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Rhiannon is co-founder and co-director of Common Wealth. Based in our Cardiff office, Rhiannon heads up the Welsh artistic programme. Common Wealth are a site-specific political theatre company – making work that speaks to the here and now. In 2018 Common Wealth received the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund and the New Radicals, Nesta Award.

Rhiannon has worked with National Theatre Wales, National Theatre (UK) Chapter Arts Centre, Sherman Cymru, Southbank Centre & Circus 2 Palestine. Rhiannon is a recipient of a Clore Cultural Fellowship and a Creative Wales Award. Rhiannon was a panel member on the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society chaired by Julia Unwin

Rhiannon often collaborates with co-director Evie on works across the UK and internationally. They have made work in Palestine, Chicago, Perth, Helsinki and Germany.

Shows in development include The Sea is Mine a collaboration between women in Cardiff and Jenin, Palestine about travelling beyond your circumstances and Demand the Impossible, a show about the impact of undercover policing in the UK.

Rhiannon sits on the board of the Grange Pavilion and is on the Aberystwyth Arts Advisory Panel.

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Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open-source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work, she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together.

Immy is a Co-Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE. CIVIC SQUARE is a public square, neighbourhood lab, and creative + participatory platform focused on regenerative civic and social infrastructure within neighbourhoods. Immy is part of a creative and dynamic leadership team who works alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future.

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Andrew Freear, from Yorkshire, England, is Director of Rural Studio at Auburn University.

For over two decades Freear has lived in rural Newbern, Alabama, a town with a population of 187, where he runs a program that questions the conventional education and role of architects. His students have designed and built more than 220 community buildings, homes, and parks in their under-resourced community. He is a teacher, designer, builder, advocate, and liaison between local authorities, community partners, and students.

Freear’s work has been published extensively, and he regularly lectures around the world. He has designed and built exhibits at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, the Whitney Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, as well as the Milan Triennale and the Venice Biennale.

His honors include the Ralph Erskine Award, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, and the Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Freear was a 2018 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and in 2020 received the President’s Medal from the Architectural League of New York, the League’s highest honor. In 2021, he was inducted as a National Academician into the National Academy of Design and this Fall 2022, Rural Studio received the National Design Award in Architecture / Interior Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Wajiha(Jia) is an award winning, socially conscious leader within the urban and tech sector. With a background in Sustainable Architecture & Masterplanning, UX Design and Inclusive Business Development, she has more than a decade of professional industry experience across a range of UK-international private and public sector clients. A strong believer in diverse, inclusive and community led solutions, Jia is an experienced advocate of multi-disciplinary knowledge sharing underpinned by sustainable approaches that focus on intersectional climate action. She is also a member of Green Alliance, ACAN and UN volunteer.

In all her endeavours, Jia consistently champions for innovative and positive, impactful change. She applies a cross-discipline, transparent, systems-based approach ensuring the needs and requirements of the end users, clients and wider team are well-considered. This ties into her holistic sustainability ethos and vision for the future.

Linked-IN, Website, Climate Intersections X.

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Sarah Ackland is a practising ARB registered architect at muf architecture/art, a design tutor, lecturer and a funded PhD researcher at Newcastle University.

Her PhD research explores women in space through embodied, feminist and auto-ethnographic practices, highlighting issues relating to gender and equality in the city and public space. In architectural practice, Sarah works mostly in public space design, she is interested in the politics of marginalised bodies in public space, how to make space for the many, how the ethos of the office permeates the work and navigating the space between public and private.

In 2019 Sarah received the RIBA Research fund and subsequently produced the podcast series 29% Equal which questioned ‘How to create meaningful change for women in architecture’ and addressed the erasure of women in architectural authorship.

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Charlie Edmonds, Civic Square & Future Architects Front

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Charlie Edmonds, Civic Square & Future Architects Front

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Charlie is the Dark Matter Designer at CIVIC SQUARE and a freelance writer on architecture and the built environment as it relates to labour and climate. His writing has appeared in the Architectural Review, Building Design Magazine, and The Architects' Journal. Charlie holds a Master's in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where he co-founded the Future Architects Front with Priti Mohandas. FAF is a grassroots organisation driving political action through architecture towards a future of social and ecological justice. Charlie's work at CIVIC SQUARE revolves around the challenge of retrofit: how to decarbonise our neighbourhoods at scale, and how this can be organised through hyperlocal social movements and governance.

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Dan is Principal Designer at Benham Architects, who have recently completed RIBA Award winning building ‘Grange Pavilion’. Dan is President Elect for the RSAW and is a tutor and visiting lecturer at Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University, specialising in teaching social value on the RIBA accredited master’s in architecture course. Dan has a strong passion for Welsh Housing Heritage and his strong design credentials stem from simple place making and pushing the boundaries of spatial understanding. He’s driven by how the social and community aspects of architecture can change lives.

Dan became President-elect of the RSAW and takes up the presidency in

September 2023 for a two-year term.

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As an Architect at Mace Group focused on technology and innovation, Muyiwa Oki delivers off-site

manufactured solutions for major estate public programmes as a technical assessment lead.

During his time at Grimshaw Architects, he was the founder and chair of the Multi-Ethnic Group and

Allies network and drove global cultural change for colleagues. Muyiwa was an external speaker and

mentor for aspiring architects for the POCinArchitecture, Scale Rule, Grimshaw Foundation

programme, which all exist to encourage greater social mobility within the industry.

Throughout his career, Muyiwa has worked on large-scale infrastructure projects – such as HS2

Euston and the North London heat and power project – in collaboration with public estate

department clients that have a strategic mission to revitalise neighbourhoods using design.

