Speakers

Greg Frey
Greg Frey is an environmental activist based in the UK. He has helped organise and participated in Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain protests, and he is currently supporting Just Stop Oil. He has written about democracy, climate and protest for The Trouble, Novara Media and other outlets. 

Kam Rehal

Kam Rehal is Lecturer and Programme Leader for Graphic and Digital Design at the School of Design, University of Greenwich and a PhD candidate in the RCA School of Communication. His research is located at the intersection of geographic and social ‘space’. Kam is engaged in a ‘slow residency’ within an allotment garden in Tonbridge, Kent, UK, employing artistic and designerly methods of drawing, writing, carving and making as ways of relating to a lived environment and the seasonal practices of its inhabitants. Kam’s research questions existing approaches to practising and performing space and the role and responsibility of the subjective researcher within local communities. 

Susan Young

Susan Young is currently exploring the therapeutic potential of animation in relation to psychological trauma at the Royal College of Art through a practice-based research degree. Her films, title sequences, music videos and commercials have been screened extensively at international film festivals and on television, and she has regularly been called on to judge films in competition at animation festivals worldwide.

Colin Polwarth (facilitating)

Colin Polwarth leverages his experience in urban design with the RCA transdisciplinary knowledge for his PhD by project of which this symposium is a part. Colin is a registered architect with over 25 years of experience in the design and management of a wide variety of projects. He is Director of Studio Colin Polwarth a multi-award-winning practice that specialises in architecture, infrastructure design, urban design, master planning, art through transdisciplinary processes.

Supervisors

Dr Jon Goodbun RCA link here https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-jon-clendenning-goodbun/

Dr Artur Mausbach RCA link here https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-artur-grisanti-mausbach/

PhD program

Dr. Ines Weizman Head of PhD Programme School of Architecture Research RCA link here https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-ines-weizman/