Adrienne Bennie is a multidisciplinary researcher, educator, and artist-designer based in London, whose work focuses on socially responsible design and its role in addressing societal inequalities. Her practice-based PhD in Design, titled "Interrogative Design as a Means for Confronting Hostile Architecture," explores the influence of spatial design on social outcomes, particularly within the context of homelessness in London. Utilising methodologies such as social, speculative, and interrogative design, her research challenges traditional perceptions of public and domestic spaces, with a focus on the power dynamics embedded in hostile architecture.

In her current role as Senior Lecturer in Critical Practice on BA (Hons) Product & Furniture Design at the University of the Arts London, she leads the critical practice program for all year groups. Her teaching philosophy is informed by her research, and she is dedicated to creating inclusive learning environments that empower students from diverse backgrounds. She has also held many academic positions including roles as an Associate Lecturer in MA Architecture & MA Interior Design at the University for the Creative Arts and as a Lecturer at Regent’s University London, contributing to both undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Adrienne’s research and teaching are further supported by her success in securing funding, including the Knowledge Exchange Local Business Grant and the Teaching and Learning EDI Fund. Her future research aims to deepen the exploration of the intersections between design, social justice, and co-design and participatory methods, focusing on evidence-based interventions that create tangible social impact. Adrienne is also an active contributor to academic and public discourse, having presented her work in various international exhibitions, conferences and webinars.

Adrienne welcomes PhD supervision in areas which include:

• Design for social impact, inclusive futures, and community-led participatory methods addressing social and urban challenges.
• Spatial design, the politics of place, and decolonising dominant spatial narratives.
• Critical, speculative, and interdisciplinary design research across art, architecture, and society.
• Design grounded in lived experience and collaborative approaches.

I am an educator, researcher and architectural historian. At UAL I hold two Senior Lecturer posts. The first is History and Theory Coordinator for BA Interior and Spatial Design at Camberwell College of Arts, where my teaching addresses questions of critical theory, architectural history, spatial writing and research methodologies. My second post is Unit Lead for Creative Unions, Central Saint Martins' undergraduate collaborative unit, in which I facilitate cross-disciplinary conversations around environmentally and socially engaged creative practice.

In 2021 I completed my PhD which examined the architecture of progressive education in twentieth-century England. Its creative research method comprised archival research, site-based investigation, oral history interviews, performance writing, as well as a participatory, live construction and performance project for thirty Year 6 students and their teachers in south London. I was awarded a PhD Scholarship from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) in 2017 to complete the research.

I have presented my architectural history research at academic conferences (SAHGB, 2018; The Bartlett School of Architecture, 2020) and it has been published in the edited volume Reconstruction (Bloomsbury, 2023). My educational research on collaborative pedagogy and practice has also been published in an edited volume (Routledge, 2020) and in two journals (JUTLP, 2022; ADCHE, 2023). I am currently working on revising my PhD into an open access digital book, in between enjoying east London's parks and dynamic vinyasa.

Colin Priest is a Senior Lecturer on MA Interior and Spatial Design (2020-present) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate Interior and Spatial Design at Camberwell College of Arts and was formerly Course Leader for BA Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea College of Arts (2012-2020). He is also co-founder of Live Projects Network (2011-present), a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and recipient of UAL Teaching Awards (2016, 2019, 2025). He has published widely on the subject of collaborative pedagogy and live project teaching in and outside the curriculum. 

His interdisciplinary place-based research practice incorporates moving-image, installation, writing, archival material and wayfinding. Assembling found and made artefacts, media and narratives, public encounters gently rub fragments of time and space, manifesting as conversation, intervention, publication and gathering. His practice evolves around lively collaborative action and the continual negotiation of the built environment on a site-by-site basis. Location-led research seeks to underscore a sense of place, a shared responsibility toward material, the everyday and architectural heritage. His work has been exhibited in various institutions and public settings, across the UK and further afield. 

Shibboleth is an educator, researcher, and activist. 

Shibboleth is Course Leader of BA (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design at the University of the Arts London, a higher education leader with Citizens UK working with communities to win change, and a PhD candidate in Educational Research at Lancaster University investigating students’ thinking through mapping to develop a cartosemiotic pedagogy in and for higher education.

Shibboleth's scholarship takes the form of exhibitions, events, conference presentations and publications on counter-mapping, community organising and climate justice. Shibboleth is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a UAL Senior Teaching Scholar, an award acknowledging her innovative practice and research integrating live project pedagogy into the curriculum. 

AA Dipl, RIBA I & II, Pgcert Learning and Teaching (dist), MRes Landscape & Urbanism, UAL Senior Teaching Scholar, Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy