Architect | Founder, ProxyAddress | Director, Hildrey Studio | Trustee, Museum of Architecture | TIME Magazine 100 Best Inventions
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Wow! Honoured to see @ProxyAddress named as one of @TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2021! Here's to helping many more people escape the Catch-22 of losing an address.
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🚨 @ProxyAddress has been shortlisted in the Seoul Design Awards and public voting is now open! It'd mean a lot if you could find the time to vote for us and/or share this with others!
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Sometimes, the smallest changes make the biggest impact. Check out our latest UNPOLITICS episode where @chrishildrey explains how a simple address can unlock new opportunities for those facing homelessness.
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#Podcast #Homelessness #SocialImpact
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We're thrilled to announce the new Design Council Expert network! With 240+ designers across multiple disciplines from fashion to policy, they'll champion our #DesignForPlanet mission, aiming to galvanise the UK's 1.97M designers towards net zero. Welcome to the team! 🌍✨
Reports like this show the need for a rebalancing of funding, with specific allocations for local grassroots charities. We need policies that recognise and support small charities and provide for maximum impact.
🚨 The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of small charities, yet their financial struggles have only worsened. Post-pandemic, small charities saw a £4.6B decline in funding, while larger charities experienced a £4.5B increase.
🏡 Grassroots organizations know their communities best, but they often lack the resources to compete with larger charities for funding. 79% of UK adults agree that small, local charities are often overlooked and under-resourced csjfoundation.org.uk/wp-cont…
💰 Despite their crucial role in addressing poverty, small charities in the UK are severely underfunded. Government funding has decreased by £413M since 2013, pushing many to operate at a loss. @CSJFoundation
📊 New report from @CSJFoundation reveals a stark imbalance in UK's charity sector. 85% of all charitable income goes to just 4% of registered charities, leaving grassroots organizations struggling to survive. #Charity #UKCharities
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Hundreds of students at the Bartlett School of Architecture have staged a protest after a ‘well-known and loved’ security guard was moved away from the position he has worked in for many years bit.ly/485oQEK
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Call to arms for designers/architects from @chrishildrey of Proxy Address @L_D_F "We have to use less and create more intangible value. That's design."
Really enjoyed speaking with @g_kafka about the @ProxyAddress story so far. Kudos to George for his amazing write up and the decision to use @cafeartuk participants' beautiful images. 👏 #TechForGood #socialimpact #homelessness
Without an address, it's hard to exist. Architect @chrishildrey designed @ProxyAddress as a system to redistribute postal addresses to people experiencing homelessness. Now the challenge is adapting it to local councils.
Read the full story here:
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This recent article reminds me of @TomCrewe1's incredible piece in @LRB from 2016, The Strange Death of Municipal Britain: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n24/…. A chilling article which has inspired me ever since. Public services don't lose money; they cost money.
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🎉"results the like of which I've never seen in 2 decades reporting on housing"
📢 Great to read such positive feedback! @hannahfearn's analysis of the @ProxyAddress pilot in @insidehousing shows how it's making a tangible impact helping people escape homelessness. Link below!
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🚨 Amazing residency opportunity! 🚨
The Future Observatory at @DesignMuseum has launched the latest Design Researchers in Residence programme! This year the brief is 'Solar'. Read more about it here: futureobservatory.org/resear…
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Really exciting to see @ProxyAddress in the permanent design gallery of the newly refurbished Young V&A!
Congratulations to everyone at @young_vam on creating something so special.
#youngvam #design
✍ Really enjoyed writing this piece for @archined on architecture and its potential for impact. Bedankt!
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A hyper-local social infrastructure of guardians to protect and nurture care-leavers
Garden Family by @tonkinliu Studio Mama, @HildreyStudio, Under One Sky Together
Vote for any of the projects to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice by voting via our profile link
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"I think it’s really inspiring when we look at solutions that are dimensional and go beyond just the built fabric of our towns and cities.”
@ProxyAddress has been recognised as a stand-out solution to homelessness by @DavidsonPrize ❤️️ da-is.us/40u0hy5
