Conference
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Hildrey Studio is an award-winning design studio that uses architectural skills to improve our environment through the design of buildings, services, landscape, and art, particularly interested in social impact, complex systems, applied research, and cross-discipline collaboration. Chris Hildrey discusses ProxyAddress - a system that allows those faced with homelessness to avoid being severed from support the moment they lose an address.
About the lecture:
Chris Hildrey (b.1984) is an architect based in London. He is the director of Hildrey Studio and founder of ProxyAddress, a social enterprise providing stable address details to people facing homelessness in order to access services and support. In addition to being named a Designer in Residence at the Design Museum and an elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architect's President's Medal for Research, the D&AD Award for Humanitarian Aid, and the Innovation in Politics Award for Human Rights. His work has been named one of WIRED's '18 things that made the world a better place in 2018', one of the Beazley Designs of the Year, and one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2021.
