Contact: harriet.harriss@rca.ac.uk / 07595 717 973 / @harrietharrissAcademic qualifications:PhD in architecture: ‘Community-engaged learning for the acquisition and application of ‘practice-ready’ architectural knowledge’ | Oxford Brookes University | April 2015Kingston University, Architecture & Professional Practice (Part III) | Sept 07 | DistinctionArchitectural Association | PG(Dip) Building Conservation | July 2006 | Martin Caroe Award Royal College of Art | MA(RCA) Architecture + Interiors RIBA Part 2 | RCA Bursary | Thesis DistinctionManchester University | BA (Hons) Architecture | June 2001 | First Class

Teaching qualifications:University of the Arts London | CLTAD Supervising Research Degrees | Jan 2016 | DistinctionOxford Brookes University | PG Cert in Teaching in Higher Education | June 2010 | Distinction

Current Activities:Clore Leadership Porgramme Fellow: on secondment to the Design Museum London | Jan-April 2017Senior tutor in Interior Design & Architecture & head of PhD Program, Royal College of Art, London | Aug 2015-Education consultant | e.g. Open University, Norwich University of the Arts, Hull College, UEL and others.Word of Interiors | Emergent Practice Awards judge | 2015 onwardsExternal Examiner | Newcastle University (2016-onwards) Arts University Bournemouth (2013-16)Media commentator on design | (e.g. BBC Breakfast, Architects Journal, Monacle Radio, Radio 4 Today Program)

Previous Experience:Principal Lecturer & Program Lead | Masters in Applied Design in Architecture | Oxford Brookes | Jan 2009- Aug 2015Architecture Masters Dissertation Supervisor | Royal College of Art, London | Dec 2013 - Aug 2015Visiting Lecturer | The Architectural Association | Building Conservation Course | 2007 - 2014External Examiner | Leeds Metropolitan University (2012-2015), University of the Arts Bournemouth, (2013-)Visiting academic | Parsons New School, NYC | MFA Trans-dicisplinary Design | Aug 2012-Jan 2013Senior lecturer | Manchester School of Architecture | Jan 2008-Jan 2009Lead Architect | JCMT Architects | London | April 2008 - Dec 2008Landscape Architecture Scholar | British School Rome | Sept 2007-Jan 2008 Research project, ‘The Baroque theatre of an abandoned Roman abattoir.’Visiting tutor, University of Cambridge, Experimental drawing and film workshops, 2005 - 2006Visiting Design Tutor, Kyushu University of Fukuoka, Japan 2004Design Studio tutor, University of Manchester BA, 2003Director | Design Heroine Architecture | London | October 2004 – Sept 2007

Selected Awards & Scholarships (since 2000):2016 CLORE Fellowship - Leadership Award2016 A Design Award ‘Social’ Category: Refugee Wearable Project2013 Santander Staff Development Award & Santander Scholars Award2013 Higher Education Academy HEA Seminar Award, HEIF Award, BBC Expert Women Award.2012 Higher Education Academy (HEA) Internationalisation Fellowship Awardee2011 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Traveling Fellowship 2010-12 Oxford Brookes Associate Teaching Fellowship 2007 British Academy Landscape Architecture Fellowship2005-6 The Martin Caroe Scholarship, The Architectural Association2005 Vision 05 - Art by Architects Prize, Association of Consultant Architects2005 Lebensraume International Design Competition, Ageing Society Design Award Winner2004 Diawa Foundation Award, AND Diawa Small Grants Award (2005)2004 NESTA Creative Pioneer Award + Start Up Funding2004 IF Lebensraume (living Space) International Design Competition Winner2003 Helen Hamlyn Design for Our Future Selves Winner Age Category2003 Product of the Future Award Shortlist RCA/NESTA2003 Distinction MA thesis ‘ Driven to Cinema, the cinematic structure of a street’

Dr HARRIET HARRISS Senior tutor in interior design & architecture. Chartered Architect | PhD | MA(RCA) | Pgdip(Cons)AA | RIBA | FRSA | FHEA | ARB

2003 Thames & Hudson and RCA Society Prize2003 Wil Alsop’s Urban Strategy Prize 20032003 Time Out magazine’s ‘best contribution to student life in London’ award2003 BCA Concrete Design Competition winner: concrete wedding dress design2001 RCA Architecture & Interiors Bursary2000 Steelcase USA International Design Scholarship Awardee2000 Bradshaw Bolton Gas Scholarship 2000 Manchester School of Architecture Travel Award, & MSA History Prize

