The unit

We established Touching the City in 2006 through a shared interest in the potential for dialogue between strategic objectives and personal experience in public space.

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As an Architect, Oliver Froome-Lewis has pursued these objectives through practice and teaching. His prize winning work ranges in scale between furniture - Observer and BD competitions, and urban strategy - Europan, RIBA Living Sites and Circle 33. The work has been exhibited in Finland, Switzerland and at the Architecture Foundation in London. A series of projects run with students at Nottingham, Cambridge and Canterbury Schools of Architecture has further tested the potential of this approach and includes: Urban String, Urban Beach, Urban Transversals, Urban Swarm, Urban Prime and Urban Sustention. The Cambridge related projects were exhibited at the RIBA in 2006. The first of a series of initiatives including Canterbury students for SEEDA in Chatham was completed in April '07.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is a designer and researcher. Her interests in interaction and urbanism began whilst studying for a BA in Architecture at Cambridge. After graduating, she worked at Richard Roger's Architecture + Urbanism Unit at the Greater London Authority, and then spent a year as a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard University, studying Product Design, Film and Architecture, Animation and Set Design. Before beginning her MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in 2007 she worked for General Public Agency, a consultancy specialising in regeneration and social, cultural and spatial planning of the public realm.

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Touching the City is kindly supported by University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury.

 

 

Website designed by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.