The Predicament of the Pipeline is a performance lecture made in collaboration with artist Louis Pohl Koseda as part of an ongoing exploration of the UK’s planning system and its inherent complexity and contradiction. The performance was an attempt to elucidate on the layers of palimpsest that are present in government decision making processes, but also the layers of narrative that are presented in the painting.

Building on my research at the Design Museum, The Predicament of the Pipeline untangled the layers present in the current planning application process.

With a new piece developed in collaboration by Louis Pohl Koseda as a backdrop, as well as using a narrative structure, soundscapes and live drawing I untangled the layers of bureaucracy to reveal the ways in which palimpsest defines the nature of policy and governance historically, and the impact this has on real life scenarios. 

A short introductory text to the CIVICITY publication, a project led by The Nieuwe Instituut, collating contributions and reflections from participants in the 2025 and 2026 edition of the programme.

CIVICITY is a project led by The Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam that invites designers to think critically about the impact and the legacy of design weeks - how they effect the host cities’ economies, cultures and environments. The project is situated in Milan, and is delivered in partnership with CheFare. 

Ahead of the 2026 edition of Milan Design Week, I reflected briefly on the systems that spring into life each year to make these city-wide events happen. 

A longer and more in-depth reflection is currently in the works.

A review of a temporary accommodation facility in the heart of the City of London for the Architects’ Journal Homelessness issue. 

For the Architects’ Journal, I visited the Snow Hill Court project and reflected on its approach to providing essential services to rough sleepers in the city. Specifically considering how the building and the architects were able to negotiate a difficult site to deliver a sensitive, considered and humane spatial response.  

“From certain angles you can see how the building has bowed and moved over the past century and a half, its windows slightly out of plumb. It’s an idiosyncratic building that wears its history well and one can’t help but feel a sense of endearment towards it. It conjures up an image of a David among Goliaths, as it sits surrounded by blocks of impersonal offices and the rear façade of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, all towering above it.

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Despite the overshadowing of the site by neighbouring buildings, a soft light suffuses the internal arrangements during the day. The use of frosted acrylic screens admits light deep into the plan while maintaining a degree of privacy for users. Perhaps most impressive, however, considering that the practice was working within the constraints of a Grade II listing and the layout of a former schoolhouse, is that 11 of the 14 beds have direct proximity to a window.”

A short poem submitted for issue four of Gather Zine.

The cracks are beginning to show in the structures that make up democracies all over the world. Steadfast democratic institutions are being undermined or wholly transformed. Shifting into a strange mercurial politics. A politics rooted in historical revisionism and the death of objectivity.

At the heart of this cultural battleground is a matter of historical revisionism, the rewriting of history. These are not just conversations about “how things were”, but instead, they are much more insidious. They are attempts at rewriting a national psyche.

Following on from her critically acclaimed book, The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones joined us to offer a powerful lens on America’s current struggles around ideas of history, collective national identity and the politics of memory. 

A collaboration between Dutch platform DeDependance and The John Adams Institute we invited Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to talk about her book The 1619 Project.

For this event, I curated and moderated the discussion in collaboration with DeDependance. 

PRAISE FOR THE 1619 PROJECT