Professional Memberships/accreditation:Fellow UK Higher Education Academy (since 2011)Churchill Fellow (since 2011)Oxford Brookes Teaching Fellow (2011-12)Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (since 2007)Chartered Architect member of Royal Institute of British Architects (since 2007)RIBA Building Futures Steering Group member (since 2007)RIBA Education Validation Panel Member (2003- 2008)

Sample of publications & conference papers:Harriss, H., Morrow, R., Soane, J., Brown, B., (2016) A Gendered Profession, RIBA Publishing (Due Nov 2016)Harriss, H., (2016 )A comparative history of Live Projects within the USA & the UK: key characteristics & contemporary implications. [Chapter in ] The Routledge Companion of Architecture and Social Engagement,’ Routledge (2016)Harriss, H., (2016) [Paper & Conference Publication] Goodbye Mr Bond: 007’s critical advocacy for feminism & modernismHarriss, H. Froud, D. (2015) [Book] Radical Pedagogies: architectural education & the British Tradition, RIBA Harriss, H. Widder, L. (2014) [Book] Architecture Live projects: pedagogy into practice, Routledge UK Harriss, H. (2014) The playful pavilion: Learning from risky experimentation in real time, Open Arts Journal, Spring 2014Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Award 2012 – resulting in: Harriss, H., Penin, L., Staszowski, E., (2014) ‘Amplify Soundview: reflecting on the use of digital tools for promoting community engagement & stewardship in the development and care of the Soundview Park in New York City. MIT Lab Publication.

References: Current colleague: Professor Graeme Brooker, Royal College of Art, graeme.brooker@rca.ac.ukFormer colleague: Igea Troiani, Oxford Brookes University itroiani@brookes.ac.ukProfessional mentor: Michael Schrage, MIT Sloan Research Fellow, schrage@mit.edu

Capture it Designs on Health The Onion Project

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Award winning LiveProject

Profile:Dr Harriet Harriss is a chartered architect & senior tutor in interior design & architecture at the Royal College of Art in London. Harriet’s ‘live project’ programs partner public sector organisations with architecture students to co-create real-time designs that respond to specific community challenges. This program also enables design students to gain key professional skills during their higher education training, empowering the architects of tomorrow to achieve civic engagement and more impactful design responses. Harriet also campaigns for making architecture a better understood, more publicly inclusive and accessible profes-sion, since despite the errors of the past, Harriet believes that architects can enable people to live better lives and that the public or ‘end users’ should be given a more active role in shaping the spaces and communities in which they live and work. Her doctoral research focussed upon how architecture ‘live projects’ can enable aspiring architects to manage emergent ambigui-ties in risk exposure & decision-making: a thesis she has been testing through a range of live project initiatives & collaborations situated in both the UK and USA. These have been recognised for excellence in teaching by various awards including a Brookes Teaching Fellowship (2010-12), a Winston Churchill Fellowship (2011) and the Higher Education Academy Internationalisation Fellowship (2012). Harriet’s research and teaching are hugely informed by her professional expertise. In 2004 Harriet won a public funding commission (NESTA) to establish & co-direct Design Heroine Architecture (DHA); a niche practice that focused on public participation in architecture and co-created both innovative and responsive spatial projects and design research publi-cations. DHA also specialised in developing ‘participation prototypes,’ for a diverse range of public and private sector clients. In 2007, she was awarded a British Academy Rome Scholarship enabling her to pursue a research interest in the Baroque thea-tre of an abandoned abattoir and establishing her trajectory into academia. Since joining Oxford Brookes, Harriet has led the MArchD in Architecture program, lectured in history, theory and design, supervised undergraduate and post-graduate theses, run an international architectural education conference, published a range of academic & populist articles and papers and won five major awards, most recently the Santander Scholars Award & the Santander Staff Development Award; enabling her to run community-engaged scholarship assessment framework design workshops in the UK & USA in Spring 2014. Her innovative, interdisciplinary teaching has established collaborations between architecture & Fine Art, Drama and MBA students, the latter blending ‘design thinking’ and commercial tenacity within the same learning space. In January 2013, Harriet was selected as one of just 60 women nationally for the BBC Expert Women database project. Since then she has been on the Radio 4 Today program as been interviewed by BBC News online, and has written for Times Higher Education Magazine. A keen international collabora-tor, Harriet has twice run a flood resilient design collaboration with Oxford Brookes & New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) students, aimed at addressing the architectural challenges facing communities that were devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Har-riet’s range of academic lecture subjects and public presentations traverse issues as diverse as British social housing, the contem-porary influence of Baroque theatre and the future of architectural education.

Cultural Olympiad (Arts Council Funded) Fine Arts & Architecture collaboration (2009)

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Award Winning Student work from Design Studio teaching - Winner of Scott Brownrigg Prize & RIBA South East Award (2012)

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