It is held in partnership with the UK based international architectural company RMJM and supported by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Link to accept invitation.

The evening also celebrated the launch of 'Architecture for Everyone' a new national 3-year campaign led by the Trust and RMJM to encourage young people to discover ways in which their creative ability can be harnessed to renew urban space.    

This years speakers:

Peter Morrison
CEO, RMJM Group Limited
Peter Morrison is CEO of RMJM Group Limited, an appointment he took up in August 2006 following three years as a non-executive director of the company. His professional background in private equity and corporate finance has given him much M&A experience covering a range of commercial and industry sectors. A law graduate, Peter holds an MBA from Imperial College, London. He has served with the British Army, seeing active duty in Northern Ireland. A regular speaker at international conferences, Peter has addressed the annual Environmental Financial Consulting Group in New York and lectured at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Wayne Hemingway MBE
Hemingway Design
Wayne set up Hemingway Design, specialising in affordable and social design, after selling his award winning design label Red or Dead. Of Hemingway Design's numerous projects, their highest profile one is The Staiths South Bank, an award winning 800 property mass market housing project on Tyneside for Taylor Wimpey Homes where Hemingway Design are involved from the master planning, the architecture through to the landscaping and marketing of this groundbreaking project. Wayne is also the Chairman of Building for Life, a CABE funded organisation. He is a writer for architectural and housing publications as well as a judge of international design competitions including the regeneration of Byker in Newcastle and Salford in Greater Manchester, the Stirling Prize, Europan and is also a TV design commentator.

Yaw (Dk) Osseo-Asare
Harvard College, USA
Yaw (Dk) Osseo-Asare is a third-year student in the Master in Architecture I program at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard. Here he revitalised the student organisation ‘Social Change and Activism’ and was instrumental in the creation of the ‘Design Initiative for Youth’ program, where he works with a group of 8th grade students to excite them about potential futures in design. He has worked as a Community Service Fellow at the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) in Massachusetts, a “by teens, for teens multicultural safe haven for youth development and organising.” Here he worked as a project designer with the UTEC youth on a renovation and addition to a recently acquired historic church, transforming it into a new youth centre building. The scale of this project was in excess of five million dollars. Dk was also instrumental in connecting GSD students to a community project to design and assist in the construction of a new multipurpose community centre in Khayelitsha, South Africa. He has represented the GSD at various conferences and recently organised a symposium, FuturePresent, an initiative at the GSD to increase diversity in the design professions.

Caroline Lucas, MEP
Caroline has been a Green Party MEP for South East England since 1999. She’s a Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety whose work has included amending legislation to strengthen the case against GM crops, pushing for stricter controls on the regulation of chemicals, leading on a Parliament report designed to reduce the impact of aviation on climate change and calling for the precautionary principle to be a priority when it comes to environmental and human health. As a Member of the Committee on International Trade her recent work includes being rapporteur for a report on EU/China Trade relations. Caroline is also President of the Globalisation Intergroup and a Member of the European Parliament’s delegation to Palestine. Her other areas of expertise include local food, demilitarisation of the EU and animal welfare. Recent publications include the pamphlet Taking the Cons out of the Constitution, a report, Fuelling the Food Crisis – The Impact of Peak Oil on Food Security, and Green Alternatives to Globalisation: a manifesto co-authored with Mike Woodin.

Sarah Ebanja (Discussion Chair)
Chair, Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust; and Deputy Chief Executive and Group Director, London Development Agency
Sarah joined the LDA in October 2006. Her current responsibilities include the LDA’s role in place making regeneration through the design and development of its land interests and other opportunities. Sarah’s brief will be changing in September 2008 and she will lead the Agency’s work with regards to Skills, Youth and Jobs (via Business Growth). Prior to joining LDA Sarah spent 5 years as Islington Council’s lead chief officer for all matters relating to the £700 million + mixed-use Arsenal Development scheme the centre-piece of which is the new Emirates Stadium and which also includes 3,000 new homes, 30,000+ sq metres of business space and a state of the art Waste & Recycling facility.