Jess Carter - Communications Lead, Bristol Housing Festival
Jess is an experienced writer, communicator and digital marketer, and particularly enjoys working on projects that aim to benefit society. Alongside her qualifications in English and Public Relations, she completed an MSc Sociology last year and is fascinated by people’s stories and the collective narratives of communities and cities. Jess lives in the Dings with her housemate and enjoys frequent adventures to new places.
Susan Cataldi - West of England Hub Manager, Community Led Homes West
Susan has 15 years of experience working in the public sector within healthcare, specialising in project and business change management. Having experienced first hand the benefits and disadvantages of social housing, and the resilience it takes to overcome housing barriers and building communities, it’s become the driving force behind her passion for community-led housing. She’s set up a community café in Bristol and more recently her position as CLHWEST Hub Manager in 2019 has provided her with the determination and understanding to achieve a sustainable and positive change through community housing.
Trina Chakravarti - Project Director, Building Better at National Housing Federation
Trina co-founded Building Better with four housing association colleagues during the National Housing Federation's Greenhouse programme in 2018. Since then Building Better has grown to become an alliance of 25 organisations committed to delivering the highest quality housing through MMC with aggregation and collaboration at its heart.
Gary Clark - Regional Leader of Science + Technology, HOK's London Studio
With a career spanning over three decades, Gary has worked for some of the UK’s most highly respected practices on significant projects such as The Wellcome Trust Headquarters in London, the Jubilee Campus for Nottingham University and, more recently, the award-winning and highly ambitious Gasholders London residential apartments for King’s Cross Central Ltd. Partnership. Gary serves as a visiting professor of sustainable architecture at Queens University Belfast and frequently advises the UK Government on sustainable policy. He is also Chair of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Sustainable Futures Group. Gary has helped shape the organisation’s Declaration of Environment and Climate Emergency, the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge and a suite of new sustainability guidance to support the RIBA Plan of Work.
Molly Claypool - Director, Automated Architecture
Mollie Claypool is an architecture theorist and educator working on issues of social justice including the future of housing, labour and work, concerned specifically with the implications of new technologies and automation on architectural production and disciplinary social practices. She is Director of Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR) and Co-Director of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where she has been a Lecturer since 2015. Mollie is co-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future” (2019).
Cllr Asher Craig - Deputy Mayor (Communities, Equalities and Public Health), St George West Ward, Bristol City Council
Asher was elected as the Labour Councillor for St George West, Bristol in May 2016 and appointed to the Cabinet with the wide reaching portfolio of Neighbourhoods in August 2016. In March 2017 Asher stepped into the new role of Deputy Mayor – Communities, bringing into & elevating Public Health within her new portfolio. Asher is a community activist, leader and local politician, championing the needs of the voice-less, with a particular emphasis on social, economic & racial justice.
Graeme Culliton - Managing Director, BoKlok UK
Graeme has worked in many sectors across the construction sector. He now leads BoKlok Housing in the UK. BoKlok is a Joint Venture between Skanska and IKEA and will be delivering their Quality, Sustainable Low Cost Homes for all in Bristol in 2021. He is passionate about lowering the cost for homes in the UK whilst increasing the quality and providing great communities for people to live.
