Meet Efua Boakye, Hollie Douglas, Hadeel Eltayeb, Lena Lali, Akif Rahman, Henna Shah, Angus Taylor, Qinxue Wang & Chisei Ye

Efua Boakye

Efua Boakye is a Part 1 graduate from Kingston University. She tells stories about people who inhabit forgotten urban spaces, and has contributed annotations to the platform Women Writing Architecture.

Hollie Douglas

Hollie Douglas is a writer and curator. Her interests lie at the intersection of art and the built environment. At UCL, her MA in Material and Visual Culture examined grassroots infrastructures countering the disappearance of London’s public spaces.

Hadeel Eltayeb

Hadeel Eltayeb is a writer, oral historian and curator at the Design Museum. She is interested in cultural identities and urban memory. Her research into archival hauntings explores narratives of ownership and tensions between individual and collective remembering.

Lena Lali

Lena Lali studies at the Architectural Association. She graduated from Kingston University and previously worked for 6a architects. Her research explores her Amazigh-Mozabite heritage through language and landscape. She co-curated a collection for Open House London 2023.

Akif Rahman

Akif Rahman studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture. He is a part of Cor, a student-led initiative focused on experimental pedagogy, and curated Expressions of Resilience, a space celebrating art about protest, placemaking and community.

Henna Shah

Henna Shah is a design coordinator who graduated from the Canterbury School of Architecture. Her interest is in sacred spaces as communal environments. She mentors for the Girls’ Network and writes poetry inspired by Sufism and twentieth-century dandyism.

Angus Taylor

Angus Taylor is an architectural designer at Conrad Koslowsky Architects and a lecturer at the University of Brighton. His research investigates the dynamics of the global tech industry and related struggles around resource justice and urban development politics in Southeast Asia.

Qinxue Wang

Qinxue Wang is an urban practitioner who studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Her research compares Western and Buddhist botanical knowledge systems, examining the role of herbaria in shaping power dynamics and reimagining a more-than-human network.

Chisei Ye

Chisei Ye is an architectural designer and illustrator. He graduated from the Architectural Association, where he researched how local festivals impact community rebuilding and therapy in rural Japan. His illustrations have featured in the AA Garden and cafés in New York City.