Rhianon Morgan Hatch

Biography

Rhianon Morgan-Hatch is an architect, researcher and educator. Her practice explores critical spatial practice at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and ecology. From 2020-2023 she was a Research Fellow for Central Saint Martins (UAL) on EU Horizon 2020 funded research project T-Factor: Participatory Urban Futures, Co-Creating Cities Through Temporary Urbanism, focussed on exploring strategies to support citizens to participate in creating meanwhile use projects within Euston over the next 20-30 years. From 2021-2022 she was also an Associate Lecturer for MA Architecture within the Spatial Practices Department at Central Saint Martins (UAL).

She is a Director of not-for-profit critical design practice public works, a collective practice which seeks out opportunities for community-driven development to nurture and promote the rights of communities, environments and ecologies. Together with out interdisciplinary network they build long-sustained relationships based on the commonality and trust that enables co-authorship. public works use different modes of social engagement suited to a community's needs and capacities, be they playful, political, infrastructural or academic, where outputs are not limited to buildings or art objects; they incorporate discursive events, prototypes, circular systems, campaigns, governance models, food, urban strategies, and participatory art and architecture at all scales. public works are currently on the GLA's Architecture+Urbanism Framework for Lot 02: Sustainable Cities, Lot 03: High Street & Town Centre Recovery & Transformation and Lot 05: Civic, Cultural & Social Infrastructure.

Rhianon is a fully qualified Architect in the UK, registered with the ARB and holds a a Masters in Architecture from the Royal College of Art, and BSc Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. She has thirteen years of experience of working in and across commercial, academic and third sector settings.

She has previously worked with artists JAMESPLUMB, interior designer Deidra Hodgson, product designer Philippe Malouin, carpentry workshop & fabricators Aldworth James & Bond, as part of the in-house architecture team for fashion brand Burberry, with artist & design futures researcher Chris Woebken (NY), architecture & design practice LOT-EK (NY) and many others.