Mission

My role over the past decade has been to build capacities within land-based organisations, primarily around urban affordable housing and mechanisms for holding land in the commons. I write about, and run workshops on, group dynamics, decision-making, housing finance, incorporation approaches, legal structures, stakeholder mapping, business planning, and visioning.

Over the years Iโ€™ve been involved in many highly credible land bids for alternative urban visions and these have taught me a lot about what weโ€™re up against! ๐Ÿฅณ

This project experience has allowed me to develop expertise into long-term governance vehicles for transitioning and managing commons assets such as housing and other social goods.

I'm driven by the belief that to unlock collective imagination for equitable societies we will have to remove structural barriers preventing people from connecting with one another...and we need to plant A LOT of trees ๐ŸŒณ (or even better make sure the older sequestration champs can keep growing)

Education

PhD, City Planning, Oxford Brookes (2016-)
MA, Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes (2013)
PgDip Architecture (RIBA Pt.II), Oxford Brookes (2010-12)
BArch Architecture (RIBA Pt.I), Leicester School of Architecture (2006-09)
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Training

Decision-making
Certified Agile Leaders Training (2023) ๐Ÿ”—
Reframing Conflict - One day training with Outlandish (2022) ๐Ÿ”—
Sociocracy Practitioners Community (Weekly activities Jan-July 21) ๐Ÿ”—
How to DAO with Stephen Reid - 4 week course (Sep-Oct 21) ๐Ÿ”—
Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance - 6 week course (Apr-May 21) ๐Ÿ”—
Organization Design Masterclass, Supermarkt Berlin (Oct 20) ๐Ÿ”—
Nonviolent Communication: Two-day Foundations Training, Shared Space (2016) ๐Ÿ”—
Sociocracy 3.0 Foundations Course, James Priest (2015)
City Development
Pamwin Development Modelling Training, M3 (2020)
Accredited CLH Adviser with Chartered Institute of Housing (2018)
The One Planet Living Framework, Training, Oxford (2017)
Teaching Certification, Oxford Brookes University (2017)
Academia
Qualitative Methods and Inquiry by Design (Feb-May 16)
The Philosophy of Research (Sep-Dec 16)
ArcGIS Training - Mapping analytics software (April 16)
SPSS Training - Statistics software - (Mar 16)
Nvivo Training - Qualitative analysis software (Mar 16)

Organisations

Oasa
Co-founder (Jan 2022 - Present)
A Swiss Association developing Europe's first blockchain-based regenerative ecovillages.
Oxford Brookes University
Doctoral Student (2016 - Present)
PhD on the marketisation of citizen-led affordable housing delivery in English cities.
Dark Matter Labs
Strategic Designer (April 2023 - Sep 2024)
Contributing to projects on the future of property, Co-lead Civic Tech Studio
Transition by Design
Director (2014 - 2024)
Leadership roles within a not-for-profit architecture practice with a focus on Passivhaus housing and retrofit. I previously held lead roles for People Operations, Research and Consultancy. Non-executive from April 2023.
Cohohub
Co-founder (2017-2023)
Founding an enabling advisory hub for Community-Led Housing in the Thames Valley area (Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire) which took on ยฃ150k government seed funding and has worked with over 50 citizen-led groups.

