We’re delighted to announce our LFA Mentor Programme for 2025!
Now in it’s third year, the LFA Mentor Programme is returning for 2025! If you’re a first-time event organiser or just keen for guidance on how to organise an event for LFA2025, we have seven mentors on hand to help you develop your Festival activities.
Mentors are past event organisers and competition winners, all with different skills and backgrounds. Our goal as a Festival is to bring everyone into the conversation about our city, so we’ve partnered with some wonderful friends of LFA to provide guidance on event organisation, who can each provide a unique input into the process of organising an LFA event or creating an installation.
There will be a series of Mentor Surgeries and Workshops happening over the next few months – The Key Dates for 2025 can be found here.
Our LFA Mentors Surgery days are taking place on Tuesday 12 November from 1pm until 4pm and and Wednesday 5th February from 2pm until 5pm at The London Centre. To book a 20 minute slot with one of our lovely LFA Mentors, please sign up using this form here. Please provide all requested information. If you know who you’d like to speak to, let us know, otherwise tell us a little about your event and we’ll do our best to pair you up with the most relevant person. If you have any questions or would like to share more project details, please email info@londonfestivalofarchitecture.org.
Please make us aware of any requirements you may have for accessing the venue, or if you’re unable to meet in person.
Meet our mentors:
Yang Yang Chen
Yang Yang is a qualified architect and co-leads CITIZEN, the London School of Architecture’s project delivery office as well as the school’s access and outreach work alongside Roy Coupland. She has previously worked at Witherford Watson Mann Architects and Niall McLaughlin Architects. As CITIZEN, Yang Yang has recently delivered the Dalston Pavilion and public programme as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2024.
Talk to Yang Yang if you are an organiser looking to involve engagement with young people, community groups, and stakeholders. She is also happy to help any non-architect organisers or those interested in the Call to Action.
Roy Coupland
Roy is a qualified architect and co-leads CITIZEN, the London School of Architecture’s project delivery office as well as the school’s access and outreach work alongside Yang Yang Chen. CITIZEN focuses on delivering community-led projects and has recently delivered the Dalston Pavilion and public programme as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2024.
Talk to Roy if you are an organiser looking to involve engagement with young people, community groups, and stakeholders. He is also happy to help any non-architect organisers or those interested in the Call to Action.
Adrienne Lau
Adrienne is a London-based architect and designer, co-founder of Edgy Collective, focusing on revitalising urban spaces through socially and ecologically conscious design. With over a decade of experience at Heatherwick Studio following working at OMA, she has led major international projects and worked with clients such as Prada and Google.
Adrienne can help organisers with public realm installation or any physical fabrication. She will be able to walk organisers through considerations on dealing with local authorities and how to reframe recurring issues in the public realm in a progressive way.
Claire Pollock
Claire is a cultural producer with three decades of experience specialising in innovative collaboration and participation within architecture. She is currently Partnerships Lead at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects, including social impact, philanthropy and engagement.
Claire can help people in practices who are thinking about what they can bring from their projects and practice to the LFA public audience including Studio Lates. She will also be able to guide first-time organisers, arts organisations, or people wanting to engage with young people.
Rav Singh
Rav is the founder of A Little History of the Sikhs. Here he brings Sikh, Punjab and North Indian history to life through his walking tours through the streets of London and in UK and European cities.
Rav is great to talk to for organisers who would like to run a walking tour. He also specialises in community histories in the public realm for any events dealing with those aspects.
To find out more and how to book, email info@londonfestivalofarchitecture.org.
