A Small Studio

We have an office co-working space on 6 Norwood High Street with two large desks available for rent. The rent for the desk, which comes with keys to the studio, use of the meeting room, kitchen and 24 hour access is £300pcm , or £575pcm for both desks (VAT does not apply). If you are interested in ad-hoc use then we also provide hot desking space for £20 per day.   A graphic designer has be co-working with us for 18 months but will be leaving the space ( 😭 ) so it will become free as of February 1st 2025. You are more than welcome to pop by to see it for yourself and meet us. Norwood High Street is within the Station to Station Business Improvement District and it is a really supportive and friendly environment for work and for startups.

🌟 Young Voices, Big Impact 🌟 We’ve hosted some incredible young people in our studio through our Work Experience Programme. We had 13 students in the year 2024 (!). We also pay them during their week (£20 per day to cover food and transport). That’s why the community grant we’ve been awarded by the Norwood Forum is such brilliant news. It will help us continue this programme, and give local students the opportunity to taste life in an architecture studio. As an explanation: The Community Norwood Forum Grants are designed to enhance the wellbeing of individuals who live, work, or study in the following areas: West Dulwich, St Martins, Knights Hill, and Gipsy Hill wards. There is information about eligibility and how to apply for a week of work experience (see our website: https://lnkd.in/eBi39vQS ). So if you know of any young person interested in being immersed for 1 week in an architecture studio, please tell them about this programme. It is a difficult profession to access and we want to help young people when we can... Thank you  to the Norwood Forum, and to the schools where our students have come from : Kingsdale Foundation School, The Charter School North Dulwich, St. Joseph's School, Dunraven, Elmgreen School, St. Philomena School, City of London Academy Highbury Grove, Alleyn's School

🎉 Exciting News! We’ve Won a Grant! 🎉 Thanks to the amazing support of Norwood Forum, we’ve secured a grant to continue our Work Experience Programme into 2025. This funding will allow us to welcome 3 young people into our studio for a week each, fully covering their expenses for food and travel. We’re so grateful for this support, which will help us inspire and empower the next generation of creative minds. We really hope 2025 is a year of growth and opportunity for young people. Thank you to the Norwood Forum.

London Borough of Lambeth is on a mission to reduce the road for cars and increase the kerbside. Today, 94% of Lambeth’s kerbside is used to manage parking, but only 40% of households own a car. Installing parklets in car park bays is one way of taking over the road and give it a public use.   We were asked us to prepare a set of tools so that Lambeth residents could decide how they wanted to rearrange their local parklet. The furniture is supplied by Meristem; the space is provided by removing cards from the road; the use is decided by local residents. Nicola Doal and Poppy Knight are the people at the help of this fabulous stragtey which you can read more of here: https://lnkd.in/eAyn9ptE   One of the tools we made was a 3d printed parklet with the possible furniture combination (supplied by Meristem). It is printed the size of a shoebox so it is big enough to play with at a table of 4-6 people. The 3D filament is made from recycled hard plastics and the furniture pieces are all available for local community groups to choose from when they design their own kerbside parklet.  

