We
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James Heartfield and James Woudhuysen are
the leading directors of audacity, and regularly broadcast on radio and
television. Both James and James write and speak more broadly, maintaining
personal websites at www.heartfield.org and www.woudhuysen.com respectively.
Kate Moorcock Abley is the managing director of
audacity, and with husband Ian Abley, an experienced architect, they manage
the projects undertaken. We are open to suggestions about projects to
undertake.
Kate Moorcock Abley, Managing Director of
audacity, and editor of audacity publications. Kate works as a researcher on
commercial and institutional programmes. A teacher by occupation, she has also
worked on the Sport Programme at the Big Lottery Fund, in the planning and
monitoring of capital and social projects. Kate invites research
proposals.
Ian Abley, Project Manager for audacity, and an
experienced site Architect. He is interested in everything between the
manufacturing of vacuum insulation and the building of mile high towers. He is
co-author of Why is construction so backward? (2004) and co-editor of
Manmade Modular Megastructures. (2006) He is planning 250 new British
towns.
James Heartfield, Director of audacity, author
of the Unpatriotic History of the Second World War, (2012) Let's
Build! - Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years, (2006)
and Green Capitalism - Manufacturing Scarcity in an age of abundance.
(2008) James enjoys public debate and speaks widely in support of industrial
development.
James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and
Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, editorial board member of the
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, and columnist for sp!ked. Director
of audacity, and co-author of Why is construction so backward? (2004)
Co-author, with Joe Kaplinsky, of Energ!se: A future for energy
innovation, (2009) and editor of Big Potatoes: the London Manifesto for
Innovation, (2012) published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. www.bigpotatoes.org
While James, James, Ian and Kate
write for www.audacity.org for free and in a fully independent spirit,
they charge clients full commercial rates for the exercise of that spirit
elsewhere. Write to abley@audacity.org
Contributors...
Graham Barnfield, 2003 Fellow of the
Wilsonian-FIU, he has written widely on US Cultural politics and policy in
1930s America. A programme leader in journalism at the University of East
London, he is an affiliate editor of Reconstruction and MagLab.
Graham is a freelance writer with experience of the booming economies of the
Middle East.
Daniel Ben-Ami, is the author of Ferraris For
All (2012), his book defending economic progress, and Cowardly
Capitalism (2001), on global finance. He has worked as a journalist for 25
years, contributing to numerous national and international publications. Daniel
argues for more growth, not less. He wants more production and consumption for
all.
Colin Davies, Professor of Architecture at
London Metropolitan University, he is the author of The Prefabricated Home
(2005), and Key Houses of the Twentieth Century (2006). Architect,
teacher, writer and historian, he believes that technology, history and theory
are closer than is normally supposed and often overlap. Colin argues for
Pattern Books.
Mark Beachill, recently graduated from the
University of East London with First Class Honours in Journalism. He is now
reading for a PhD at the University of Sunderland. He writes for UEL's journal
Rising East, and can be followed on
http://twitter.com/markbeachill and http://en-gb.facebook.com/markbeachill for
starters.
Mark Harrop, an
experienced self-employed fabricator-welder, works and lives in Horbury, near
Wakefield in West Yorkshire. He has supported the 250 New Towns Club from the
start in September 2010 and develops new events. He has an interest in
photography and appreciates the pressing need to communicate fresh political
ideas.
Owen Hatherley, researched Everyday Life,
Mass Production, Mass Politics and the Avant Garde in Weimar Germany and the
USSR, 1917-1934, his PhD at Birkbeck College, London. Owen blogs on
Architecture, Cultural Studies and Politics, and writes for Socialist
Worker, Historical Materialism, BD, New Statesman, and
Archinect.
John McKean, an architect, historian and critic,
has taught for many years. He is the author of various books and many essays on
architecture, but mostly about episodes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
design. His work is in the study of architecture - of urban places, of
designers, and often of individual buildings and their insides.
Tony Pierce, with over 30 years experience in
local government, is the Director of Urbisnet Consulting Limited; for clients
looking for a systems-thinking approach to the management and improvement of
town planning, housing, and regeneration services. He believes in planning
strategically on a scale to advance the pace of architectural production.
Jonathan Schwinge was a scholarship diploma
student at the Architectural Association. His "Airlander" project was exhibited
in the Ford Journey Zone at the Millennium Dome in 2000. Working for various
commercial architects he started Schwinge Ltd in 2005, as an inventive design
and technology driven office. He has designed a Mile High Tower.
Photographers...
audacity organises
authoritative international research, engaging seminars, large conferences, and
a provocative website. Our work would have been far less successful without the
support given by a number of professional photographers, who we heartily
recommend.
Elisabeth Blanchet loves taking pictures of people
and places. Documenting other people's lives has become her job. Based in
London she regularly works with Time Out London and other UK papers and
magazines. She contributes to the continental press, such as Le Figaro,
Le Soir, l'Agefi, Cote Ouest, Marie-Claire, and
Groupe Bayard-Presse.
Andrew Brooks is a photographer, a conceptual
digital artist and film maker living and working in Manchester. He says '... no
matter how much digital application is going on, the atmosphere and feel of a
picture is always the most important thing.' Andrews creative process
often results in capturing hundreds of images to create a complete
work.
Susan Craig-Greene works for The Advocacy Project.
Her role is to coordinate and promote literacy projects for secondary
school-aged children and adults, not only through traditional literacy classes
but also by making learning more accessible through computers and online
learning resources. Susan works closely with Gypsies and Travellers.
Simon Punter works for advertising agencies,
designers, magazine and book publishers, engineers, and government agencies. He
works on location and from his 500 square foot studio space in Hove, near
Brighton. His work is completely colour managed, and he welcomes unusual
assignments. He has recently been photographing from cranes.
Mary Turner is an award winning photographer based
in the South East of England. For the past six years she has worked for
regional and national newspapers and magazines in the UK. Mary currently
freelances for several clients. She is widely travelled and experienced at
working with a wide variety of subjects both in the UK and
abroad.
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