Making Together

For over fifteen years Melissa has worked across urbanism, the arts, and public participation. She is Director of We Can Make at Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol. We Can Make is a CIC that designs and delivers innovative approaches to citizen-led housing, including unlocking micro-sites for affordable homes and using digital design and fabrication technologies to empower communities. Melissa is also a Commissioner on the No Place Left Behind Commission and Co-Convenor of Redcliffe Residents Action Group & Neighbourhood Forum.

Amahra Spence is a cultural producer, artist and founder of MAIA. In 2013, she set up the organisation to support artists in striving for justice, through resource redistribution and building social infrastructure. MAIA are developing a series of spaces that redistribute the cultural sector's hospitality spend to invest in systemically underinvested-in communities. In 2020, Amahra established the Black Land & Spatial Justice project following a campaign which raised over £30,000. She was also invited to join England’s first Land Commission, working with the Liverpool City Region Mayor to review and suggest uses for public land for community wealth building.

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).

Professor Jacqui Glass is Chair in Construction Management, at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, in University College London and Vice Dean Research for the Bartlett Faculty. She has published over 150 papers, managed c. £10m of funding (from research councils and industry) and supervised more than 20 doctoral students to completion. In so doing she has attended to research spanning strategy, procurement, standards, values, and accounting for sustainability. Her specialism is responsible and ethical sourcing, which relates to material and product supply chains, and in 2018 she was named in the Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery Influencers.