This year, the RIBA published the Engagement Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work 2023, and it’s been a fantastic resource for us at A Small Studio. Public engagement is central to our ethos, and this document supports our efforts to involve stakeholders and foster public participation right from the project planning stage. By overlaying the RIBA stages of work, it outlines ‘core tasks’ and ‘advisory tasks’ for each stage, helping us integrate engagement activities into our fee proposals and scope of services. A big thank you to the RIBA team for this essential document! In the meantime, A Small Studio has been working on an engagement toolkit that focused on the very last stage (Stage 07) to understand and identify how participatory practices have (or haven’t) been successful.  We've partnered with the University of Greenwich Spatial and Digital Ecologies research centre to create an engagement toolkit, focusing on Stage 07 to evaluate the success of participatory practices. This collaboration, supported by a Regional Innovation Fund, aims to develop a framework for measuring engagement success post-regeneration. The CENTRE team was led by Professor Silvio Carta, Ed Wall and Foteini (Fenia) Papadopoulou from The University of Greenwich where research is ongoing around themes of public practices, spatial justice, and co-design. Multiple departments from London Borough of Lambeth contributed since they actively champion engagement activities across all of its departments. Especially Matthew Panou, Joana Correia Calado, Sarah Coyte, Courtney Bokulu, Nicola Doal and Catherine Walsh . We, at A Small Studio, provided the perspective of private practice, acting as the SME architectural firm that frequently leads public engagement activities on live projects. In this project we prepared a toolkit and a digital assessment model that Lambeth can use to assess the impact of their different public participation strategies. The assessment tool is highly customisable and flexible. So if you want to learn more about the project and how it can be used within your organisation just get in touch- it is open for other Local Authorities to use and that is very much our intention!  We’d be happy to share the explanatory toolkit  or speak to your team about how to use it. Just get in touch.   Thank you to The Regional Innovation Fund (RIF)! It provides an allocation from Research England specifically focused on regional/local growth agenda, taking into account broader higher education contributions to growth currently captured in regeneration data.

We are looking for a new team member to join us at A Small Studio. This post is for a RIBA part 2 architectural assistant (looking to qualify), or a recently qualified architect. Have a look at our ad on Dezeen and please forward to anyone you think would enjoy: https://lnkd.in/ep-n6QFk

We are also hiring a studio manager and material/design specialist for a six-month maternity cover in London. This can be a part-time job. We are looking for a new member of the team to join us and help the studio maintain its strong design ethos, continue fostering strong industry-wide relationships and be an exemplary model for an architecture practice that is flexible, supportive and innovative. The studio is in the process of becoming B-certified and supports good business practice. Most of our work is in London with a few international projects. We are looking for an autonomous and competent person who is pro-active, organised and enthusiastic about helping to organise and deliver a range of different projects; from community workshops to speculative in-house experiments. This is ideal for someone who has knowledge of material technology/science, graphic design skills and an interest in ethical business operations. This is a lot and varied. But we are open to suggestions and want to hear from you: What can you bring to the team? Below is our wish list and the different requirements we have within the studio. We are not expecting that a single candidate should cover all the requirements but are open to suggestions and would be interested to learn how your profile could fit into our studio. https://lnkd.in/emsnA7PA

We've just posted two separate job openings on Dezeen Jobs. One is for an architect and the other is a maternity cover for a studio manager and material/design specialist. We are open to ideas and different skillsets. Send us a CV and portfolio and tell us a few things in your cover letter: - why you are the ideal candidate for the job. -We are a studio where everyone has a different interest and passion. What would your passion be and what direction would it take the studio? -When was the last time you felt inspired by a built project. What was it and why? We look forward to hearing from you!

We've just posted two separate job openings on Dezeen Jobs. One is for an architect and the other is a maternity cover for a studio manager and material/design specialist. We are open to ideas and different skillsets. Send us a CV and portfolio and tell us a few things in your cover letter: - why you are the ideal candidate for the job. -We are a studio where everyone has a different interest and passion. What would your passion be and what direction would it take the studio? -When was the last time you felt inspired by a built project. What was it and why? We look forward to hearing from you!

We are also hiring a studio manager and material/design specialist for a six-month maternity cover in London. This can be a part-time job. We are looking for a new member of the team to join us and help the studio maintain its strong design ethos, continue fostering strong industry-wide relationships and be an exemplary model for an architecture practice that is flexible, supportive and innovative. The studio is in the process of becoming B-certified and supports good business practice. Most of our work is in London with a few international projects. We are looking for an autonomous and competent person who is pro-active, organised and enthusiastic about helping to organise and deliver a range of different projects; from community workshops to speculative in-house experiments. This is ideal for someone who has knowledge of material technology/science, graphic design skills and an interest in ethical business operations. This is a lot and varied. But we are open to suggestions and want to hear from you: What can you bring to the team? Below is our wish list and the different requirements we have within the studio. We are not expecting that a single candidate should cover all the requirements but are open to suggestions and would be interested to learn how your profile could fit into our studio. https://lnkd.in/emsnA7PA