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Carol Mancke
BSc MArch BAFA PhD
Carol Mancke is an artist who after many years practicing and teaching architecture, broadened into individual and collaborative art practices. She brings time, objects, images, movement, humor, hospitality and conversation into play to prompt alternative ways of participating in everyday life. Her artwork has featured in shows in Britain, Australia, the US and Japan, and her PhD research (Thinking in Public: The Affordance of Hopeless Spaces, RCA 2021) explored collaborative thinking as a public artistic practice that could build agency in the public sphere. In 2018, Carol founded machinaloci space, a place for playful research into alternative ways of being, thinking, and doing together, which she ran in Berkeley California until 2022. She will launch machinaloci space London in the spring of 2026.
Carol has been singing with the experimental choir Musarc since 2022 becoming an associate director in 2025. She has been a member of the Five Years Collective since 2023 and started practicing playback theatre with True Heart Theatre Company in 2024.
View Carol's full CVRichard Spencer
BA [Arch.] Hons., Dip. Arch.
Richard Spencer was a registered architect in the UK from 1980 until 2024 when retirement caught up with him. Richard was a practice principal for over 25 years, and from the mid-1990s lead a global spread of aviation and transportation projects. Combining a broad range of experience gained on many landmark projects with a keen interest in all things aviation related, Richard became an expert in this field and has spoken extensively at airport conferences, published articles and been interviewed on TV discussing airport design and development.
Richard’s particular skills include airport master planning, terminal planning & design and capacity analysis. His communication skills and experience of practice management has translated into strong team and project leadership abilities. Richard is fascinated by the fact that however much the challenges faced by airports around the world are similar, the most appropriate solution is invariably unique to each individual airport.
Richard was a chartered member of the RIBA throughout his career and was also an international associate of the American Institute of Architects, for whom he served two terms as president of the UK Chapter. He also served on the board of the AIA’s International Region.
