In Dialogue

  • The Value of Architecture. RIAS Convention. Autumn 2022 [speaker and panelist]

  • Planning and Participatory Design. Guerilla Tactics. November 2021 [talk]

  • Climate Champions Podcast. Architects Journal. Autumn 2021 [podcast]

  • The power of community in the city. BBC Reporting Scotland, 2020 [press]

  • Glasgow 2030? Silicon Swalley 002, 2020 [talk]

  • Discourse: Enabling Talent & Opportunity. A New Chapter & Glasgow Institute of Architects, 2018 [panel]

  • In Practice. Association of Dundee Architecture Students, 2019 [lecture]

  • Pecha Kucha 24. Society by Design, 2015 [talk]

  • Future Maps & Open Data in Architecture. Scottish Government #OpenDataEDB, 2014 [talk]

  • Journey to Practice. University of Strathclyde, 2012 and 2020 [lectures]

  • Critical Dialogues. University of Strathclyde, 2012 [lecture]

 
 

In Print

 
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Events & Activities

  • Playing with Place at The Lighthouse, 2017 [exhibition]

  • Syn-Forum #2 Athens. European Creative Hubs Network [research]

  • Wee Architect for Atkins at The Briggait, 2016 [facilitation]

  • Critical Dialogues at The Lighthouse, 2012 & 2015 [exhibition & modelmaking]

  • Future of Architecture Education, for Architecture Place Division at Scottish Government, 2014 [research & facilitation]

  • Quick Beam Album Launch, at Govanhill Baths, 2013 [design & install]

  • Gathering Wastelands. EASA 2012 [facilitation]

  • Scottish Architecture Students Assembly, 2010 & 2011 [facilitation]

 
 
 

Social Media

Tiny people / I love them #myDeskToday #beingAnArchitect #architecting #architecture #modelMaking #oddScales #1to75
I can’t quite capture the iridescent pink paper on camera, but trust me it’s extremely cute - - - Gouache / technical fineliner / on handmade paper - - - #abstract #painting #gouacheonpaper #gouache #playtime #playingwithpaint #drawing #e
Balance: concrete / greenery / water - - - #throwback #tbt #london #travel #babies #travelswithbaby #barbican #morningwalk #stroll #brutalism #brutalistarchitecture #brutalist #barbicanestate #concrete #startthemyoung #barbican
Brighter evenings, more light to see the collection // my painting desk / works in progress, and peeking out from under them one of my Grandpas watercolour sketches found in the pads of paper handed down to me. I like to keep some of his work around,
Wet walkies, with the original and best tiny friend @ripleyitup - - - #coatedxolo #coatedxoloitzcuintli #coatedxoloitzcuintle #xolodog #xololove #action #actionshot #xoloitzcuintle #xoloitzcuintli #family #familytime #sunshine #walkies #dogwalk #walk
New paint day! Trying out different brush strokes / playing with the different feel of smooth vs ‘messy’ strokes - - - Gouache / technical fineliner / on pink iridescent @potsandpaperbysteph handmade paper - - - #abstract #painting #goua
Never not happy to see this view // it reminds me to go with my gut (that blue, which was a gamble) and to not be scared to collaborate, ask questions and work with others to make beautiful, practical places // this ceiling means a lot to me, but it&
Really enjoyed a visit to the @inverclydeshedder today with some of the @_newpractice team, great to see communities coming together and creating from derelict warehouse to bustling maker space. And we all know I love this yellow! #architecture #bui
A new angle on an old favourite | tiny friend was in her trike, which means wheels, which means no staircases. On this trip I had to locate and use the lifts (don’t recommend, very smelly) which also meant finding new angles and previously unvi
Ramadan Pavilion | absolutely gorgeous in the sunlight, tiny friend walked(!) all the way round it and then tried to eat a book at the museum shop. So we have a new book about shapes. - - - Lovely to see and explore this colourful, joyful pavilion p
One institution’s waste | exhibition visit with my little friend on a flying visit to the big smoke. She walks. She touches things. She’s getting stubborn. - - - Lovely to see this collection of critical explorations of waste and materia
Ooops. The perils of painting with tiny dog and tiny human as distractions… turned around too fast and knocked over the paintbrush water *everywhere* - since this was just an experiment I think I’ll keep going and see where it ends up. -
Mischief / comes in tiny packages
Sometimes borrowing an idea is valuable for creative exploration - I’ve been seeing wonderful artists painting frames as part of their pieces and wanted to see how that would work in my style, with my eye and my hand. I’m really enjoying
Really enjoyed a quick jaunt to #Manchester to share our work @_newpractice with @manmetuni and @praxxis_f / the morning included a sunny(!) walk around the city centre and a visit to the Alan Turing memorial statue which seemed fitting as my little
Fitting find in #manchester this week for #iwd2023 #embraceequity - inspirational quotes are one thing, but we need to do more than talk and be the change
One / a whole year of Ada - - - She’s full of silly smiles and has a cheeky face, cute expressions which make her look like her dad in miniature and crazy strawberry blonde hair which is coming in just like mine. What a great little person a
Our first artistic collaboration / pencil on watercolour paper - - - #markmaking #lines #drawaline #abstract #playtime #drawing #experiment #experimentingisfun #doodles #doodling #relax #collaboration #colourcombo #swirls #curls #linesanddots #mama
The babymobile is finally back up and running after a minor incident with a grumpy driver leading to a bent rear wheel. - - - Spent the afternoon pootling around with a sleeping baby in the front, such a joy to feel the wind in my hair, the sun on m
Fluorescents and brights up for the (very nearly) one year old - these have been neatly stacked against a wall for a while but this morning the tiny rebel-without-a-cause explored that pile a bit too hard and nearly broke all the frames. So up on the