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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

My guest this week is Nana Badu, Founder and CEO of BADU. BADU is a multi dimensional community development organisation. BADU is a non-profit dedicated to providing holistic and unconditional support to underserved communities. BADU engages with young people and their families through its key pillars: Sports, Mentoring and Education. Nana worked as a PE teacher and coach at numerous schools across Hackney, specialising in on-the-ground mentorship, trauma counselling and anti racist policy in some of the most deprived inner city estates. Nana now sits on the Sport England TRAVIS board (Tackling Racist and Racist Inequality In Sport) where he works to improve access to sport justice across the UK.  In 2021, Nana Badu won the first Cyrille Regis Award at the Football Black List awards for his work in grassroots and in the community. Nana was invited to the Kings Garden party in May 2023 for his 15+ year dedication to community empowerment and was one of the late Queen Elizabeth’s remarkable Batonbearers entrusted to carry the Baton at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. “Through my work at BADU, I’m the most fulfilled I’ve ever been in my life. Myself and our team are the lucky few who get to live our passion by supporting and serving our community everyday. We believe in the whole child. We believe in equality and human rights. We believe in championing social change. Special thank you to our wonderful team of volunteers, donors and corporate partners for believing in me and our mission. It’s through your efforts that we’re able to make a difference.” 🔹 Follow Badu Sports here 🔹 Find out more about Badu Sports here 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Stacia Bedford, is an accomplished, dynamic and disruptive repeat entrepreneur, who pioneered the bridal tech space with the innovative e-commerce platform she co-founded, Prim & Clover — a first-of-its-kind online wedding dress builder and marketplace. Stacia specialises in coaching founders through the launch and scale of their start-ups and MMEs in fashion, tech and the creative industries by establishing operations, commercialising products/services, implementing audits and benchmarks to stimulate and accelerate growth. Stacia runs the MA Fashion Entrepreneurship & Innovation course, at the prestigious London College of Fashion, where she leads and coaches budding and extant entrepreneurs in various creative industries through the development and scale of their brands and businesses. 🔹 Follow Stacia Bedford | LinkedIn 🔹 Follow Stacia on Instagram 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt

Cri (pronounced "Cree") deconstructs and reshapes as part of her creative process, seeking to arrive at synthesis while making (and embracing) a lot of mess. Messwork facilitates a multidisciplinary yet holistic approach to trauma recovery and abundant living. With her Bachelor of Psychology and Business from Northeastern University, a Master of Fine Arts in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, and her ongoing education at the Institute of Core Energetics as a practitioner in training, Cri integrates complex skill sets into a full-bodied foundation upon which to reinforce her work and practice. As a creator, practitioner, and educator, Cri's psychological and design expertise fuels her methodological and theoretical frameworks and approaches, exploring the inherent nature and connection across somatics, psychology, design, and mess. Currently teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Communications Design at Pratt Institute, Cri expands her name-sake practice, Cg Studio, into Messwork, an offering employing and leveraging somatics, design, and the transformative power of mess as a catalyst for growth. In her own Messwork, Cri navigated various academic and personal therapeutic territories before finding somatics. A health crisis in her late twenties catapulted her inquiry into more robust healing modalities, punctuating the significance and impact of being treated as a whole rather than a series of fragments. As a result of her own experience, Cri recognises the acute urgency and need to create more vigorous, holistic practices toward growth and healing, an offering she now extends to her clients, meeting them in their fullness, complexity, and humanity. 🔹 Find out more about Messwork here - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.messwork.com 🔹 Book a 30-minute complimentary consultation session (online) or a 50-80 minute personal transformation session (online or in-person) with Cri here - https://www.messwork.com/book 🔹Follow Messwork on Instagram here - Messwork (@messwork) • Instagram photos and videos 🔹 This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - ⁠⁠⁠https://lnkd.in/esnT7tdt