He presents at EDI Practice Clinics and speaks on RIBA panels, events, and radio programmes.

Muyiwa also contributes to the next generation of architects as an Ambassador for the Mayor of

London: Design Future London challenge.

Nationally he was profiled in Portrait of Black Britain, a major public exhibition by Cephas Williams

(Black British Network), which aims to be “the largest showcase ever of the contributions Black Brits

make to society”.

Muyiwa became President-elect of the RIBA on 1 September 2022 and takes up the presidency in

September 2023 for a two-year term.

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Walking tour and Co-production workshop - Rhiannon White, Common Wealth Theatre, Grange Pavilion 

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Walking tour and Co-production workshop - Rhiannon White, Common Wealth Theatre, Grange Pavilion 

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please register (limited numbers and open to public) https://aae2023CommonWealthworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk

Event kindly sponsored by Community Gateway

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ONLINE Session 2e Chairs: Julian Williams and Neil Turnball

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ONLINE Session 2e Chairs: Julian Williams and Neil Turnball

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Link to session

Online hub available in 0.15 please bring headphones

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Closing Session Bute Exhibition Room 0.66 /1630-1700

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Closing Session Bute Exhibition Room 0.66 /1630-1700

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Session 6d workshopBute 0.62 / Chair: Mhairi McVicar

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Session 6d workshopBute 0.62 / Chair: Mhairi McVicar

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Session 6c workshop Bute 0.55 / Chair: Shan Shan Hou

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Session 6c workshop Bute 0.55 / Chair: Shan Shan Hou

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Session 6b workshopBute 0.54 / Chair: Steve Coombs

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Session 6b workshopBute 0.54 / Chair: Steve Coombs

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Session 6a workshop Bute 0.52 / Chair: Dan Jary

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Session 6a workshop Bute 0.52 / Chair: Dan Jary

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Online session 5e ONLINE / Chair: Ed Green + Sarah O'Dwyer

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Online session 5e ONLINE / Chair: Ed Green + Sarah O'Dwyer

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Online hub available in 0.15 please bring headphones

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Session 5d Bute 0.62  / Chair: Melina Guirnaldos Diaz

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Session 5d Bute 0.62  / Chair: Melina Guirnaldos Diaz

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Session 5b Bute 0.54 / Chair: Magda Sibley

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Session 5b Bute 0.54 / Chair: Magda Sibley

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Session 5a Bute 0.52 / Chair: Juliet Davis

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Session 5a Bute 0.52 / Chair: Juliet Davis

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Meet in Bute Exhibition Room 0.66

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Keynote: Immy Kaur, Civic Square / Bute Exhibition Room 0.66 and Online / Chair: Chair: Rhiannon White, Common Wealth Theatre

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Keynote: Immy Kaur, Civic Square / Bute Exhibition Room 0.66 and Online / Chair: Chair: Rhiannon White, Common Wealth Theatre

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Link to join  ONLINE https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/88574170864?pwd=YUZVdWNYSHF3ZTRvRlJiaUxHMVo0dz09

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Demonstrating neighbourhood-scale civic infrastructure for social, ecological, economic, and climate transition.

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0900 Welcome from Welsh School of Architecture; aae; Charrette /Bute Exhibition Room 0.66 0900

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0900 Welcome from Welsh School of Architecture; aae; Charrette /Bute Exhibition Room 0.66 0900

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0830 Registration, coffee and round table activity / Bute Exhibition Room 0.66

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0830 Registration, coffee and round table activity / Bute Exhibition Room 0.66

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0830 Registration and coffee / Bute Exhibition Room 0.66

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0830 Registration and coffee / Bute Exhibition Room 0.66

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Conference Dinner / Mowgli Street Food, 5-10 Church Street,  Cardiff CF10 1BG / 19:30

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Conference Dinner / Mowgli Street Food, 5-10 Church Street,  Cardiff CF10 1BG / 19:30

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(Delegates who have pre-registered for dinner)

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Our Charity

We're proud to support our local house charity, Cerebral Palsy Cymru

Cerebral Palsy Cymru is a unique specialist service aiming to improve the quality of life of all children in Wales living with cerebral palsy. They provide specialist therapy for children, through their team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech & language therapists who, uniquely, work together so each child benefits from their multi-disciplinary expertise.

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Our Charity Cerebral Palsy Cymru is a unique specialist service aiming to improve the quality of life of all children in Wales living with cerebral palsy. They provide specialist therapy for children, through their team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech & language therapists who, uniquely, work together so each child benefits from their multi-disciplinary expertise.

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Films, Posters, Bute Building exhibit tour, refreshments

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Films, Posters, Bute Building exhibit tour, refreshments

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Session 3d: workshops / Bute 0.62 / Chair: Melina Guirnaldos Diaz

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Session 3d: workshops / Bute 0.62 / Chair: Melina Guirnaldos Diaz

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Session 3a: workshops / Bute 0.52 / Chair:  Mhairi McVicar

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Session 3a: workshops / Bute 0.52 / Chair:  Mhairi McVicar

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Session 3c: workshops / Bute 0.55 / Chair: Ed Green

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Session 3c: workshops / Bute 0.55 / Chair: Ed Green

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Session 3b: workshops / Bute 0.54 / Chair: Yasser Megahed

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Session 3b: workshops / Bute 0.54 / Chair: Yasser Megahed

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Session 2d: Bute 0.62 / Chair: Juliet Davis

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Session 2d: Bute 0.62 / Chair: Juliet Davis

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Session 2c: Bute 0.55 / Chair: Andrew Roberts

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Session 2c: Bute 0.55 / Chair: Andrew Roberts