of Sadler’s Wells East, BBC Music Studios and V&A East & V&A East Storehouse as well as a brand new University College London (UCL East) and University of the Arts London's London College of Fashion. This is a meaningful addition to London’s cultural offering and, I believe, will light the torch for a new era of creativity in London & will further cement East London as a global hub for the arts, culture, & creativity. 🔹 Find out more about East Bank here - East Bank | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 🔹 Contact Tasmin directly - t.ace@fashion.arts.ac.uk 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit Arbeit Studios — Trowbridge Gardens E9

Ellen Miles roots for nature in urban neighbourhoods. She founded the Nature is a Human Right campaign, and edited the acclaimed anthology of writing – by scientists, activists, artists and poets – inspired it. Ellen also runs Dream Green, a social enterprise that provides guides, grants and workshops to help communities green their streets. Following the release of her book Get Guerrilla Gardening: A handbook for planting in public places (DK, 2023), The Guardian dubbed Ellen "the new doyenne of guerrilla gardening". She calls herself a "botanarchist". 🔹 Follow Octaviachill on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/octaviachill/ 🔹Follow Octaviachill on Instagram - https://www.tiktok.com/@octaviachill 🔹 Find out more about Nature is a Human Right - https://www.instagram.com/natureisahumanright/ 🔹 Follow Dream Green - DREAM GREEN (@dreamgreen.earth) | Instagram profile 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit - ⁠⁠Arbeit Studios — Trowbridge Gardens E9⁠

Ewa Effiom is a London-based Belgo-Nigerian architect, writer and producer. He was a member of the Architecture Foundation’s New Architecture Writers’ second cohort which culminated in a critically acclaimed public programme. Mythology, collective identity, popular culture and their inextricable links to the built environment are recurring themes in his work with a focus on the mythology and folklore that different subcultures instate and associated to space. He has been published in the Architect’s Newspaper, Dwell, the AJ, ICON, Wallpaper, Frame, OnOffice, Architecture Aujourd'hui, the Modern House magazine, A Daily Dose and Ex Libris. His piece Architecture, Buildings and Conservation in MAJA was nominated for best piece in the 2022 Estonian Architecture Awards and came second place in the Tallinn Architecture Biennale’s 2021 Curatorial Competition with a proposal entitled Adaptive Re-use. His film Eagle Mansion was premiered at the 2021 Urban Film Festival in Perth and screened at 2022 Melbourne Design Week. He was awarded the 2022 How To Residency at the Canadian Centre for Architecture entitled “How Not To Be A Developer” which is the year that his second film “Beck Road” premiered at the Open City festival. Beck Road later screened at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale entitled Laboratory of the Future as part of the curator, Lesley Lokko’s Carnival public programme. After graduating he became an associate lecturer on the MA in Architecture + Urbanism at the Manchester School of Architecture, a post he held until 2022 and he is a visiting critic at the Estonian Institute of Technology and London Metropolitan University. 🔹 Follow Ewa Effiom on Instagram⁠ 🔹 Follow Ewa Effiom on Twitter 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit - ⁠Arbeit Studios — Trowbridge Gardens E9⁠

Dr. Nina Van Volkinburg is an academic researcher and educator focused on digital disruption and sustainable business practices within the global fashion industry. She is passionate about supporting emerging fashion talent and is the Course Leader of the MA Strategic Fashion Marketing program at London College of Fashion, part of University of the Arts London. Previously she founded fashion upcycling platform RETURE which aimed to connect consumers and designers to transform their wardrobe through meaningful co-creation. She holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Exeter and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 🔹 Find out more about Dr. Nina Van Volkinburg - https://www.ninavanvolkinburg.com/ 🔹Connect with Dr. Nina Van Volkinburg on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvanvolkinburg/ 🔹Connect with Dr. Nina Van Volkinburg on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ninavanvolkinburg/?hl=en-gb 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit - ⁠Arbeit Studios — Trowbridge Gardens E9

Originally from a small town in East Lancashire, Jeanette Barnes studied a Fine Art degree at Liverpool Polytechnic were she fell in love with the energy of the city, the people, noise and architecture and decided to make the urban environment her subject matter. She went to London and  studied Post graduates at the Royal Academy School and Royal College of Art. Drawing and printmaking  are the main stays of her practice with a slight detour in putting found objects from the Thames together into sculptural collages. All her work is about a sense of history, journey and how people interact in city spaces, with the belief that people bring buildings and architecture alive.  She has had a studio in Hackney Wick for over 20 years documenting the change in the area as well as going to other cities around the world to draw on location and produce large works back at her studio. She has had many solo and joint exhibitions, has been awarded scholarships and prizes, wrote a book on sketching with her husband in lockdown, teaches drawing and has recently won the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. 🔹 Discover Jeanette Barnes’s work - JEANETTE BARNES – DRAWINGS & PRINTS (jeanettebarnesart.co.uk) 🔹 Follow Jeanette Barnes on Instagram - Jeanette Barnes (@jeanettebarnesart) • Instagram photos and videos 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit - Arbeit Studios — Trowbridge Gardens E9