Akil Scafe-Smith
Akil is a director of RESOLVE Collective, an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology, and art to address social challenges.
They have delivered numerous projects, workshops, publications, and talks in the UK and across the world, all of which look toward realising just and equitable visions of change in our built environment. RESOLVE are currently the commissioned artists as part of a forthcoming group exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, resident artists at Camberwell Space, part of University Arts London, and have recently completed exhibitions at Tate Liverpool and the Design Museum and have co-created community spaces with young people in Nelson with In-Situ in Pendle, and residents in Angell Town in Brixton.
Alongside his RESOLVE colleague Seth, he is a Unit Leader at the Architectural Association, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a previous research fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
Akil has a background in urban design and is a Public Practice alumnus, having been part of the first cohort of Public Practice, an initiative supported by the Mayor of London that places a new generation of urban practitioners within local government to shape places for the public good. Under this initiative he worked as a project officer in the London Borough of Croydon’s Spatial Planning team. He also worked as a researcher for the London School of Economics with Dr. Julia King, working with young people in the London Borough of Brent to co-design a public space in Wembley Park and an accompanying set of policy recommendations. In addition to this, he is a trustee at The Mosaic Rooms gallery in London.