Contributor

๐ŸŒ† The Center for CLT Innovation, Research and Teaching Working Group (2020-22)
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Sociocracy 3.0 Practitioners Community (2020-21)
๐Ÿฟ Popcorn (now Vaultcraft) - DAO Governance of a regenerative yield optimizing protocol
๐Ÿ›ถ BASIN, Steward, (climate restoration focused real estate)
๐ŸŽ Token Engineering Commons, Graviton (training allows me to offer facilitation and mediation to distributed groups)
๐Ÿƒ ReFiDAO, Summer 2022 Founders Cohort, Real World Assets Circle
๐Ÿ˜๏ธ Regen Civics Alliance, 2022 Cohort Project including tokenomics and governance training
๐ŸŒฑ Unearthing Common Ground, Cohort #01 est. Spring 2023. Six-week learning journey with the Center for CLT Innovation to teach CLTs about web3 and connect web3 participants to real projects.
๐Ÿงฎ The Commons Credit Working Group, Research Team (Dec 2023- ). Designing methodology for quantifying and selling certified impact of land stewardship.
๐Ÿฆ Peopleโ€™s Land Bank, Core Team (Nov 2021- ). Creating the UKโ€™s first tokenised stewardship entity at Salt Cross Garden Village.
๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Who Owns Oxford?, Coordinator (2020- ). Leading a group of local citizens to map and tell stories of ownership.

Speaking

May 25 - Fire in the Mountains Festival 2025, Wales
Jun 25 - ISEE Degrowth Conference 2025, Oslo
Jun 25 - AI Builders, Berlin
Jun 25 - Who Owns The City?, Berlin
Jun 25 - Funding the Commons Berlin Forum 2025
Nov 24 - Devcon 2024 ๐Ÿ”—
Nov 24 - d/acc Week, Unbounding Civic Spaces: Horizons of spatial sandboxing ๐Ÿ”—
Oct 24 - Edge City Chiang Mai ๐Ÿ”—
Mar 23 - ICP Code 2 Community Hackathon, Berlin ๐Ÿ”—
Oct 23 - Civic Tech Forum, Dark Matter Labs ๐Ÿ”—
Sep 23 - Funding the Commons ๐Ÿ”—
May 23 - Salzburg Global Fellow, "Connecting Capital to Communities: How Investors Harness Financial Markets for Essential Social Infrastructure.โ€ ๐Ÿ”—
Nov 22 - RIBA Guerrilla Tactics CPD - โ€˜Opportunities in community-led housingโ€™
Nov 22 - Accidental Gods [Podcast ๐Ÿ”—]
Oct 22 - The Ownership Economy [Podcast ๐Ÿ”—]
Sep 22 - Regens Unite Berlin - Presentation on OASA and Traditional Dream Factory
May 22 - Regens Unite Brussels - Presentation on Community Land Trusts and web3
Mar 22 - Oxford-Cambridge Arc Stewardship Event - Keynote (Slides)
Jan 22 - UK Local Authorities CLH Working Group - Presentation on land stewardship and Garden Communities
Nov 21 - DevX Conference - Cohousing Panel
Oct 21 - Re:Encrypt, panel on web3 land projects
Oct 21 - Scaling Citizen-led Housing in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Panellist
Oct 21 - Degentrify Berlin
May 21 - Thames Valley Housing Festival - Organiser, facilitator
Feb 21 - Kent CLH Hub - 2hr workshop on CLH case studies and Garden Communities - Programme
Mar 20 - Ethics in Professional Practice (Annual lecture at Oxford Brookes)
Mar 19 - 10x10 Cร psules d'Innovaciรณ Social, Barcelona - The English CLT Movement (Slides)
Mar 19 - Ethics in Professional Practice (Annual lecture at Oxford Brookes)
Nov 18 - Festival of Social Sciences, Sheffield - Presentation
Oct 18 - Kellogg College Homelessness Conference
May 18 - Isle of Wight Hub Launch - Introduction to CLH o.b.o National CLT Network - (Slides)
Feb 18 - Surrey Hub Launch - Introduction to CLH o.b.o National CLT Network - (Slides)
Oct 17 - Hacktionlab - Who Owns Oxford (Slides)
Sep 17 - Tirana ENHCR (European Network of Housing Research) Summer Conference, Albania, Paper presented
Apr 17 - Marmalade conference, Oxford
Mar 17-present - Ethics in Professional Practice (Annual lecture at Oxford Brookes)
Jan 16 - ESRC Collaborative Housing and Community Resilience seminar, Panellist