ASK THE EXPERTS: Architecture Speed Dating

ASK THE EXPERTS: Architecture Speed Dating

4-5pm, Saturday the 19th of October

East Quay, Watchet

FREE - Booking essential

An opportunity to ask our expert architects anything you want to know about your own build, project or ideas. You'll be given a dedicated 10-minute slot during the hour on the day to discuss your project.

Please note, this is a public event, and visitors ma listen to your conversation.

When booking, please provide a brief description of your project or build, so we can match you with an architect.

ABOUT THE ARCHITECTS

Rob Fiehn

Rob is the Director of the London Society an a London-based communications consultant specialising in architecture and design. Also, the Chair of the Museum of Architecture and Trustee of Blackhorse Workshop in Walthamstow. Rob edited two books published in 2023: Collective Action! The Power of Collaboration and Co-Design in Architecture (RIBA Publishing) and London of the Future (Merrell).

Piers Taylor

Architect, Professor of Knowledge Exchange in Architecture at UWE. Founder of Invisible Studio, a multi-award-winning architecture practice, operating through collaboration, experimentation, research and education. Taylor’s practice-based work includes numerous award-winning projects, including the National RIBA Award Winning Wolfson Tree Management Centre, Room 13, and East Quay, Watchet. His book ‘Learning from the Local’ will be published by the RIBA in 2025.

Owen Hughes Pearce, PEARCE+

PEARCE+ is an experimental studio weaving together architecture, land art and collective making. PEARCE+ designed and built the interiors for East Quay's accommodation pods and Creator Space. Their practice founded on four core propositions: Architecture must be allied to the earth and connected to nature, not an imposition on it; Making is an exploratory process for learning and betterment, not a task to be outsourced; Collaboration is the foundation of enjoyment and advancement, not a box-ticking process; Design is a behaviour and a commitment, not a body of knowledge.

Becca Thomas, New Practice

New Practice are experts in place working across the UK, Ireland and internationally. The practice is women and LGBTQIA+ led and exists to develop the community, creative and cultural capacity of places and to connect people with the decision making processes that underpin lived experiences. The team is dedicated to creating projects that prioritise people and community.

Ella Thorns, Studio Bark

Studio Bark are architects for a better future. We create buildings that are radical in approach but sensitive in context, to get people talking and speed up change. We challenge the norms to create a better future for us all - you, the community, the planet, and our future together.

Steve McCloy and Bongani Muchemwa, McCloy+Muchemwa

With their roots in Africa and now London-based, Steve McCloy and Bongani Muchemwa were recently named in the Architects’ Journal '40 Under 40', and they are committed to making affordable, low-carbon architecture, as well as being passionate about big-ideas and experimenting.