Whitechapel Gallery is a ground-breaking arts institution located in the heart of London’s East End – one of the most diverse and creative quarters in the world. Locally embedded and globally connected, the Gallery was founded in 1901 to enrich the cultural offer for the people of East London.

For 30 years, Cardboard Citizens has used theatre to transform lives impacted by homelessness. Founded in London’s ‘Cardboard City’ (now the site of the IMAX cinema in Waterloo), they create theatre, art and training with and for people experiencing homelessness, poverty and inequity that explores, interrogates and challenges the injustices that are most alive in our world today. 

Cardboard Citizens believes that theatre and art can transform; that it can challenge the individual to grow and ignite a fire in the belly of wider society to change. They create spaces where communities come together to heal, connect, find joy and create new possibilities, delivering workshops and public performances at their base in Whitechapel and in other arts and community settings across the UK. 

Freedom Press bookshop is Britain’s largest anarchist bookshop, stocking thousands of books, newspapers and pamphlets covering topics from history to sex, philosophy to workers’ struggles, fiction to anti-fascism.

RESOLVE is an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. We have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across Europe, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. 

Msoma Architects is a London and Nairobi-based architecture practice led by Bushra Mohamed. Our work aims to reflect cultural identities architecturally and spatially. We do this by foregrounding diasporic communities and synthesising themes of decolonisation and decarbonisation within our built environment. Our sustainability agenda considers social as well as carbon impact to ensure a more equitable future for our cities.

Our current projects are focused on housing, exhibitions, public space and cultural buildings. Teaching and research are an integral part of the practice, in addition to teaching at UK universities, the practice is currently carrying out a research project on African housing typologies, a forthcoming publication is due in June 2024.