Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Indy Johar

Also working within:
Environmentalism & Well-being
Policy Experts
He/Him
Based: London
Indy is focused on the strategic design of new super scale civic assets for transition - specifically at the intersection of financing, contracting and governance for deeply democratic futures. Indy is co-founder of darkmatterlabs.org and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00, a founding director of open systems lab (digitising planning), seeded WikiHouse (open source housing) and Open Desk (open source furniture company) Indy is a non-executive international Director of the BloxHub (Denmark Copenhagen) - the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization and was 2016-17 Graham Willis Visiting Professorship at Sheffield University. He was also Studio Master at the Architectural Association - 2019-2020, UNDP Innovation Facility Advisory Board Member 2016-20 and RIBA Trustee 2017-20. He has taught & lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School. Most recently, he was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022.
“Living in a utopia within your mind is good because you’re not just imagining what we live in now and the systems we live in now, the inequality we live with now - you’re actually thinking, ‘This is not the best it can be, it can be better’.”