Makers and Mentors
To celebrate the opening of The Black & White Building in Winter 2022, TOG partnered with POoR Collective to launch the Makers & Mentors programme. This new mentorship scheme was created to help young designers grow their experience, not just through study, but by designing and creating a physical piece in partnership with an experienced mentor.
The open call invited students in their second and third years of study to apply. POoR managed the interview and selection process before selecting three students. In the end Isobel Browne-Wilkinson, a student of 3D design & craft at the University of Brighton, was paired with furniture maker Sebastian Cox; Alejandro Canales, a second-year architecture student at Central St Martins, UAL, worked with Uruguayan-born designer and curator Matteo Fogale; and Emilie-Gabrielle Lemaitre-Downton, a second-year product design student at Ravensbourne University, was mentored by Andu Masebo, who specialises in carpentry and metalwork. The students would then go on to create furniture that would live in The Black & White Building.
Client: The Office Group
Location: Across London
Status: Complete
Sector: Programme
Procurement: Private
Team: TOG, Sebastian Cox, Andu Masebo, Matteo Fogale, Daytrip Studios, Waugh Thistleton Architects
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Press:
Design Week
Architects' Journal
Dezeen
The Office Group
Youtube
